The US Army walked down a street of a Belgian town and surveyed the bodies of dead Germans lying in the snow, killed as they tried to keep the town from being recaptured by US army.

    The bodies of German soldiers killed during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II in Belgium in January 1945 against paratroopers of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division lie scattered on snow-covered streets. An American soldier walking down a snowy street in Belgium stared at the corpse of a German soldier lying in the snow, and Yenko. The German soldier was killed by a unit of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division in an attempt to prevent the town from being recaptured.

　On December 16, 1944, early in the foggy winter morning, more than 200,000 Germans and nearly 1,000 tanks launched the final bulge operation to reverse the German military decline that had begun when Allied forces landed in Normandy, France. The Germans launched their attack in the Ardennes Forest, a section of the battle line that stretched about 120 kilometers. Also known as Operation Ardennes Counteroffensive, the grueling battle lasted about six weeks from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945. Under extremely cold weather conditions and in the wooded Ardennes forest, some 30 German divisions attacked battle-weary American troops for about 137 kilometers. As the Germans invaded the Ardennes, the Allied front line took on the appearance of a great upheaval, hence the name of the Battle of the Bulge.

　Freezing rain, thick fog, deep snowdrifts, and record low temperatures brought atrocities on the American troops. More than 15,000 cold injuries, including trench foot, pneumonia, and frostbite, were reported that winter. The weather finally improved, and Allied air forces attacked on December 25, and by December 26, the German invasion was halted just before the Meuse River. The Germans began withdrawing from the Battle of the Bulge on January 8, 1945. Allied forces declared victory in the battle on January 25, 1945, and invaded toward Berlin. Within about five months the war ended with the German surrender on May 7. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, more than 1 million Allied troops fought in the Battle of the Bulge, including about 500,000 American soldiers, with about 19,000 killed in action, 47,500 wounded, and more than 23,000 missing. Approximately 100,000 German soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. It was the third deadliest battle in U.S. military history, after the Normandy landings and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I.

Alina, left; hugs her husband Andrily in a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraina, July 10, 2023. Andriy was a Ukrainian army 47 brigade air reconnaissance officer, code name, Apostle, who was heavily wounded in a battle with Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region.

   Wife Alina embraces her husband Andrily in a hospital in Kiev, Ukraine, on July 10, 2023. Andrily was an aerial reconnaissance officer of the Ukrainian Army's 47th Brigade, Operation Code Name (Apostle) Apostle, and was seriously wounded in a battle with Russian forces in the Zaporizha region. On July 12, Ukraine's Interior Minister shared one photo on Twitter, saying "more than many words. It is a photo of Andrey and his wife, Alina, who lost both eyes, both arms, and part of her hearing in the Ukrainian war. While on a combat mission, Andrey came under fire from Russian troops. One of the shells exploded at his feet. The medic who rescued him was convinced that the young man would not survive, while Andrei himself was conscious to the end and gave the order.

　On 27/23/23, heavy fighting took place in southeastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities launched a massive offensive, Russian officials said, in a marked escalation of hostilities. Ukrainian forces launched a counter-offensive with weapons supplied by NATO countries and trained troops against Russian forces that invaded some 17 months ago. The Institute for the Study of War in Washington reported that Ukrainian forces launched a major mechanized counteroffensive in western Zaporizha on July 26, breaking through Russian defensive positions. Ukrainian authorities posted video footage of a Ukrainian military group overrunning the village of Staromaiorske (Staromaiorske) in Donetsk Oblast, adjacent to Zaporizha Oblast, on July 27. Ukrainian authorities congratulated the troops for regaining control of the southeastern village.

　Russian authorities praised Russian troops for repelling an attack in the southeastern Zaporizha region. Russian authorities charged on state television that the Ukrainian troops' attack was not successful and caused many casualties. Ukrainian forces have made only incremental gains since launching their counteroffensive in early June. Russian authorities repeatedly claimed that Ukrainian forces had suffered heavy casualties without providing evidence. The Ukrainian military has deployed thousands of troops in the southeastern region over the past few days.

　U.S. officials said that the Ukrainian military has begun to deploy troops from the 10th Corps. Holding the 10th Corps in reserve, the new troops were added to the battlefield where they were able to penetrate the Russian defenses. The Ukrainian army is conserving its fighting strength and carefully breaking through the Russian minefield. The Russians have set up vast minefields to block the advance of the Ukrainian army and have attacked Ukrainian armored vehicles and artillery using fighter jets and floating ammunition. U.S. officials provided weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. They urged patience as Ukraine chipped away at Russian positions, but declined to comment on the latest developments.

Warning: Alina, left; hugs her husband Andrily in a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraina, July 10, 2023. Andriy was a Ukrainian army 47 brigade air reconnaissance officer, code name, Apostle, who was heavily wounded in a battle with Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region.(AP Photo/ Libkos, File)

Establishment and activities of the Japan-US Joint Commission: Inspections conducted at the temporary home of the Hiroshima Railroad Bureau in Ujina, November 7, 1945.

    In late September 1945, a joint U.S.-Japan survey team was formed in response to a request for medical cooperation from the U.S. In mid-October, the Hiroshima team, which had arrived in Japan and visited the city of Hiroshima, began a joint survey at the Hiroshima First Army Hospital, Ujina Branch. On November 7, 1945, medical examinations of A-bomb survivors were conducted at the temporary home of the Hiroshima Railroad Bureau in Ujina.

   On September 22, 1945, a meeting was held at the Faculty of Medicine of Tokyo Imperial University between U.S. military medical personnel and Professor Takeo Nagamiya of the Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine. As a result, "the Japan-US Joint Commission" (called "the Joint Commission" by the Americans) was formed. The members of the Japan-US Joint Commission were selected mainly by Professor Tsuzuki. The Japanese team consisted of 36 researchers and 21 medical students from various departments of the Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine, Koichi Murachi from RIKEN, and members from the Army Medical College and the Tokyo Military Hospital.

　The Hiroshima group of the joint Japanese-U.S. survey team (10 members from the U.S. side, including Colonel Mason, and 37 from the Japanese side) arrived in Hiroshima on October 12. They began their joint investigation at the Ujina Branch of the Hiroshima First Army Hospital. The American and Japanese doctors in the joint survey team worked together to examine A-bomb survivors. The first American survey was completed in September 1946, and the materials collected were brought back to the United States.

　The American side reported on the contents of the survey in the "Medical Effects of the Atomic Bombing on Japan" in the November 1946 report of the Joint Committee, and the Japanese side reported in the "Report of the Atomic Bomb Disaster Survey" of the Science Research Council of Japan.

Charred corpses of Nanjing civilians who were burned to death with oil by Japanese troops during the Nanjing Incident of the Sino-Japanese War. The burnt bodies were Chinese motorists who were killed or burned to death by Japanese bombing.

    The bodies of Nanjing civilians who were burned to death with oil by the Japanese military during the Nanjing Incident of the Sino-Japanese War have been charred. The burned bodies were documented by the Nationalist Government as Chinese nationals killed by Japanese bombing or Chinese motorists burned alive by the Japanese (Gu Jinliang, Picture Record of Japanese Invasion Savagery, 1938). The photos of the Nanking Incident that broke out in December 1937 were circulated.

　There is no evidence of fire around the burned bodies except for the burned-out cars. The carmen were obviously artificially incinerated, not by fire from bombing. His entire body was burned all over, and he was covered with fuel and burned while lying on the ground. Before they were burned, the bodies had already decomposed so severely that their limbs were stretched out horizontally instead of flexed, their legs were charred and crumpled, and their elbows were stretched out. For bodies that had been dead for a week, the limbs did not flex even after incineration because of the severe decomposition of muscle proteins. Burned corpses were not burned alive; they were burned after they had decomposed to the point of being unmanageable.

　On December 13, 1937, the invading Japanese forces invaded Nanjing, then the capital of China, and carried out a massacre that lasted approximately 40 days or more, in which vast numbers of Chinese soldiers and civilians were cruelly slaughtered. China has long characterized the Japanese atrocities as a genocide. In Japan, there have always been forces that deny the Nanking Massacre. As Japanese politics and society have shifted to the right, the movement to deny the Nanking Massacre has gained strength again. In December 1937, at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, when the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the city of Nanjing in the Republic of China, they killed, looted, raped, and set fire to numerous ROC prisoners of war, defeated soldiers, soldiers in uniform, and civilians over a two-month period.

　Japanese forces burned and looted everywhere they invaded, leaving Chinese cities in ruins and their former homes in ruins. Incinerated corpses, the atrocities of the Japanese military, were shown in images of their frenzied incineration and looting. The evil Japanese invaders burned various parts of China to the ground. After the bombings, the Japanese set fire again, dropping incendiary bombs of high heat and fire-inducing oil incessantly on the densely populated cities. Burning again and again, thousands of years of Chinese heritage were destroyed. Buried in the flames, the Chinese people were met with inhuman and tragic slaughter. The atrocities committed by arson are more grievous than those committed by bandits and robbers.

On the Eastern Front of World War II, in October 1941, a Soviet artilleryman was killed beside a ZiS-3 gun, scattering the bodies of a very young Soviet crewman who had fallen. A shell had hit the gun and the shrapnel had destroyed the rubber on the slope, damaging the gun.

   On the Eastern Front of World War II, in October 1941, a Soviet artilleryman was killed beside a ZiS-3 gun, scattering the bodies of a very young Soviet crewman who had fallen. The shells had hit and the debris had destroyed the rubber on the slope and damaged the guns.

　The Battle of Rzhev was a series of attacks by the Soviet Red Army against the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II, from January 8, 1942, to March 31, 1943. The fighting took place in the northeastern part of Smolensk Oblast and the southern part of Tver Oblast. The losses to the Soviet forces were so severe that it was dubbed Operation Rzhev Meat Grinder. The Soviet Red Army, driven back to the outskirts of Moscow, launched a counter-offensive against the Germans and began to invade toward Vyazima in the Battle of Rzhev. Leaving only the Rzhev area, the Soviets pushed their front line back to the west, and another attack was launched against the remaining German thrust. In the fierce fighting, all the buildings in Rzhev were destroyed, and more than one-sixth of its population was sent to Germany to be forced into labor. About 9,000 other civilians were shot and tortured. They starved to death in concentration camps set up in the center of Rzhev.

　The German Armed SS (SS) soldiers were separated from active political thought by a harsh and ruthless ideology for an indefinite period of time. Motivated by loyalty to Führer Hitler and the belief in the victory of the Fatherland, the armed SS troops invaded swamps and forests unimpeded by the Russian invasion. The heroic deeds and sacrifices recorded in this gripping battlefield tale. The SS Armed Forces earned their place in the voluminous records of World War II. Whether in the South, Central, or Northern Army Groups, where the Soviets had recovered from their initial wounds and defended themselves to the death, where Soviet counterattacks had torn holes in the German lines, the SS Armed Forces were ordered into action.

　The SS Armed Forces took the lead of all German forces. It gained a bridgehead on the Dnieper River, defeated the Soviet defense of Crimea at Perekop, attacked Taganlok, and invaded Rostov. The armed SS reached the shores of the Sea of Azov in pursuit of the Soviet troops. South of Borodino, they broke through the Soviet defenses of Moscow and advanced to within a few kilometers of the capital, Warsaw, where, at the end of 1941, for the first time, the Soviet Army launched a major counterattack, and the SS Armed Forces showed an exertion unparalleled in military history. It withstood heavy Soviet fire and repelled a flood of tanks and infantry groups. The SS Armed Forces demonstrated its military prowess as a fire extinguisher for the German Army of the East.

During the Battle of Peleliu Island in the Pacific War, the Japanese garrison tried to destroy the American forces at the water's edge, and two American Marines who finally reached the shade of a tree were also shot dead by the Japanese.

    During the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific War, the Japanese garrison aimed to destroy the American forces on the Orange Coast at the water's edge. In order to destroy the American forces at the water's edge, the Japanese were ordered to bomb the area as close as possible. These two Marines were also shot dead by Japanese snipers at the point where they finally reached the shade of the trees. The American soldier, hiding behind a palm tree, lifted his pistol with both hands and struggled to aim. One after another, Japanese soldiers charged the beach, knocking them down one by one. On the beach, a battle of combat ensued between friend and foe. Without time to take aim with light machine guns and rifles, friend and foe alike simply pulled the trigger.

　The U.S. forces landed on Peleliu Island at 8:00 a.m. on September 15, 1944. American soldiers, supported by naval gunfire, landing craft and amphibious tanks, came up the beach. When the U.S. Marines reached the beach, they were met with an unexpectedly fierce counterattack by the Japanese. The only amphibious tanks were set aflame, and they had no choice but to hide behind landing craft that had come up on the beach.

　Not only did they shoot at each other at close range, but they also threw grenades at each other. Although they landed on the beach, heavy Japanese fire made it difficult for them to advance. Artillery bombardment knocked down all the palm trees, and the enemy lines were unknown, so it became a kill-or-be-killed hand-to-hand combat, and they fired as long as the bullets lasted.

　The first line of the U.S. front line was littered with black soldiers, many of whom had been killed in action. As a squall peculiar to the South Seas passed over Peleliu Island, the coastline was washed away by the thick smoke of gunpowder and the foul smell of gunpowder, and the bodies of both friend and foe were piled up, burned by the sun and washed away by the white waves. The number of corpses was clearly greater than that of the camouflaged American soldiers. In the first landing operation on Peleliu Island, the U.S. forces lost about 60 landing craft, three Sherman tanks, and 26 amphibious tanks, and suffered more than 1,000 casualties, forcing a temporary retreat after 8:00 am.

　Built of concrete or coral reefs, Japanese air defense shelters and gun emplacements were located all along the coast, and mines and landmines were laid in tight rows both on the sea and on land. The crossed roads were heavily defended with anti-tank guns and automatic weapons. Suddenly, the soldier beside me stopped moving, and the soldier who had been talking not long before no longer knew who was who. The attack on Peleliu Island became a total hellish battle, as the soldiers had to bury their heads in the sand, keep their feet high and their heads low to avoid the balls of the enemy.

　The battle for Peleliu Island was so fierce that after the U.S. forces captured Peleliu Island, they named the western shore (West Beach) of the landing point Orange Beach. The reason for this was that the blood of the soldiers on both sides had turned the white coral beach orange. Orange Beach has now become the official name of Peleliu Island. The Peleliu operation ended on November 27, although the U.S. military publicly stated that it would be over in three days. The U.S. forces lost approximately 2,236 killed, 8,450 wounded, and 2,500 sick in action, while the Japanese forces lost approximately 10,022 killed and 446 wounded in action.

On January 26, 1943, a number of wounded German soldiers were left in a snowdrift and froze to death during an offensive to break through the Soviet siege in the village of Nikolayevka.

   On the Eastern Front of World War II, the Battle of Nikolayevka was a siege breakthrough by Italian forces in January 1943 during the offensive over the Battle of Stalingrad. Near the village of Nikolayevka (now Livenka, Belgorod Oblast, Russia), the Alpini (Mountain) Corps of the Italian 8th Army broke through the Soviet siege, and on January 26, 1943, a number of wounded German soldiers were left in a snowdrift in the village of Nikolayevka to freeze to death in an offensive to break through the Soviet siege. They were left behind and froze to death. The frozen bodies were left on the snowy battlefield to become road gravel. The photographs were taken by Galina Sanko (Galina Sanko), a female Soviet Army photographer, and published in Leningrad, 1942.

　On December 16, 1942, Soviet forces launched Operation Small Saturn, targeting the Italian Eighth Army. The Soviets forced their way across along the Don River and surrounded the Italian Eighth Army, cutting it off from the German Army Group A fighting in the Caucasus On December 16, Soviet forces attacked the Italian Eighth Army, which was quickly destroyed. The Soviet forces moved rapidly south into the Black Sea.

　The Alpini Corps of the Italian Army did not receive an offensive from the Soviet Army on its right wing; on January 13, 1943, the Soviets attacked, surrounded, and destroyed the Hungarian II Army near Svoboda on the Don River northwest of the Italian Army in Operation Saturn. They pushed back the remaining German units on the Alpini left flank and surrounded the Italian Alpine Corps; on the night of January 17, the Italian Alpine Corps was ordered to withdraw completely. Only the Tridentina Division was able to carry out combat operations. The Italian Army's Alpini Corps, plus German and Hungarian troops, a group of about 40,000 men, supported by a handful of German armored vehicles, headed west toward the Axis lines.

　On the morning of January 26, the Tridentina Division reached the village of Nikolaevka, where Soviet troops fortified the railroad embankments on both sides. At 9:30 a.m., the Italian Alpine Corps and German troops began their attack. By noon, Italian troops reached the outskirts of the village of Nikolaevka. By sunset, the Italian Alpine Corps struggled to break through the reinforced Soviet lines. Using manpower tactics, the Italians attacked Soviet positions and broke through the Soviet lines. The surviving Italian units were able to break through the Soviet encirclement and withdraw from the combat zone.

　On February 1, the remnants of the Italian Army's Arpi Corps returned to the Axis lines. The Cunense Division was destroyed, only one-tenth of the Giulia Division (about 1,200 men out of about 15,000) survived, and only one-third of the Tridentina Division (about 4,250 men out of about 15,000). The Vicenza Division, which counted about 10,466 men at the start of the Soviet offensive, lost about 7,760 men killed or missing in action. In total, the Italian Alpine Legion, which numbered about 57,000 men at the start of the battle, lost 34,170 killed in action and 9,400 wounded. Soviet casualties were approximately 1,000.

Ottoman troops who suppressed the Ilinden uprising by Macedonian nationalists that broke out in 1903 posed proudly with the heads of the rebels they had killed by beheading in front of them.

   Ottoman troops who crushed the Ilinden uprising by Macedonian nationalists that broke out in 1903 posed proudly with the heads of the rebels they had killed by beheading in front of them. They fought tirelessly to liberate Macedonia, which had been under Ottoman rule. Beheadings were highly valued in medieval Europe. In the 20th century, beheadings were perceived as inhumane and barbaric by Western civilization. Today, capital beheadings were only carried out in the Middle Eastern countries of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran.

　In August 1903, the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising broke out. About 26,408 rebels fought a life-or-death battle against some 350,000 Turkish regular and irregular troops. After about three months of resistance, the uprising was crushed in blood. About 994 rebels were killed or wounded in battle and 4,694 civilians were killed. The Ottoman army suffered about 5,328 killed and wounded in battle.　

　As the power of the Ottoman Empire declined in the 19th century, nationalist ideology spread, causing unrest throughout the Balkans. Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, and others established their own schools and built ethnic identity based on language. The Bulgarian and Serbian Orthodox Churches became independent from the Greek Orthodox Church. Slavs in the Balkans were able to go to churches that preached in Slavic rather than Greek. The concept of nationality began to emerge in the Balkans: as a result of uprisings and wars in the 19th century, the kingdoms of Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria became independent from the Ottoman Empire. Macedonia remained within the territory of the Ottoman Empire.

　In 1893, Slavic revolutionaries living in Macedonia in the Ottoman Empire founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO), a political revolutionary organization that aimed for the independence of the Macedonian region and its inhabitants. the VMRO was open to any resident of the Macedonian region, regardless of ethnicity or religion, but was mainly With the establishment of the VMRO, a new Macedonian ethnicity was created, separate from the Bulgarian and Greek ethnicity that had been established on the basis of linguistic and religious divisions.

　The VMRO launched a massive uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1903. It was called the Ilinden Uprising. The Ilinden Uprising spread throughout Macedonia. It was quickly crushed by the Ottoman army, and the VMRO split into two groups: one that continued to insist on Macedonian independence, and a more radical group based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, that sought to annex the country to Bulgaria.

　In the 1910s, the Balkans were embroiled in wars, including the First World War. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire, with the loss of all but the territory of the modern Republic of Turkey, brought major changes to the entire Balkan Peninsula; in 1918, with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which dominated Central Europe, the southern tip of the Ottoman Empire, populated primarily by Slavs, united with the Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia was established. With the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Macedonia was divided, with the territory of the modern Republic of North Macedonia becoming part of Yugoslavia, the southern part of Macedonia becoming part of Greece, and the northwestern part becoming part of Bulgaria. Under Yugoslavia, the territory of Macedonia was renamed South Serbia, and the language was considered a Serbian dialect.

　After World War II, in 1946, the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was established as one of the six states comprising the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the territory of the modern-day Republic of North Macedonia. Apart from the Serbian, Bulgarian, and Greek churches, a Macedonian Orthodox church was also established. A national consciousness was created in the new country, and the inhabitants of Macedonia, which fell on the territory of Greece and Bulgaria, were gradually assimilated into their respective nationalities.

The fields and roadsides to the village of Strozewe, Donetsk Oblast, which was liberated by Ukrainian forces, were littered with dead crew members and burned armored vehicles in the neighborhood of destroyed Russian tanks.

  On June 12, 2023, the Ukrainian military announced the liberation of the village of Storozheve, Donetsk Oblast, which had been under Russian occupation since March 2022. The fields and roadsides leading to the liberated village of Storozheve were littered with dead crew members and burned armored vehicles in the neighborhood of destroyed Russian tanks. The Ukrainian military reported that about 50 Russian soldiers were killed in action during the liberation sweep, and four were taken prisoner. In the village of Strozewe itself, houses damaged by shelling can be seen. 

Warning: The body of a Russian soldier is seen near a destroyed Russian tank near the front line in the newly liberated village Storozheve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 14, 2023. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

   Russian counties claimed to have thwarted a major offensive on June 4, which they considered the start date of the Ukrainian counteroffensive; on June 5, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense said the Ukrainian military had carried out offensive actions in several directions. The American Institute for the Study of War announced that Ukrainian forces launched a broad counterattack on June 4; on June 6, the Kahoka Dam on the Dnipro River in Herzon Oblast was breached.

　According to a project of the BBC in the UK and the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, the war with Ukraine has resulted in the deaths of some 25,528 Russian soldiers. About 2,498 of them were mobilized. The casualties included about 2,150 more officers in the Russian military and other law enforcement agencies. About 161 military pilots were also confirmed dead. A joint project of the BBC in the UK and Mediazona in Russia published on June 16, 2023. Only those deaths identified by publicly available sources, such as documents, messages from relatives, and grave data, were analyzed. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not published data on human losses and does not comment on figures reported by journalists.

　It noted that the largest number of casualties were prisoners. The highest number of deaths were from the Krasnodar-Krai, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Bashkiria, Buryatia, and Volgograd regions. The highest number of deaths were from the Buryatia, Buryatia, Volgograd, and Volgograd regions.

  A dead Russian soldier is examined near the front line in the newly liberated village of Strozewe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, June 14, 2023 (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak). Strozewe village is one of the settlements near the Mokry Yary River, where some of the corpses of Russian soldiers were left in a marshy area in a nearby field.

Warning: The body of a Russian soldier is seen near the front line in the newly liberated village Storozheve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 14, 2023. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

A young Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's younger brother was lying on a bed in a hospital room at the Omura Naval Hospital, and his sister, dressed in a monpe, visited him. The younger brother had burns on his face and forearms from the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

   The Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 9, 1945; on the day of August 9, approximately 758 atomic bomb survivors were admitted to the Omura Naval Hospital in the town of Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture. Thereafter, when the survivors from the relief station in Nagasaki City were included, more than 1,000 survivors were housed at the hospital. A young Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's younger brother lay on a bed in a hospital room at the Omura Naval Hospital, and his sister, dressed in a monpe, visited him. The younger brother had burns on his face and forearms from the Nagasaki atomic bomb.　

　During the Pacific War, Nagasaki Prefecture was a naval base. Nagasaki City had munitions factories, Sasebo City had the Sasebo Naval Base, and Omura City had the Naval Air Force. And the Omura Naval Hospital housed Japanese soldiers who had been wounded in the war. On a flat area near the Sasebo township, the Omura Naval Air Station was the closest air base to the continent, with an airstrip on the beach in Omura-cho, Higashisonogi-gun (now Omura City), Nagasaki Prefecture.

　The Wartime Disaster Relief and Protection Law stipulated that relief stations were to be open for no more than two months, and from around mid-October, relief stations in various parts of Nagasaki City were closed. The A-bomb survivors were taken to Nagasaki Station, put on trains, and transported to the Omura Naval Hospital, which had served as a base for housing A-bomb survivors since immediately after the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The Omura Naval Hospital, which stood on a small hill in Kuhara, Omura-cho, Higashisonogi-gun, Nagasaki Prefecture, rescued more than a thousand A-bomb survivors.

　On August 9, 1945, about 758 atomic bomb survivors were admitted to the Omura Naval Hospital following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki City. The doctors who had been in charge of treatment immediately after the war ended were evacuated. The remaining doctors also became disabled for work, and by the end of August, approximately 450 severely injured A-bomb survivors had been discharged from the hospital, leaving only about three hospitalized patients as of October in a hospital that had a capacity of about 2,000. At that time, Nagasaki Medical College (former Nagasaki Medical School), which had been damaged by the atomic bomb, moved its classrooms to the Omura Naval Hospital. The Nagasaki Medical College (former Nagasaki Medical School), which had been damaged by the Nagasaki atomic bomb at the time, moved its classrooms to the Omura Naval Hospital. In December 1945, the hospital was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and became the National Omura Hospital under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In April 2001, the name was changed to the current National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center.

During the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, February 25, 1945, American soldiers advance low through the cutting Japanese machine guns as the body of a Japanese soldier, killed in an attack an hour earlier, lies on the ground.

   During the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, Japanese machine gun bullets cut through trees above the heads of American soldiers during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 25, 1945. Through them, American soldiers advanced low, carrying rifles. An hour earlier, the body of a Japanese soldier, killed and mortally wounded in an attack by advancing U.S. Marines, lay on the ground on Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was the most heavily defended by the Japanese in the Pacific War, with some 20,000 soldiers, both American and Japanese, falling dead or wounded.

  On the same day, February 25, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, U.S. Marine combat engineer soldiers fired artillery shells that blasted Japanese defensive positions on Iwo Jima. Many Japanese defensive positions had Japanese soldiers returning to their trenches to fire on the flanks of the U.S. Marines.

    The U.S. 3rd Marines landed on February 24 and invaded the relatively flat center of the northern Iwo Jima plateau. The sandstone of Iwo Jima's plateau had been destroyed by wind, rain, and volcanic upheaval, and at about 9:30 a.m. on February 25, the Marines began their attack, striking the main Japanese defensive line. Marine artillery shells were fired. Flame-throwing tanks incinerated Japanese soldiers in bulletproof tunnels. Continuous attacks finally cracked the Japanese lines: on February 26, they attacked the Japanese defensive position at 382 Highland, a field artillery and anti-tank position north of Mount Suribachi; on the night of February 27, they seized the twin hills north of Airfield 2; on the afternoon of February 28, they overran the ruins of Motoyama Village, the hill dominating Airfield 3; and on March 1, they captured the hill dominating Airfield 2. and on March 1, they recaptured the 382nd high ground in a desperate struggle.

　The casualties of the Battle of Iwo Jima were approximately 21,000 American casualties, one escort carrier sunk, 30 ships wrecked, and about 168 fighter planes damaged. On the Japanese side, about 23,000 men of the entire garrison were annihilated and crushed to ashes. 

German soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice during the siege of Bastogne, and huge numbers of dead soldiers littered the battlefield. The Germans were unable to break through the American defenses of the besieged Bastogne.

    In the final battle of the Western Front of World War II, the siege of Bastogne in southern Belgium, a key battle in the Battle of the Bulge, broke out on December 20, 1944, after the first snowfall. German artillery shelled Bastogne, also targeting the surrounding forests. American paratroopers were hiding in the forests. With the paratroopers surrounded and out of the running, the Germans cut off the supply of American troops. German soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, and huge numbers of dead soldiers littered the snow-covered battlefield. The Germans were unable to break through the encircling American defenses in Bastogne.

　On December 21, snowfall made the situation even more difficult. German tanks were unable to advance and continued to shell Bastogne. American soldiers struggled in shelters whose walls were covered with ice. With no way to keep warm, many American soldiers became ill or suffered frostbite. However, the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division continued to repel the German onslaught, even sending out reconnaissance and combat patrols.

　The German local command demanded that the Germans withdraw from the Ardennes Forest. Hitler ordered the continued deployment of reserves. The Germans continued to be in a critical situation during the Bastogne offensive. In Bastogne, the situation remained critical, and repeated attacks forced the German defenders to retreat; on December 22, German General Lüttwitz raised the white flag and demanded that the besieged defenders surrender on honorable terms. "NUTS!"(Go to hell) was the legendary reply from American General Anthony McAuliffe, and on December 23, with the expected good weather, the first supplies could be airlifted, and the Allies launched numerous air raids on the German positions. The situation remained desperate, and by Christmas on December 24, the perimeter had been reduced to 26 kilometers.

   With only minor reinforcements and supplies, the Germans were increasingly battered by the Allied air force, and on Christmas Day, December 24, the Germans pulled out all the stops, but their tanks, which had only just arrived, suffered heavy losses and were unable to penetrate the defensive line. The German siege was broken when the 4th Armored Division of the 3rd U.S. Army advanced from the south and joined the garrison on December 26 at 4:45 p.m. In the bitter winter of 1944, the siege over Bastogne, a town with a population of 4,000 and seven connecting roads, cost the Americans about 3,000 more casualties, while German casualties is unknown. 

In the Vietnam War, Dickie Chapelle, a 47-year-old female war photographer, was killed by an exploding land mine on November 4, 1965, while covering American troops fighting in South Vietnam.

Dickey Chapelle, a 47-year-old war photographer, was killed in the Vietnam War by an exploding landmine while covering American troops fighting in South Vietnam. and fragments of the mine shot out her body. She became the first American woman correspondent to die in the Vietnam War. When I die," she said, "I want to be on patrol with the U.S. Marines. Her final death was reportedly "meant to happen."

   Dickie Chappell was killed in action during Operation Black Ferret while on patrol with a Marine platoon 16 kilometers south of Chu Lai, Quang Ngai Province, on November 4, 1965, at approximately 8:00 AM. It was a search and destroy operation by the Marines in the vicinity of Chu Lai. Chapelle was hit in the neck by a shrapnel wound that severed her carotid artery and she died shortly after. Her final moments were captured in a photograph by Henri Huet (Henri Huet). Her body was brought home with a guard of honor consisting of six Marines, and was given a respectful burial by the Marines. The Marines gave her full military honors.

　Dickie Chappell photographed the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal William Fenton (William Fenton) lies on a stretcher, badly wounded, awaiting medical attention aboard the USS Samaritan hospital ship, which was anchored just off the beach at Iwo Jima. Chapelle explained that 551 seriously wounded Marines boarded that ship and attempted to save their lives. Iwo Jima was one of the fiercest battles of World War II, with 6,821 Marines killed and 19,217 wounded, while the Japanese lost about 21,000 killed and only 216 captured.

　

   Dickie Chapelle was one of the founding female battlefield correspondents in World War II. Chappell traveled from a hospital ship to an uninhabited island in Okinawa to cover Marines rescuing the wounded in a massive attack. The Navy was not pleased and she was kicked out of the Okinawa war at gunpoint. War photos were obtained, two of which were of Marine Johnny Hood (Johnny Hood) before and after receiving a 14-pint blood transfusion at a field hospital in Okinawa, spurring a blood drive.

　

A Japanese soldier kneels beside the body of a comrade Japanese soldier killed by German troops during the siege of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, Oct. 1, 1914, during World War I.

    A Japanese soldier kneels beside the body of a comrade Japanese soldier killed by German troops during the siege of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, Oct. 1, 1914, in World War I. A British soldier looks on as he stands over the body of a Japanese soldier lying on his back as British troops fought alongside Japanese forces in Qingdao, China, in the fall of 1914. After a two-month siege, Qingdao finally fell in November. Japanese casualties were approximately 733 dead and 1,282 wounded. The British forces lost about 12 dead and 53 wounded. German troops suffered approximately 199 killed and 504 wounded.

　While fighting was taking place on the Western and Eastern fronts in Europe, minor battles broke out between Allied and German forces in various parts of the world. In the Far East, the Allies invaded the German naval base at Qingdao, China. The British had long viewed the German presence in China as a threat to British interests; allied with Japan since 1902, Japan had territorial ambitions on the Asian continent.

 　Even before the war began, the Japanese were preparing to lay siege to Qingdao, and on August 15, 1914, they issued an ultimatum to Germany demanding that it withdraw its warships from Chinese and Japanese territorial waters and hand over Qingdao.  The British decided to dispatch a naval force defending Tianjin in northern China and about 1,500 British soldiers to join the Japanese forces in the vicinity of Qingdao Harbor. The Japanese forces laid siege to Qingdao Harbor with the first air attack from ships and the first nighttime air raid. They gradually invaded the trenches while weakening the Germans with heavy howitzers. The Germans fought an endurance battle for about two months and surrendered on November 7. Three days later, the port of Qingdao was handed over and occupied by the Japanese.

   Seizing the opportunity, Japan entered the war and occupied Qingdao, which had been leased by Germany. After taking control of the Shandong Peninsula, Japan presented Chinese President Yuan Shikai with twenty-one demands in five items. These included: the transfer of German concessions in Shandong Province to Japan; the extension of the concession periods for Lushun, Dalian, and the Manchurian Railway for 99 years; a request for concessions in Inner Mongolia; and the appointment of Japanese advisors to the Chinese government. After 25 rounds of negotiations, Yuan Shikai yielded to Japanese pressure. The Chinese people were so outraged that they called the day of acceptance of his demands "National Shame Day" and launched a boycott campaign against Japanese products. 

According to a statistical analysis of Russian soldier deaths, from February 2022 to May 2023, nearly 50,000 Russian men in the Russian military died in the war with Ukraine.

    According to a statistical analysis of the number of Russian soldiers killed in action, nearly 50,000 Russian men died in the war against Ukraine. on March 27, 2022, the body of a Russian soldier who died during a battle with Ukrainian forces in a cornfield in Sitniki, outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev. lay in a cornfield.

Warning: A Russia soldier killed during combats against Ukrainian army lay on a corn field in Sysnyaky, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March, 26,2022. (AP Photo/ Rodrigo Abd, file)

    

   Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, collaborated with the University of Tübingen, Germany, on a study of war fatalities. Using Russian government data, they made a statistical estimate of the number of Russian soldiers killed in the most secretive invasion of Ukraine, conforming to statistical methods for excess mortality prevalent in the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Based on inheritance records and official mortality data, we estimated more deaths than in the normal period for men under about 50 years of age from February 2022 to May 2023.

　Both the Russian and Ukrainian armies have kept military death tolls secret. The number of deaths on the enemy side was amplified and propagated. The Russian military officially acknowledged only the deaths of about 6,000-plus Russian soldiers. Reports of the military death toll were censored and suppressed. Publicizing the death toll was an anti-national act and faced criminal charges.

　MediaZona and Meduza, in cooperation with Russian networks, built a database of war dead using social networking posts and photos from cemeteries across Russia, confirming the deaths of approximately 27,423 Russian soldiers as of July 7, 2023. We estimated the number of war dead that the Russian government persistently concealed. Mediazona and Meduza obtained records of inheritance cases filed with Russian authorities. The national probate registry contained information on more than 11 million deaths from 2014 through May 2023; about 25,000 more inheritance cases for men aged 15-49 occurred in 2022 than expected; by May 27, 2023, the excess number had jumped to about 47,000 cases; and by May 27, 2023, the number of deaths had increased to about 1,000.

　About 20,000 more Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since December 2022, roughly in line with a May assessment by U.S. authorities. The overall number of Russian servicemen killed is lower than the number of American and British intelligence agencies' deaths in the war. The British Defense Ministry estimated in February 2023 that some 40,000 to 60,000 Russians had been killed in action. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that about 35,000 to 43,000 Russians died in the first year of the war. The British Ministry of Defense estimated on July 10 that many casualties (including amputations) by Russian forces averaged about 400 casualties per day over a period of about 17 months.

　Age and sex-specific mortality data for 2022 were obtained from Rosstat, Russia's official statistics agency; 24,000 more men under 50 died in 2022 than expected, consistent with the inheritance data analysis. Missing from the count are Russians who are not officially certified as dead, and Ukrainian citizens fighting in units of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk Republics. Uncertainty is in the thousands, and the overall results of the estimates are reasonable.

　Asked by the Associated Press on July 10 about the Meduza and Medyazona studies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the number of deaths in the study, privileging only the Russian Defense Ministry. Meduza is an independent Russian media outlet, headquartered in Riga, Latvia, that has been operating in exile for about eight years; in April 2021, Russian authorities designated Meduza as a foreign agent, making advertising revenue difficult; in January 2023, the Russian government expelled Meduza as an illegal organization. Russian authorities blocked the independent media outlet Zona from its website after a full invasion of Ukraine.

   The body of a Russian soldier killed in battle in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, was dumped and disemboweled by Russian forces. Ukrainian search parties searched for identities from the dead bodies and remains of Ukrainian and Russian troops.

Warning: The Remains of one of the Russian soldiers killed in battles and abondoned by Russian troops in Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, December 21, 2022. Volunteera of a Ukrainian search GRoup looed for the remains of Ukrainian and Russian servicemen to identified them.(AP photo/ Andrily Andriyenko, Files)

From October to November 1971, the remains of seven bodies of the atomic bomb victims were exhumed and offered to their relatives at the Ninoshima Junior High School Agricultural Training Site in Ninoshima, Hiroshima.

　　From October to November 1971, the remains of seven bodies of the atomic bomb victims were exhumed and offered to their relatives at the Ninoshima Junior High School Agricultural Training Site in Ninoshima, Hiroshima. As a result of the full-scale excavation work, approximately 600 remains and 62 articles were also found. During the war, Ninoshima Island was a quarantine station for soldiers and military horses from overseas. After the atomic bombing, the island became an internment camp. Nearly 10,000 A-bomb survivors who had been injured by the bombing were brought to the island. In 1955, approximately 2,000 remains were moved to the War Memorial in Hiroshima Peace Park. It could not be assumed how many remains were still latent in Hiroshima, and many families still searched for the remains of their relatives.

　On September 15, 1894, before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Headquarters was moved from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Emperor Meiji arrived in Hiroshima, and on October 18, a temporary Imperial Diet meeting was held, making Hiroshima the temporary capital of Japan. Japanese soldiers from all over Japan converged on Hiroshima, leaving from Ujina Port and returning home. In 1904, when the Russo-Japanese War broke out, the number of quarantine cases was five times that of the Sino-Japanese War, and a second quarantine station (disinfection station) was added, with a daily processing capacity of approximately 8,000 corpses, making it a large-scale quarantine station.

　From the summer of 1944, a training base for suicide attacks, such as the Marine Paratroopers, was established. Educational training was conducted using small plywood boats. The Fukaura area and part of the quarantine station were used for educational training for maritime suicide attack units of Type 4 meat attack boats (marure) and semi-submersible attack boats (maru-hase), which were loaded with drum explosives and assaulted enemy ships. The 10th Education Corps of the Army Ship Training Department, a secret unit, conducted educational training on Ninoshima Island.

　Immediately after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, the Japanese Army Ship Command (commonly known as the "Dawn Unit") selected the Ninoshima Quarantine Station to treat seriously injured A-bomb survivors. The Ninoshima Quarantine Station became a temporary field hospital, where A-bomb survivors were treated. On August 6, A-bomb survivors who had been exposed to the bombing in Hiroshima were brought to Ninoshima by boat one after another from around 10:00 a.m. The A-bomb survivors were brought to Ninoshima by boat at regular intervals. A-bomb survivors were transported at all times. Soldiers of the Dawn Unit, boy suicide attackers, and others carried out frantic internment, treatment, and nursing duties day and night. The islanders of Ninoshima also devoted themselves to relief efforts. The number of A-bomb survivors interned was estimated to be about 10,000. Based on testimonies and the number of remains that had been excavated, it was estimated that approximately 70% of the A-bomb survivors transported to the site had died.

　After the Hibakusha died, cremation began around August 10. Due to the rapid increase in the number of deaths, there was no longer time to cremate the bodies. Many bodies, whose identities remained unknown, were buried in the ground at various locations on the premises of the adjacent Army Horse Quarantine Station. After the war, the remains of A-bomb survivors were frequently collected, and in September 1945, quarantine station employees and others collected the remains and erected a memorial tower (a thousand-people mound) on the premises of the Mako Quarantine Station. Later, in July 1955, approximately 2,000 remains from Ninoshima were enshrined in the Hiroshima City Memorial Tower for the War Victims in Peace Memorial Park.

 

During the Korean War, a Korean mother evacuated with a heavy load on her head and shoulders caused her young Korean daughter, who was exhausted from hunger and collapsed on the ground, to try to save her.

　　During the Korean War, a Korean mother, evacuated with a heavy load on her head and shoulders, caused her young Korean daughter, exhausted from hunger, to fall on the ground to help her. The mother's eyes looked around her, wary of what was going on and tense with anxiety during the Korean War. After several days of long-distance evacuation from North Korea to South Korea, one young Korean girl sat at her mother's feet, exhausted and malnourished. Exhausted and unable to support herself any longer, the Korean girl lost consciousness. The mother, who had been evacuated from the Korean War, continued to call out the Korean girl's name, causing her daughter's body to fall, despite the many bags she was carrying, but she did not give up.

　U.S. Army service members take photos as they join the U.S. 2nd Armored Division and 7th Infantry Division at Pyeongtaek and Wolsan after landing on Incheon Wolweo Island, Korea, on September 17, 1950, on their way into Seoul via Suwon sex. The photographs, obtained through the East Asia Representative Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), vividly depict the suffering of evacuees leaving on distant roads, the treatment of the wounded, and the misery of parents taking care of their children in the chaos. Through the war photographs, visitors could see firsthand the horrors of war and feel why war must disappear from this land and why a world of peace must come.

　　 The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army, with the support of the Soviet Union and its military buildup, invaded south from the entire 38th parallel. In just three days, they occupied the capital, Seoul. Led by the United States, UN troops were dispatched by the UN Security Council. UN forces recaptured Seoul and invaded as far as the Yalu River in the Incheon Landing Operation on September 15. Chinese troops intervened in the Korean War, again sacking the capital, Seoul, which ended primarly on July 27, 1953, with an armistice agreement. The total number of refugees from the Korean War was about 10.41 million, equivalent to half of the population. The number of casualties (killed in action and missing in action) in the Korean War was approximately 987,000 South Korean troops and 1.43 million civilians, while approximately 926,000 North Korean troops and 2 million civilians were killed. About 150,000 UN troops, 183,000 Chinese volunteer troops, and 720,000 civilian Chinese were killed.

 

During the first Chechen conflict, a Chechen woman was shot dead by Russian troops on a street in the capital Grozny. Russian troops massacred the Chechen woman by shooting her mercilessly. Her cat watched by her side over the woman's bloody corpse.

　　During the first Chechen conflict, a Chechen woman was shot dead by Russian troops on a street in the capital Grozny. Russian troops massacred the Chechen woman by shooting her mercilessly. Her cat watched by her side over the woman's bloody corpse.

　The First Chechen Conflict was a conflict in which Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, suppressed the Chechen independence movement from December 11, 1994 to August 31, 1996. The first conflict ended in a humiliating defeat for Russian forces, and Chechnya was devastated. The Chechen Republic, with a population of approximately 1.05 million, suffered between 40,000 and 80,000 deaths, 200,000 injuries, and hundreds of thousands of people became migrants and refugees. Cities, towns, and villages disappeared, and Chechen citizens were subjected to widespread atrocities by Russian troops and Chechen rebels and armed factions. The majority of Grozny's Chechen population fled to the countryside where they could connect with their families, leaving the mainly ethnic Russian population in the city with nowhere to go.

　The first Chechen conflict was a result of the instability that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ethnic minority ethnic republics claimed their independence. In Chechnya, the Soviet Union deported large numbers of Chechens to Central Asia in 1943 and 1944. Former Soviet Air Force General Dzhokhar Dudaev seized power and declared the Chechen Republic independent in 1991. When the Chechen government failed to comply with President Yeltsin's ultimatum of November 29, 1994, Russian forces were ordered to retake Chechnya. The first Chechen conflict began on December 11, 1994, with a Russian military bombing campaign that attacked towns and cities in the region.

　In the first phase of the conflict, approximately 25,000 Russian troops invaded Chechnya on December 11, 1994, from three sides. Russian troops encountered ambushes and tactical retreats by Chechen forces in mountainous and forested areas. It took until December 25 to reach the capital, Grozny. The Russians proceeded to Grozny on New Year's Eve in a disastrous abbreviation. The Russians were decimated as soon as they entered the city, killing or wounding approximately 2,000 people in about 60 hours. Russian units were abandoned during the retreat.

　The Russians struck again at Grozny in January 1995 with a force of about 40,000 men. Airstrikes and artillery systematically destroyed Grozny district by district, and the Russian invasion was delayed after the artillery bombardment began on January 4. Chechen insurgents used urban guerrilla tactics, with small units moving out of their bunkers to ambush Russian troops. It took until February 8 to drive the last Chechen fighters out of the city. In Grozny alone, some 27,000 civilians were killed during the nearly five-week conflict, representing about 6% of the total civilian population.

　Russian troops invaded throughout Chechnya, systematically obliterating towns and villages; by April 1995, about 90% of Chechnya was under Russian control. In the conquered territory, atrocities were committed by Russian Interior Ministry MVD units in an operation to cleanse villages of suspected insurgents and rebel supporters. Concentration camps were established and civilians were held in mass detention, along with widespread abuses. 

　In June 1995, a terrorist group from the Chechen Republic took over a hospital in neighboring Budyonovsk and took approximately 1,500 hostages. Multiple attempts by Russian forces to storm the hospital failed, and approximately 150 hostages were killed. A negotiated cease-fire was agreed upon, ending the first conflict. The Chechen insurgency ended the ceasefire in October 1995 and began a second insurgency phase. Russian forces were subjected to Chechen guerrilla attacks, and the majority of Russian military casualties occurred during this phase. The Russians were on the defensive and could no longer make frequent use of their heavy bombing strategy. Concentration camps and cleansing operations continued. The Russian media broadcast grisly images of the conflict after the collapse of the Soviet Union, rapidly turning Russian public opinion against the war.

　On August 6, 1996, 1,500 Chechen fighters infiltrated Grozny and launched a daring Chechen raid on Grozny, a surprise attack on a Russian garrison of about 12,000 men. The Russian troops were driven into isolated groups, and the Chechen numbers were quickly augmented by reinforcements who had set up an effective defensive position. After the Russian counterattack was repulsed, the Russians surrounded the city and on August 19 gave the Chechens a 48-hour ultimatum to leave the city. The approximately 300,000 trapped civilians were in a state of panic, and on August 20 artillery fire began, hitting many of the fleeing civilians. Russian forces were ordered to withdraw from Chechnya on August 22, 1996, suffering a painful defeat; by August 31, the Hasav-Yurt Agreement was signed, formally withdrawing Russian troops and recognizing Chechnya's de facto independence.

In April 1975, the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh was bombed by the Khmer Rouge. Surviving Gambodians sifted through the collapsed rubble and corpses in despair.

　　In April 1975, the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh was bombed by the Khmer Rouge. The surviving Gambodians sifted through the crumbling rubble and corpses in despair, and on April 17, the Khmer Rouge triumphantly entered the capital, Phnom Penh. Within hours, they had transformed and disintegrated Cambodia into a rural society in service to the state. They ordered the forced evacuation of approximately 2 million residents to the countryside. Resident foreigners were deported to the Thai border, losing witnesses to the genocide in Democratic Kampuchea; between 500,000 and 1.5 million of the victims between 1975 and 1979 died from forced labor and starvation caused by the Khmer Rouge.

　　When Nixon became president of the United States in January 1968, he pledged an honorable end to the war in Vietnam. Troops and supplies from North Vietnam were pouring into South Vietnam via Cambodia. To counter the North Vietnamese forces, Nixon dramatically expanded the Cambodian bombing campaign begun by his predecessor, President Lyndon Johnson In March 1969, Nixon secretly ordered the U.S. Air Force to conduct a massive bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia to cut off North Vietnamese supply routes In April 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese ground forces invaded eastern Cambodia and attacked communist sanctuaries. Meanwhile, North Vietnamese forces penetrated deeper into Cambodia and began occupying large parts of the countryside for the Khmer Rouge. Nixon then launched a ground invasion of Cambodia to cut off supply routes for the North Vietnamese army.

　　Although Cambodia was not a party to the Vietnam War, it was estimated that the U.S. bombing of Cambodia exceeded the total tonnage of all bombs dropped by the United States during World War II. American bombers dropped more than 2.7 million tons of bombs on more than 113,000 sites in Cambodia, inflicting heavy casualties on combatants and civilians. Tens of thousands of Cambodians were killed in the bombing campaign against Cambodia, and millions were made refugees. The destruction caused by the mass bombings and the partial occupation by the U.S. military in 1970 prompted the rise of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, which subsequently enforced genocide, and the Khmer Rouge regime was estimated to have massacred some 2 million Cambodians.

 

On a battlefield on the Western Front of World War I, the body of a German scout who had been shot dead hung from a bullet-riddled tree. The corpse was propped up by tree branches, its limbs hanging down.

　　On a battlefield on the Western Front of World War I, the body of a German scout who had been shot dead was hanging from a tree that had been riddled with bullets. The corpse was propped up by tree branches, its limbs hanging down. No one was willing to put down the corpse of a German soldier, a tragic beacon of the violence of war, as the invasion of northern France began, and it appeared on the front page of Le Miroir, a photographic weekly dated December 6, 1914. It was published with particularly interesting photographic material on the war.

 

　　Le Miroir was a periodical French photographic weekly with extensive use of photography, first published in 1910. It was a supplement to Le Petit Parisien, a daily newspaper. Le Petit Parisien was a French daily newspaper published from October 15, 1876 to August 17, 1944, and was one of the four major French dailies on the eve of World War I, along with Le Petit Journal, Le Matin, and Le Journal.

　　Le Miroir switched to war reporting on August 8, 1914, with its front page dated December 6, 1914, featuring a dead German soldier hanging from a tree. To the French public, who were behind most European fronts during World War I, Le Miroir served as a truly realistic organ of the violence breaking out on the battlefields. To tell the story of the war, the violence of the war had to be recreated, so it used photographs, a visual shock, as a substitute for the actual events. The acquisition of the most shocking photographs of World War I, which had never been published, made it possible to publish them in Le Miroir. During World War I, due to a lack of paper, the magazine published a small number of pages, mostly of photographs, at a price of 25 cents. After World War I broke out on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, Le Miroir was transformed into a photo-only sports magazine from July 8, 1920, and ceased publication with issue 1084, published August 29, 1939.

  

During the Russo-Japanese War, at 2:27 p.m. on September 1, 1904, in the Liaoyang Battle, the Japanese Army worked to collect the bodies of the dead of the 34th Infantry Regiment at a trench position on the southern highlands of Shusanbao.

During the Russo-Japanese War, at 2:27 p.m. on September 1, 1904, at the trench position on the high ground south of Shusanbao, the Japanese Army was engaged in collecting the bodies of the dead of the 34th Infantry Regiment. The trenches were littered with the corpses of Japanese and Russian soldiers killed in action. The capture of the Sosan Redoubt took a fierce toll, and in the early morning of August 30, 1904, the Second and Fourth Armies launched an attack against the Sosan Redoubt. However, they struggled against the strong positions of the Russian forces and the battle line stalled, and on August 31, Shuta Tachibana, who later became a military deity, was killed in a spectacular battle. In order to break the war situation, the First Army secretly began crossing the Taishi River from the night of August 30. It was able to flank the Russian forces east of Liaoyang, and on September 1, the 2nd Division occupied Mount Manjusan and the 12th Division occupied Mount Wu Ting Shan.

 　The Russians, fearing a retreat to the First Army deployed on their flanks, withdrew the units confronting the Second and Fourth Armies to the Second Defense Line. Some of them were deployed to the east of Liaoyang. The Second Army, which was struggling, was able to capture the Sosanbao area while pursuing the Russian forces that had begun to retreat. This time, the First Army was under the onslaught of the Russian forces. The battle lines on all sides were at a stalemate. The Russians were ordered to withdraw on September 4 in preparation for a decisive battle in the Mukden area.

　The Japanese forces, numbering some 130,000 troops, and the Russians, numbering some 220,000 troops, launched a general attack on August 28, but the main Russian forces, especially on the Shusanbao line in front of Liaoyang, were able to intercept the Second and Fourth Armies. Only the 1st Army on the right wing continued the invasion, and the 12th Division on the extreme right wing crossed the river at the upper reaches of the Taishi River, which flows through Liaoyang to the Liao River, at midnight on August 30, and showed its readiness to attack the rear of the Russian forces. On August 31, the Second Army was ordered to break through the position of Shushanbao, the center of the Russian defensive line, as quickly as possible. It launched an assault on the Sosanbao and occupied it on September 1. Tachibana Shuta, an army infantryman who led the assault and was killed in action, was treated as a military god. In the Battle of Liaoyang, the casualties of the 134,500 Japanese and 224,600 Russian troops were estimated at about 23,500 and 20,000 casualties, respectively.

Volunteers and municipal workers grab the body from a flooded house in the town of Hola Prystan in the Kherson region, Russian-controlled territory, after flood waters receded following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam, Ukraine on June 16, 2023.

　　Volunteers and municipal officials remove a dead body from a flooded house after floodwaters receded following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine, June 16, 2023, in the town of Khora Pristan, Russian-controlled Kherson region. Nova Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region burst, flooding the town. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the collapse. Ukrainian authoritiesThe flooding in the Russian-occupied southern town diminished, but bodies remained under the rubble. Resources are scarce as Russian forces continue shelling the western bank of the Dnipro River.

　　The destruction in the flooded areas of Russian-occupied Khorapristan has been catastrophic, with bodies still buried under the rubble, the Ukrainian military administration posted on Telegram on June 21. Water levels are slowly receding, but eastern, central, and coastal areas of Khora Pristan remain partially flooded. The destruction of houses in the flooded towns is catastrophic. The bodies of the dead are buried under rubble. There is no gas or electricity supply in most of the town, and the sewage system in parts of the town are still submerged.

　　 In the early hours of June 6, 2023, after the Nova Kahovka dam and hydroelectric plant collapsed, the water level continued to rise and the occupied area in the Kherson region was declared catastrophic. Residents were left without rescue, without water, and simply on the roofs of their homes in flooded settlements. People and animals died. From the roofs of the flooded houses, drowned people can be seen floating. You can also see them on the other side. It was very difficult to get people out of the occupied areas in the Kherson region; search and rescue operations in Kherson began in earnest on June 7, but the sounds of shots being fired and cannons landing continued. More than 1,400 people were evacuated throughout the Kherson region, and more than 1,800 houses on the west bank of the Dnipro River were flooded.

　The Nova Kakhovka dam is a critical infrastructure, supplying water to most of southeastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, including the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture has announced that 10,000 hectares of farmland are expected to be flooded, turning fields in southern Ukraine into deserts.On June 6 at around 3:00 a.m., Russian troops blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, raising water levels and flooding the approaches and left bank of the Dnipro River and settlements located there. This made it difficult for Ukrainian forces to mount a counteroffensive in the future. However, it remains unclear if the dam was deliberately attacked or if the breach was due to a structural defect. Satellite images show that part of the bridge was lost between June 1 and 2. 

Warning: Volunteers and municipal workers grab the body from a flooded house in the town of Hola Prystan in the Kherson region, Russian-controlled territory, after flood waters receded following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam, Ukraine on June 16, 2023. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency)