On May 7, 1954, the French command H.M. Him Lam fell at the hands of the Viet Minh in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam (Union for the Independence of Vietnam). The area around the command center was littered with the corpses of many Viet Minh and others who had been killed.

　　On May 7, 1954, the French command H.M. Him Lam fell at the hands of the Viet Minh in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam (Union for the Independence of Vietnam). The area around the command center was littered with the corpses of many slain Viet Minh and others. The Viet Minh campaign in Dien Bien Phu ended successfully, and the French stronghold in Dien Bien Phu was destroyed by the Viet Minh forces. The Viet Minh flag of determination to fight and victory fluttered in the camp bunker of the Him Lam command post. On the same day, French colonial troops in Vietnam were effectively defeated by the pro-independence Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. 

　On March 13, 1954, Viet Minh (Vietnamese League for Independence) artillery fired into the outermost enclave of Him Lam, breaking the silence in the remote northwestern valley and beginning Operation Dien Bien Phu. Some 49,000 Viet Minh, using manpower tactics, stormed the outer strongpoints of the French garrison. The airstrip was under constant fire, and French counter-battery fire to dislodge the Viet Minh artillery was hopelessly ineffective, with many French guns destroyed.

　 A brutal 55-day siege ensued, and on November 20, 1953, French paratroopers and engineers parachuted into Dien Bien Phu in the valley and began building defensive positions. During the first four days of fighting, three of the nine French forts were lost and more than 1,000 French soldiers were killed or wounded. After a fierce battle, the Vietnamese forces collapsed the Dien Bien Phu fort, killed or captured 16,200 French soldiers, shot down 62 aircraft, and captured all enemy French military supplies. The red and yellow flags of the Vietnamese army were raised over the bunker of the French commander, General de Castries. By midnight the same day, all French-led units were taken prisoner. About 2,000 more French soldiers were killed, and more than 10,000 were wounded or captured. The Viet Minh suffered more than 23,000 casualties.

 

During the Croatian-Serbian Civil War of the Balkan War, a federal Serb soldier was killed during an attack by Croatian soldiers on Vojnovic's barracks.

 　During the Croatian-Serbian Civil War of the Balkan War, an attack by Croatian soldiers on Vojnovic's barracks was successful. During that attack, a Serbian soldier in the federal army was killed. In 1992, after Croatia seceded from the Yugoslav Federation of Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian President Milosevic declared a new Yugoslav federation consisting of the two remaining states, Serbia and Montenegro. Yugoslav Federation, was proclaimed.

　The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croatian forces loyal to the Croatian government, which declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), and the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces The JNA ended its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.

　Croatia held its first postwar multi-party elections in April 1990 amid democratic reforms in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. The government of the Communist League was defeated, and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which has strong nationalist tendencies, won a landslide victory and took power. After the establishment of the new government, a new constitution with a strong nationalist character was adopted in December 1990, and the movement to secede from the Yugoslav federation accelerated; in May 1991, a referendum on independence resulted in 94% support for independence from the former Yugoslavia, and the parliament adopted a declaration of independence. Serbs boycotted the referendum. This led to fighting between Croatian and Serb forces, which culminated in a cease-fire agreement in January 1992 and the deployment of a UN Protection Force. Starting with European countries, other countries recognized Croatia as a state. In 1995, Croatia retook part of its territory from Serbian forces, and the remaining area of Eastern Slavonia (northeastern Croatia) was administered by the UN Interim Administration from 1996, With its withdrawal in January 1998, Croatia regained sovereignty over its entire territory.

　In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a major conflict erupted in April 1992 between Muslim, Croatian, and Serb populations over independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (former Yugoslavia). Each ethnic group fought for supremacy throughout Bosnia, resulting in 200,000 deaths and 2.2 million refugees and displaced persons, making it the worst conflict in postwar Europe. In December 1995, the fighting ended with the Dayton Peace Accords, and Bosnia became a single state consisting of two entities: the "Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" with Muslim and Croat residents, and the "Republika Srpska" with Serbian residents. The Office of the High Representative (OHR) and SFOR, a NATO-centered multinational force, were responsible for the civilian and military implementation of peace.

After the Battle of Verdun in World War I, French positions were destroyed by German artillery fire in 1947, and the bodies of French soldiers bombed to death in the trenches were strewn about.

　　After the Battle of Verdun in World War I, French positions were destroyed by German artillery fire in 1947, and the bodies of French soldiers bombed to death in their trenches were strewn about. German shelling at Verdun resulted in the deaths of all 38 French soldiers in their bunkers in the trenches of the Bois de Coles. The French positions were heavily shelled by the Germans, and the trenches collapsed.

　Soldiers caught in the crossfire were ground to a pulp, and their wounds were often fatal. The wounded who escaped the bombardment were often deeply wounded, crippled, and traumatized. The ground around Tiaumont Ouvrage in Verdun was ravaged by shelling. The effects of World War I shelling were such that organized positions were often completely destroyed, and when trenches, bunkers, and concrete positions were gone, fighters used the craters for rifle fire.

　The weapons of World War I grew phenomenally with the invasion of the war. Most of the industrial resources of the warring parties were devoted to the production of arms: from the summer of 1914, when World War I broke out and the first battles were fought, artillery pounded the enemy's entrenched positions in a matter of days. During the four years of World War I, all belligerents fired more than one billion artillery rounds on all fronts. World War I was an artillery war. The horrors of the Great War caused artillery to advance technologically at an astonishing rate in just a few short years, and it played an important role in the fighting. The artillery of World War I was the greatest killer of the war, leaving a bloody trail of physical pain and inhumanity.

　Large quantities of lead projectiles spit out by shrapnel, pieces of steel of all sizes from the ignition of exploding shells, heavy shell casings, bullet and chemical casings, and traces of explosives remained. The massive amount of explosive energy and weight of material bombarded at several kilometers per hour over a limited area was devastating to the terrain and to the combatants.

　Disintegrated and crumpled bodies, soldiers cut into pieces, torn limbs, disfigured faces, soldiers bleached white from lacerations and internal bleeding, organs destroyed by the shock waves of the explosions, bodies thrown into the air and dislocated, poisoned soldiers, blinded soldiers, soldiers suffocated, burned to death, etc. were strewn about. Eighty percent of the casualties of World War I were the result of artillery bombardment. Blasts hurled corpses into the air, disarticulated them, destroyed their internal organs, burned them in the heat of the flames, buried them in chaotic bunkers, and drove them mad with psychological shock.

 

A US Marine poses with his gun beside the body of a Japanese soldier killed by US troops in early February 1944 during the Battle of Kwajalein Island in the Pacific War.

 　　A U.S. Marine poses with his gun next to the body of a Japanese soldier killed by U.S. forces during the Battle of Kwajalein Island in the Pacific War. The ground battle of Kwajalein Island lasted from February 1 to 5, 1944, during which more than 80% of the approximately 6,000 Japanese garrison members were killed.　

　In the Pacific War, American forces approached Kwajalein Island with battleships and transports to land on the island beginning February 1, 1944. The first wave of American troops landed at 7:30 a.m. from outside the reef near the south battery. The attack by the Japanese was heavy and they temporarily retreated. American troops landed on the islands west of Kwajalein Atoll and landed on Enubu Island. Although the Americans retreated from Kwajalein for a time, the Japanese defensive positions were destroyed and about one-fifth of the garrison was killed or wounded.

　On February 2, the American attack continued to intensify. From early morning, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and transports approached the main island of Kwajalein, and after repeated bombardment, landed on the west coast at 8:10 am. Amphibious vehicles and amphibious light tanks were launched from the bow of the tank landing craft into the sea. Landing craft invaded Kwajalein at 9:00 AM. The front-line rocket gunboats fired a tremendous barrage of shells at the landing site.

　The American landing began with amphibious light tanks leading the way. The Americans carefully spotted Japanese tochkas built under palm trees. Each time, the light tanks fired tank shells, but they only made small holes in the concrete. The Japanese soldiers, who had been soundly defeated, began to fight back. Mortars and mortars flew into the sturdy tochka from American naval fire.

　The Americans introduced a new method of attack: the flamethrower. Although the flamethrowers were effective in attacking the tochka, American soldiers carrying flamethrowers were slaughtered by Japanese snipers. The tank then brought a portable flamethrower inside the vehicle, approached the tochka with its entire body, and sprayed firebombs into the tochka through a small hole in the front of the vehicle. The U.S. Army frequently utilized the flamethrower from the Battle of Kwajalein.

 The Americans pressed their offensive, reaching the western edge of the airfield by noon on February 2. The Japanese were ordered to hold their positions until they were reduced to a single man, and to defend the main island until reinforcements arrived. The Japanese garrison in the southern sector of the island, with a mixed force of land and sea troops, launched a night attack on the American forces. The American forces were repulsed near the water's edge. The counterattack was frustrated by concentrated fire from naval guns and Enivuj Island, and on February 2, the Americans also landed on Ruot and Namur islands in Kwajalein Atoll. Ruot Island was completely occupied by 3 pm. Namulu Island was also crushed at night by all Japanese troops after a night raid.

　By February 3, fierce fighting continued throughout the day on the main island of Kwajalein over the eastern area of the airfield, and American troops continued to fire at night with field and ship guns. The Japanese forces counterattacked with their remaining forces, but casualties continued to mount, and on February 4, at dawn, Japanese positions were breached one after another by American tanks. At 10:00 a.m., the entire Japanese military leadership committed suicide. The remaining Japanese soldiers charged the American troops but were stopped, and the Japanese garrison lost most of its strength by nightfall.

　By February 5, the remaining Japanese garrisons were still holding strong on the eastern coast, and at midnight on February 6, the battle ended with the Americans in control of almost the entire island of Kwajalein. American forces also occupied Ebize Island in the northern part of Kwajalein, and over the course of February 6, they also occupied Loi and Gugueguebigue, thus completely seizing Kwajalein Atoll.

　The total number of casualties on the main island of Kwajalein was approximately 4,030 Japanese Army and Navy troops. In fact, more than 80% of the entire garrison was killed in action. In contrast, the U.S. forces lost only 177 of the 21,342 men who participated in the war. Outside of the main island, the Japanese forces lost 3,200 men out of 3,560, while the U.S. forces lost 195 out of 2,044.

During the bitterly cold winter of 1941-1942, German infantrymen froze to death in the endless Soviet snowfields near the capital of Moscow during the Battle of Moscow in World War II.

 　　During the bitterly cold winter of 1941-1942, German infantrymen froze to death in the endless Soviet snowfields near the Soviet capital of Moscow. The German soldiers who died from the cold accounted for a significant percentage of the 120,000 German soldiers who invaded Moscow. The Wehrmacht was forced to invade unprepared, underdressed, and undernourished for the brutal winter that lay before them.

　The Battle of Moscow, which broke out on September 30, 1941, saw the first snow fall on October 7, which quickly melted and turned roads and open spaces into a quagmire. The German armored groups slowed considerably and the Soviets were able to retreat and regroup. The German Central Army Group no longer had the reserve forces to counter the Soviet forces. In a chain of bloody battles, they were forced to retreat up to about 400 km. The German front was restored in April 1942. 

　　 On December 2, the Wehrmacht invaded at its closest approach, about 30 km from the Kremlin in the capital, Moscow, and from early December 1941, the relatively mild temperatures in Russia dropped to 20 to 50 degrees below zero. German soldiers who did not have winter clothing and German vehicles were frozen. The number of cases of frostbite among German soldiers reached more than 130,000. Loaded artillery shells were cleared of frozen grease and vehicles were heated for hours before use On December 5, 1941, Soviet counteroffensive operations were launched on the Kalinin front On December 5, the Axis offensive in Moscow was halted and the Wehrmacht invasion stopped On December 8, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to take defensive positions on all front and ordered the Wehrmacht into a defensive posture on all fronts.

   On January 7, 1942, the Wehrmacht suffered its first major defeat and withdrew approximately 100-250 km from Moscow. At that point, exhausted and worn out, the Soviet forces temporarily halted their offensive; total casualties from September 30, 1941 to January 7, 1942 were estimated at 248,000 to 400,000 for the Wehrmacht and 650,000 to 1,280,000 for the Soviet Red Army.

On April 4, 2024, Ashraf, a wounded Palestinian father, wept over the bodies of his two daughters, Aisal and Rashel, who were killed overnight on April 3 by Zionist air strikes at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

 　　On April 4, 2024, an injured Palestinian father, Ashraf, weeps over the bodies of his two daughters, Aisal and Rashel, who were killed overnight on April 3 by Zionist air strikes at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.On October 7, 2023, Hamas armed groups Six months passed on April 4, 2024, since they swept in and slaughtered

　UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on April 5 over the deaths of many civilian Palestinians due to the Israeli military's use of artificial intelligence to identify targets in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Guterres said that the Israeli airstrikes included artificial intelligence that identified targets, resulting in many civilian casualties, especially in densely populated residential areas. We should not be left to the cold calculations of an artificial intelligence to influence decisions about life and death." He said.

　The Israeli military used AI to identify targets in the Gaza Strip, according to a report in the independent magazine +972. The +972 report said, "Israeli forces used an AI targeting system to mark casualties and target tens of thousands of Gaza Strip residents as assassination suspects with little human oversight, according to six Israeli military intelligence officers who said the system, dubbed Lavender, was used in the early stages of the war." The system of the Lavender name played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of the Palestinians in the early stages of the war," according to six Israeli military intelligence officers.

　According to the sources, the Israeli army's Lavender guns were so influential that they essentially treated the output of the AI machines as a human decision. In the first weeks of the war, the Israeli military allowed up to 15 or 20 civilian Palestinians to be killed for each Hamas official targeted by the Lavender gun. It was decided that killing was permissible. He added that on several occasions Israeli forces have authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians if the target is a Hamas official.

　At least 33,137 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Authority's Gaza Strip Health Ministry. The UN warned of an impending famine in the besieged territory. The Israeli military hyped AI-based targeting after an 11-day conflict in the Gaza Strip in May 2021.

Warning: Injured Palestinian father Ashraf mourns over the bodies of his two daughters Aysal and Rashel after they were killed in an overnight Zionist air strike on April 4, 2024 at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. - AFP

Severe contractures and thick scar tissue developed on the burns of a woman who had sustained burns approximately 1.5 km from the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. The right hand contracture became so severe that it was investigated after a skin graft was placed on the right hand.

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SEVERE CONTRACTURES AND THIC SCAR TISSUE DEVELOP IN BURNS OF NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR.

TAHIWA OKURA

SUSTAINED BURNS WHEN　ABOUT 1.5KM. FROM GROUND CENTER OF ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT NAGASAKI. 

CONTRACTURES OF HANDS ARE NOW SEVERE. A SKIN GRAFT HAS BEEN APPLIED TO　RIGHT HAND.

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From 23 November 1942, German troops were surrounded by Soviet troops near Stalingrad, and the bodies of German soldiers killed on the prairie snow were scattered on the prairie snow and anti-tank guns were destroyed.

　　The Siege of Stalingrad, which broke out on June 28, 1942, began on November 23, 1942, when the Germans were surrounded near Stalingrad and the Soviets were killed on the prairie snow, with the bodies of German soldiers scattered and the weapons they fought with destroyed. German soldiers who did not leave their anti-tank positions until the end were killed in action and their bodies fell in the snow as Soviet artillery blasted them.　

　In mid-November 1942, a massive Soviet counteroffensive overwhelmed the German 6th Army on the outskirts of Stalingrad, and it was cornered along with its armored forces. The Soviet onslaught crushed satellite armies on both sides, and by mid-February 1943, Soviet units had temporarily invaded far beyond Kharkov in the Ukraine. The Germans finally held the Eastern Front temporarily at Donetsk in the Ukraine.

　The pincer attack by the Soviet forces had trapped some 230,000 German, Romanian, and Croatian soldiers and auxiliaries in pockets (cauldrons) in the bunkers of the Siege of Stalingrad on the front line to the steppes since November 23, 1942. In the pocket were about 10,000 surviving Soviet civilians and several thousand captured Soviet soldiers. Fifty thousand men of the Sixth Army were turned aside outside the pocket. The Soviets prevented the Germans from escaping on the inner siege front and prevented relief to the Germans on the outer siege front; an armored group attempted to escape in December but was thwarted. It quickly became impossible to adequately supply the 22 German divisions in the cauldron. Tens of thousands starved to death, froze to death, were wounded, and suffered epidemics.

　Under threat of siege even deep in the hinterland, and already forced to defend themselves in the Caucasus, the Germans withdrew through the steppes to Taganrog in January 1943. Most of them were pushed into the Kuban bridgehead. The German counterattack on the Neva River finally broke the blockade around Leningrad in mid-January, and on January 31 the Germans finally surrendered as Soviet troops closed in on the German headquarters in the ruined Gum department store. The remnants of the German army in Stalingrad also surrendered on February 2, leaving 91,000 exhausted, sick, and starving German soldiers as prisoners of war. Of the 91,000 German POWs, only 5,000 returned home after their captivity.

During a training exercise in a British village in World War II, a bayonet instructor of the Home Guard, a militia organization in 1942, thrust his bayonet with a deadly intensity at once toward a hanging bag that suggested the enemy.

　During training in a village in England during World War II, Corporal Charles Batchelor, a bayonet instructor for the Home Guard, a militia organization, in 1942, thrust his bayonet with such intensity that it ended his life at once for show, against a hanging bag that suggested the enemy.

　White combat is close combat by soldiers and infantrymen fighting with white soldiers, i.e., swords, bayonets, and other weapons. It was cruel and intense combat for the soldiers involved in the bayonet charge. Soldiers fixed their bayonets and charged toward the enemy. For the soldiers, it was a moment of great fear and determination. For the charging soldiers, the bayonet charge became a self-destructive or other-destructive attack.

　As they bayoneted toward the enemy, the soldiers were filled with adrenaline, with fear and determination. They were in a close combat with their own lives on the line. The training and camaraderie among the soldiers, who were also fearful, often contributed to the fear being stifled. The bayonet charge was intended to be a close encounter with the enemy, often executed in chaotic and brutal battle conditions. Soldiers rushed toward the enemy, shouting and screaming, adding to the fiery cruelty of the moment.

　The infantry charge with bayonets was accompanied by physical exertion as soldiers held their weapons and equipment while charging toward the enemy. Combined with the weight of equipment and fear, the bayonet charge reached its physical and mental limits.

　Despite the confusion and fear of the bayonet charge, soldiers needed to maintain mental focus during the bayonet charge. Strict discipline was enforced and coordination with fellow soldiers was forced in order to carry out the deadly bayonet charge. Close combat with bayonets was brutal and violent for both friend and foe. Soldiers had to be prepared to fight for the lives of their enemies. Often, bayonet assaults resulted in heavy casualties and casualties on both sides.

Residents recovered corpses killed by the North Korean People's Army on September 26 and 27, 1950, at a massacre site in Jeonju during the Korean War, on September 29.

Residents recovered corpses killed by the North Korean People's Army on September 26 and 27, 1950 at a massacre site in Jeonju during the Korean War on September 29.

　　The Jeonju Prison, located in Jinbuk-dong, Jeonju City, Jeollabuk-do, housed many leftist thought criminals, including those involved in the 4.3 Incident and the Lushun Incident, when the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. They were taken away by Korean soldiers from early to mid-July 1950 and then shot en masse at cemeteries and other locations. The number of victims is estimated at about 1,400, and the perpetrators were soldiers belonging to three regiments of the Korean Army's 7th Division. The inmates were taken to the cemeteries near Jeonju Prison, including Soligaeje and Hwangbangsan, where they were massacred. Immediately after the massacre, on July 20, all personnel from Jeonju Prison withdrew to Daegu.

　Shortly thereafter, the North Korean People's Army occupied Jeonju. The North Korean People's Army confined right-wing officials in the empty Jeonju Prison. According to the First Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2009), "On September 26 and 27, 1950, more than 1,000 right-wing figures, defined as 'reactionary elements,' were massacred and killed in Jeonju Prison by the 102nd Guard Regiment of the North Korean People's Army, the warden of Jeonju Prison and guards, the Home Ministry and local leftists. During the same period, about 60 people were massacred and killed in a quarry near the Presbyterian Theological Hospital (now Jeonju Jesus Hospital) in Jeonju, in the courtyard air-raid shelter of the official residence of the Wanju county governor, and in an air-raid shelter in front of a Catholic church," according to the report. On July 28, the day after the massacre, the North Korean People's Army burned down the Wanju Prison and withdrew, leaving the corpses behind.

　In a short period of less than three months, more than 2,400 civilians held in Jeonju Prison became victims of massacre after massacre by the ROK and DPRK militaries. The massacres by the ROK military were carried out by mass shootings followed by burial. The massacres by the North Korean People's Army were carried out by beating with pickaxes and shovels in the vicinity of Jeonju Prison. With the exception of 175 bodies, the bereaved families took the bodies. The 175 bodies that could not be recovered were laid to rest in the Hwangbangsan Aikoku Branch Cemetery near the Hwangbangsan massacre site.

　On October 1, 1950, UN forces occupied Jeonju and the Jeonju Prison staff returned to work. Jeonju Prison was burned to the ground and littered with hundreds of bodies that had been gruesomely murdered. The mass civilian casualties in Jeonju broke out intensively between September 26 and 27, 1950, just before the North Korean People's Army withdrew from Jeonju.

On the Western Front of World War I, during the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, dozens of dead French soldiers lay scattered on the muddy battlefield between Sovain and Tahiré in France, killed by German troops.

 　　On the Western Front of World War I, dozens of dead French soldiers lie scattered on a muddy battlefield between Sovain and Tahiré in France after being killed by German troops during the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.

 　In the months following the outbreak of World War I on July 28, 1914, German forces rapidly invaded French territory and French troops retreated. Fears arose that the Germans would occupy the French capital, Paris. The allied British wanted to evacuate to port cities along the English Channel. The French Parisian military governor pushed for a counterattack against the German flank to prevent the German invasion of Paris.

　French reconnaissance planes spotted a split in the German lines, and the Allies decided to counterattack quickly on September 5, 1914. Hundreds of cabs from Paris were used to rush French soldiers to the front lines in the Marne River valley, about 48 km northeast of Paris. The First Battle of the Marne became the first major battle of the Western Front in World War I.

　Allied and German forces fought for about a week from September 6 to September 14, using machine guns, artillery, and cavalry charges, and the British and French allies were able to push the Germans back from Paris. After retreating some 65 kilometers, the Germans went into hiding north of the River Esne in northeastern France. A race to the sea ensued between the Allies and the Twits, who then built trenches and reinforced their lines in an attempt to invade and break out of each other's north.

　By the end of the First Battle of the Marne, French casualties totaled about 250,000, of which an estimated 80,000 were killed in action; German casualties on the Western Front in 1914 totaled about 500,000. Both sides then fell into a brutal trench warfare that was slow and invasive. Countless soldiers lost their lives and died for the sake of a small territorial gain. This battle would go down as the First Battle of the Marne, for it was also in 1918 that the Second Battle of the Marne occurred, pushing back the German offensive.

During the Battle of Saipan in the Pacific War, on July 5, 1944, the bodies of Japanese soldiers who had failed to escape to their ships at the water's edge lay on the beach at Tanapag during an onslaught by American forces, while numerous Japanese ships were set aflame offshore.

　　At the end of the Battle of Saipan during the Pacific War, the Japanese garrison on Saipan was split into north and south units and was heavily attacked by American forces. Stranded north of Garapan, some Japanese troops attempted to escape by sea from Tanapag Harbor, but were annihilated under heavy fire from the U.S. On July 5, 1944, the bodies of Japanese soldiers who had failed to escape to their ships at the water's edge lay on the beach at Tanapag. A number of Japanese ships were set afire off the coast.

  From July 2 to 4, the U.S. 2nd Marine Division occupied the ruins of Garapan and its harbor. The U.S. 4th Marine Division quickly moved north up the west coast in the face of light Japanese resistance. As the Japanese forces collapsed, they eventually withdrew to the west coast north of Tanapag near the village of Makungsha; on July 4, the U.S. 27th Infantry Division and 4th Marine Division invaded to the northwest. The 2nd Marine Division no longer faced organized Japanese resistance, and on July 5, the U.S. 27th Infantry Division encountered strong Japanese resistance in a narrow canyon on the east coast north of Tanapag, where a two-day battle broke out. The order was given for the surviving units to carry out a final suicide attack to annihilate as many U.S. troops as possible.

　From July 7 to 9, at least 3,000 Japanese soldiers participated in the all-out Gyokusai attack. On July 8, the U.S. Army's 2nd Marine Division, armed with three tanks, support mortars, and machine guns, as well as bayonet sticks, knives, and grenades, launched one of the most devastating crushing raids of the Pacific War. On July 8, the U.S. 2nd Marine Division invaded the Tanapag Plain, searching for stragglers from the Japanese Army who had suffered heavy casualties in the crushing attack. The U.S. 4th Marine Division reached the west coast north of Makung Sha and invaded Malpi Point, near the northernmost tip of Saipan; on the evening of July 9, the U.S. 4th Marine Division reached the northern tip of Saipan and declared the island safe.

　The casualties of the Battle of Saipan were nearly all of the Japanese garrison, some 30,000 men, who died in the fighting. The U.S. forces lost 3,100 killed in action and 13,000 wounded in action out of the 71,000 men who were part of the assault force. The casualty rate exceeded 20%, comparable to the Battle of Tarawa. It was the most costly battle of the Pacific War up to that time for the U.S. military. About 40% of the Saipan civilian population was killed. Approximately 14,000 were captured alive; between 8,000 and 10,000 civilians died during or shortly after the battle.

 

On January 5, 2024, at the morgue of Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern Palestinian Gaza Strip, a male relative covered the bodies of his children, who were killed by Israeli shelling and wrapped in white cloths, crying and mourning.

　　　 A relative weeps and mourns as he covers the bodies of children wrapped in white cloths after they were killed by Israeli artillery fire in front of the morgue at al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah in the southern Palestinian Gaza Strip on January 5, 2024. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck more than 100 targets across Gaza overnight over the course of January 5. On Jan. 4, the IDF reported that it had attacked more than 100 targets in southern Gaza,

　At least 12 people, mostly children, were killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on January 4. Despite Israel's call for evacuation from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded into Rafah. Palestinian humans were pushed to the southern city of Rafah along the Egyptian border. The population of the Rafah area swelled to more than a million in the past few days, from about 280,000 before the war, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. However, Israeli forces continued to attack all parts of the besieged Palestinian territory. Palestinians who took refuge in southern Gaza struggled to find daily food, water, medicine, and toilets. Meanwhile, they were terrorized by Israeli airstrikes and the growing threat of disease.

　According to the Israeli Defense Minister, thousands of Hamas fighters remained in northern Gaza and the entire neighborhood was reduced to rubble. Heavy fighting continued in central Gaza and Khan Younis in the south, but Hamas military units remained largely intact. The UN humanitarian chief said the Gaza Strip had become uninhabitable and a public health disaster had occurred, with more than 400,000 infections reported since October 7, including 180,000 upper respiratory infections and more than 136,000 cases of diarrhea, half of them in children under five years old.

　About 1,200 Israelis were killed and about 250 taken hostage in an October 7 attack by Hamas from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. More than 22,400 Palestinians, both civilians and fighters, were killed, two-thirds of them women and children, in nearly three months of Israeli airstrikes, ground and sea attacks, according to the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Hamas militant group.

A boy exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb is being treated for contractures and skin grafts on his lower extremities, an after effect of the burns. The mother of the child's back also developed keloids from burns on her face and upper extremities.

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AT TIME OF THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT NAGASAKI, SEVERAL CONTRACTURES RESULTED FROM BURNS OF LEGS OF CHILD. 

THESE HAVE NOW BEEN TREATED WITH SKIN GRAFTS.

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During the Rwandan civil war in Africa, some 5,000 Tutsis were massacred by Hutu extremists inside the Tarama Church in Brusela in April 1994.

 　　During the Rwandan civil war in Africa, some 5,000 Tutsis were massacred by Hutu extremists inside the Tarama Church in Brucella in April 1994. Countless human remains, stripped of flesh and all but bone, were scattered afterward.

　Immediately after the downing of the presidential plane on April 6, Tutsis took refuge in the Tarama church for fear of Hutu attacks. The Tutsis inside the church held out for several days with stone throwers, bows, and spears; on April 16, armed Hutu soldiers and the militia group Interahamwe surrounded the Tarama church. Through a hole in the church wall, which had been destroyed by hand grenades, Hutu militia invaded inside the church and massacred the Tutsis. Hutus also waited around the church and slaughtered the fleeing Tutsis. Fewer than 10 Tutsis survived.

　The Tarama Church in Bugesera, Rwanda, was a stronghold established by Tutsis fleeing persecution and killings by Hutus that broke out in the early 1960s. In March 1992, over 300 Tutsis were massacred in Bugesera in retaliation for the Rwandan invasion of 1990 by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

　The Rwandan genocide in Africa killed about 300,000 people in a little more than a month using machetes, clubs, stones, and other weapons with which they were familiar. The killers trained day in and day out so that they could efficiently kill as many people as possible, a process that required physical and mental strength. The carnage broke out in Kigali and spread instantly to the rest of Rwanda. When the Hutu government took over, instead of burying the dead, the bones of the dead Tutsis were piled on a table. Tutsi corpses inside churches were left to die. For years after the massacre, the smell of decay wafted from inside the church.

A woman fell in the street after being hit by an incendiary bomb on 29 May 1945 as a result of the Yokohama Air Raid. A faintly alive woman called for help, but the woman, in a critical condition on her deathbed, was left untouched.

    A woman was found lying in the street after being hit by incendiary bombs on 29 May 1945 as a result of the Yokohama Air Raid. A faintly alive woman called for help, but the woman, in a critical condition on her deathbed, was left untouched. Numerous more charred bodies, large charred adult corpses and the bodies of small children were scattered across the urban area of Yokohama. Many of the bodies were placed on tin plates for transport and covered with cloth and soil. Many of the dead civilians were almost burnt to death. While fleeing, they died of asphyxiation due to carbon monoxide poisoning. 

　On 29 May, the Yokohama air raid was carried out from a base in the Mariana Islands, moving northwards and reaching the airspace over Yokohama at 9.22 am. In order to drop incendiary bombs on the central city of Yokohama, the bombing target, they chose to bomb the city in the morning and afternoon. The B-29 bombers concentrated their M69 incendiary bombs on five bombing zones, burning down densely-packed wooden houses and setting the city of Yokohama ablaze. The bombers repeatedly dropped 350,000 2,570 tonnes of incendiary bombs, causing a massive firestorm in Yokohama in just 68 minutes until

　On 25 May 1945, the US military conducted its last and largest air raid on Tokyo, destroying more than half of the city's urban area. With the raid on Tokyo complete, the next target for air raids was Yokohama, which had not suffered any air raid damage. In addition, more than 100 P-5 fighters escorting B-29s opened fire on the fleeing citizens of Yokohama who were being indiscriminately bombed. Unresisting civilian Yokohama civilians were also killed in the air raids by fighter fire, with nowhere to run. According to Yokohama police records, more than 3,650 people were killed, 10,198 were injured and some 310,000 were affected. On 28 May, the day before the Yokohama air raid, the US military held its third meeting of the Committee for Selecting Target Sites for the Atomic Bomb, where it was decided that Yokohama should be excluded from the list of candidate sites for the atomic bombing. The US military banned large-scale air raids after 29 May in order to showcase the threat of the atomic bomb.

After French troops crushed the Druze uprising in Syria in 1925, French troops massacred the Druze in mass executions. The bodies of many Druze killed by French troops littered the public execution square.

 　　After French troops crushed the Druze uprising in Syria in 1925, French troops massacred the Druze by mass public execution. The bodies of many Druze killed by French troops littered the square surrounded by spectators.

　In 1925, Sultan al-Atrash led an uprising in Jabal al-Druze, Syria, that engulfed all of Syria and parts of Lebanon in revolt. Fierce fighting broke out between the rebels and French forces, who seized control of all of Syria. The rebels were supported by the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party (CPSL); on August 23, 1925, Sultan al-Atrash officially declared a revolution against France. Soon fighting broke out in Damascus, Homs, and Hama. Al-Atrash won many battles against the French army in the early stages of the revolution. In particular, he won the battles of al-Kafr on July 21, 1925, al-Masrah on August 2, 1925, and the battles of Sarhad, al-Musayfirah, and As-Suwayda. In the last two battles of the Great Syrian Revolt, the Druze were defeated. After the rebels' victory over the French, French forces sent thousands of troops from Morocco and Senegal into Syria and Lebanon. French air strikes dramatically changed the course of the war, and the French recaptured many cities. Resistance by counterrevolutionary forces continued until the spring of 1927.

　The Great Syrian Revolt was an uprising that took place throughout Syria and Greater Lebanon between 1925 and 1927. The rebel forces were initially composed of Jabal Druze fighters from southern Syria, who were later joined by Sunnis, Druze, and Shiites and factions from all over Syria. The common goal was to end the occupation of France, whose rule had been transferred from Turkey after World War I.

　The Syrian Revolution took place in response to the repressive policies of the French authorities, who had subdued the Syrian mandate over Syria and Lebanon by dividing the country into several occupied territories. The new French government in Syria sought to change the existing character of Syria with a prejudice against the dominant Arab culture. The French authorities had not decided on the timing of Syrian independence.

　The Syrian Revolution lasted until late June 1927, resulting from the Great Syrian Revolt that broke out when French colonial troops occupied the coast in early 1920. French forces and their collaborators in the new local Syrian government achieved a military victory. The growth of widespread Syrian resistance led the French occupying authorities to establish the Syrian National Government and reintegrate the territories divided under it; in 1946, parliamentary elections were held as a prelude to the final French withdrawal from Syria.

A Vietnamese man who was seriously injured in the Tet Offensive by the People's Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) in District 8, a Saigon suburb, was supported and medevaced by soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Southern Vietnam (ARVN) and a civilian Vietnamese.

 　　　In the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive broke out on January 30, 1968 in District 8 on the outskirts of Saigon, a patriotic and active unit of the Republic of South Vietnam. A South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldier and a civilian Vietnamese provided physical support and emergency medical care to a Vietnamese man who was seriously wounded in the Tet Offensive by the People's Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC). The area was reclaimed from a swamp and built with the assistance of the U.S. military. It was an area of patriotism and activity for the Republic of South Vietnam until the Tet Offensive began.

　Beginning January 1, 1968, attacks on U.S. military bases by the North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong broke out in the Vietnam War. The Pope's declaration broke the armistice agreed to by all sides, and the Tet Offensive by the North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong broke out on January 30.

　The Tet Offensive, as envisioned by the Hanoi authorities of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, did not result in an uprising by the South Vietnamese population. The North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong in the entire southern region from Hue to the Mekong Delta conducted the first armed offensive of the Vietnam War. In less than a month of the Tet Offensive, more than 4,000 South Vietnamese Republican Army and U.S. troops were killed in action, and more than 2,100 U.S. troops were killed in action. The North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong suffered devastating losses, with nearly 37,000 killed. In the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong were never again able to fight with a united force after the Tet Offensive. The situation was not conveyed to the U.S. mainland, and the North Vietnamese suffered a propaganda victory.

　In 1968, President Johnson authorized an increase in the number of U.S. troops stationed in Vietnam to 549,500, the largest number of U.S. troops in Vietnam, and the number of U.S. soldiers reached its peak. 1968 was the most costly year for the U.S. military and its allies, spending $77.4 billion on the Vietnam War. The Republic of South Vietnam Army suffered 27,915 deaths, while the U.S. Army suffered 16,592 deaths. The North Vietnamese People's Army and the Viet Cong lost about 200,000 killed. The deadliest day per day in the Vietnam War for U.S. forces was January 31, when the Tet Offensive broke out, with 246 American soldiers killed in action.

On September 29, 1918, at the end of World War I, soldiers of the 53rd and 54th Brigades of the British Commonwealth Army gathered the bodies of soldiers killed in the final attack on the Hindenburg Line and prepared them for burial.

 　　On September 29, 1918, at the end of World War I, soldiers of the 53rd and 54th Brigades of the British Commonwealth Army gathered the bodies of soldiers killed in the final attack on the Hindenburg Line and prepared them for burial. Soldiers of the U.S. 27th Division also scattered the corpses of American soldiers from the battle near Guillemont Farm during the attack across the Hindenburg Line. The Western Front was immobilized, and offensive warfare was not keeping pace with the progress of defensive warfare. Although machine guns and rapid-fire artillery could defend, only armed infantrymen attacked, and they did not attack offensively, inflicting heavy casualties. Both sides in the Western War were unable to gain an advantage, and trench warfare was prolonged. The Hindenburg Line was the last and strongest line of defense for the Germans.

　The Hindenburg Line consisted of three trenches constructed at the end of 1916 and established in 1917. During September 1918, the British Commonwealth forces secured positions from which they could launch an attack on the Hindenburg Line, and by the end of September a major offensive had begun. It was hoped that this attack would finally break the power of the German army.

  On September 18, 1918, as the British Federal troops reached the first part of the Hindenburg Line, the German preliminary offensive was launched. At 5:20 a.m., British Commonwealth troops, supported by heavy artillery fire, attacked the fortified German defensive line and machine gun posts. With only eight tanks, they broke through German positions, inflicting 1,000 casualties and taking 4,300 German prisoners of war. Compared to the German losses, the British Commonwealth forces suffered considerably fewer casualties.

　On September 29, the Germans' last line of defense on the Hindenburg Line was finally breached. The British Commonwealth and American forces were given the task of leading the battle and breaching the central defensive line. Tanks, artillery, and aircraft worked in tandem to attack the strongly defended area of Belicour. Although advances were made, the two sides fought, and the battle lasted four days and inflicted heavy losses. Eventually, the Allied forces broke through the third and final stage of the Hindenburg Line. The Germans were forced to retreat.

　In an attack on October 5, an Allied brigade fought and finally captured the village of Montbrehain. With this, the Hindenburg Line was completely broken. The German lines collapsed and the division was forced to withdraw. At the same time, the German Revolution broke out in Germany on November 3, 1918, and on November 9, 1918, the Weimar Republic was born, hoping for peace; on November 11, 1918, the Armistice of Compiègne was signed, ending World War I.

The body of a woman killed after a Russian bombardment, lies on the ground in Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 17, 2024. Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 18 people, authorities said.

 2024年4月17日午前9時頃に、ウクライナ首都キエフから北方約150kmの国境近くの人口25万人のチェルニヒフ都市に、ロシア軍のミサイル攻撃で殺害された女性の死体が横たわった。ウクライナ北部の都市チェルニヒフの繁華街にロシア軍のミサイル3発が撃ち込まれた。8階建てのアパートに命中して、少なくとも18人が死亡したとウクライナ当局が発表した。ウクライナの救急隊によると、午前中の攻撃で3人の子供を含む少なくとも78人が負傷した。救助隊員が一部破壊された建物や高い瓦礫の山を捜索した。

　今回のロシア軍の砲撃は、ウクライナのミサイルがクリミアの飛行場を攻撃した4月17日未明の直後に、チェルニヒフ都市を攻撃した。ロシア・ウクライナ戦争が3年目に突入して、重大な岐路に差し掛かった。ウクライナ軍の西側諸国からさらなる軍事支援がないため、ウクライナ軍はロシア軍の大きな力に翻弄された。冬の数ヶ月間は、ロシア軍は1,000kmの前線に沿って劇的な侵攻はなかった。消耗戦に焦点を当て、ウクライナ軍の大砲弾薬、兵員、装甲車の不足により、ロシア軍は徐々に侵攻できた。

　アメリカでは、ウクライナへの約600億ドルを含む議会の承認が保留された。マイク・ジョンソン下院議長は4月14日に、今週中にパッケージを前進させると述べた。ウクライナへのアメリカ軍支援の遅れのために、ロシア軍は陣地戦から脱却し、戦場に機動力を取り戻した。アメリカだけが迅速かつ大規模な支援を提供できる。EU27カ国は1年前に、ウクライナに100万個の砲弾を送ると約束したが、EU圏は砲弾を製造できなかった。ウクライナのヴォロディミル・ゼレンスキー大統領は、地対空パトリオット誘導ミサイルシステムを含む防空装備を西側諸国に嘆願した。ウクライナが十分な防空装備を受け取れば、チェルニヒフの悲劇は起こらなかったと語った。ロシア軍のウクライナ最大の発電所の一つを破壊した大規模なミサイルとドローン攻撃を防衛してる間に、防空ミサイルを使い果したと語った。

　ウクライナ軍は、早ければ2024年5月のロシアの大攻勢を想定して、要塞を築きつつある。ウクライナ軍は、ロシア軍を混乱させるために、ロシアの戦線後方で長距離無人機とミサイル攻撃している。ロシア国防省は、4月17日未明に、タタルスタン地方上空でウクライナの無人機を撃墜した。この地域は、ウクライナの東約1200Kmに位置し、4月上旬にウクライナがロシア国内で最も大規模な攻撃を行った同じ地域である。モスクワの東約350kmにあるモルドヴィア地方上空で、別のウクライナの無人機が撃墜された。ウクライナ国境から700kmの距離がある。

Warning: The body of a woman killed after a Russian bombardment, lies on the ground in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 17 people, authorities said. (Francisco Seco/ ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A 17-year-old boy sustained burns at the Nagasaki Station rail yard, approximately 2.5 km from the hypocentre of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. As the burns healed, heavy scar tissue appeared.

 　　　　　　　　　Undisclosed photos of Japanese 　　　　　　　A-bomb survivors

　　　U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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"BURNS OF ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR HEAL WITH HEAVY SCAR FORMATION

THIS 17 YEAR OLD BOY SUSTAINED BURNS WHEN AT THE NAGASAKI R.R. STATION

ABOUT 2.5 KM FROM THE GROUND CENTER AT THE TIME OF THE EXPLOSION. HEAVY SCAR TISSUE APPEARED AS THE BURNS HEALED. HEAVY SCAR TISSUE ALSO

OCCURRED LATER, HOWEVER, ON HIS LEFT THIGH WERE SKIN WAS REMOVED TO GRAFT A BURNED AREA.

PHOTOGRAPHER & DR. HENSHAW

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

WAR DERARTMENT, WASHINTON.

by Signal Corps U.S.Army

14488

Atomic Bomb Casualties

On November 9, 1941, Soviet POWs struggled to get water from a half-frozen creek. Soviet Red Army POWs from the POW column came to the assembly point and drank water from the frozen creek.

 　On the Eastern Front of World War II, on November 9, 1941, Soviet POWs struggled to get water from a half-frozen creek. Soviet Red Army POWs from the POW column came to the assembly point and drank water from the frozen creek. The brutal mistreatment of POWs by the Germans forced many Soviet soldiers to watch in humiliation.

　Various figures are available on the number of Soviet soldiers who were taken prisoner by the Germans. According to the Germans, the number was estimated at 5.2 million, and according to the Soviet General Staff, 4.5 million. Complicating the Soviet POW figures was Nazi Germany's directive to dispose of Soviet POWs to the maximum extent possible. The number of those disposed of was approximately 1.5 million. The most frightening figure is how many of the Soviet POWs returned home. The average of the total number of POWs obtained from sources was assumed to be 6.5 million. Only about 1.7 million of these were able to return to the Soviet Union after the war. About 1 million of them continued to serve in the Soviet Red Army, and about 200,000 were deported to the concentration camps of the Internal People's Commissariat (NKVD). Returned were among those in the Soviet army who had collaborated with Nazi Germany in every way possible. About 600,000 Soviet POWs helped to build industries and build German cities. The other nearly 4.5-5 million Soviet POWs went where they went, and Soviet soldiers never returned. They were held in concentration camps until they died.

　　It was assumed that about 60% to 70% of the Soviet Red Army died in captivity. About 70% is actually cruel. Only 5% of British POWs died; the conditions of difference between 5% and 70% were unimaginable. The death rate for American POWs was only 1%. The first to be gassed were Soviet POWs. Later, Jews were used for mass executions by gassing. British and American soldiers were not gassed. According to the German archives, in the first year of World War II alone, about 6,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers were killed daily in the camps. About 1.5 million Soviet prisoners of war died on Ukrainian territory alone, and about 900,000 died in concentration camps in Poland.

　The Soviet Union once refused to sign an international convention on the humane treatment of prisoners of war. When World War II broke out, Stalin declared his willingness to be bound by the treaty. Germany ignored Stalin's declaration. Nazi propaganda used the Soviet Union's refusal to sign international treaties as an excuse to abuse captured Red Army soldiers. In German concentration camps, Soviet POWs faced terrible fates of starvation, epidemics, cold, violent guards, and lack of housing; in the spring of 1942, the Germans, in desperate need of exploitable labor, recounted the POWs, and of the approximately 3.5 million Soviet soldiers captured in 1941, about 60 percent died or executed. Subsequently, the living conditions in the camps were forced labor in war-production factories. Of the 5.7 million Soviet POWs captured by the Germans, an estimated 3.3 million died in captivity.

　After the end of World War II, former POWs returned to the Soviet Union and were forced into infiltration camps where they had to prove their innocence of aiding and abetting the enemy Germans. New imprisonment awaited many of the POWs who returned to their homeland, and POWs remained disgraced until the mid-1950s.

On September 3, 1965, in the early days of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese government soldiers laid rows of jute bags containing the corpses of their comrades-in-arms on a rice paddy bank on the edge of Tan Dinh Island in the Mekong Delta, waiting for an American helicopter to transport their bodies.

 　On September 3, 1965, in the early days of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese government soldiers laid a row of jute bags containing the corpses of their comrades-in-arms on the edge of a rice paddy field on Tan Dinh Island in the Mekong Delta on a nearby paddy bank, waiting for an American helicopter to transport their bodies. Until then, they had been on patrol for about two days without finding the North Vietnamese Army and the South Vietnamese Liberation Army, the enemies of the South Vietnamese Republican Army. On its way, the South Vietnamese government troops were surrounded and attacked by the Viet Cong of the South Vietnamese Liberation Army. Later, an armed U.S. helicopter attacked the unit, mistaking the Vietnamese government soldiers for South Vietnamese Liberation Army troops. A large number of South Vietnamese government troops were killed in action, killed by the U.S. troops. U.S. helicopters then landed in the rice paddies to collect and transport the corpses of the South Vietnamese government soldiers.

　Riverine operations were one of the central strategies of combat in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese government and U.S. forces fought the Viet Cong over the lower Mekong River and its tributaries. 15,600 square miles of land and more than 15,000 miles of waterways made the Mekong Delta an area of critical strategic importance. Producing approximately 16 million tons of rice annually, the delta was the economic foundation of the Republic of South Vietnam. For the communist North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong, the Mekong River, flowing south from Cambodia, was the southernmost tributary of the Ho Chi Minh route. It brought vital material support to the Viet Cong's 28 battalions and 69 companies, totaling about 82,500 troops in the Mekong Delta. 

　Approximately 40% of South Vietnam's population, or about 6 million people, lived in the swampy areas of the Mekong Delta Starting in 1965, Viet Cong bands invaded the Mekong Delta and surrounding areas By 1966, the communist North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong controlled almost 25% of the Mekong Delta's population The first of the North Vietnamese army and the Vietcong was the Mekong Delta. The primary objective of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong was to cut off the South's rice supply. The combined South Vietnamese government and U.S. forces had a two-pronged strategy to cut off the flow of supplies to the Vietcong and eliminate Vietcong troops and infrastructure. The U.S. and South Vietnamese government forces decided on a riverine operation to sweep the Mekong Delta to secure the region and return it to Saigon government control. U.S. Navy task forces and light patrols patrolled the Mekong, Co Chien, Long Tau, and Bassac rivers and their tributaries to obstruct the use of these waters by the Vietcong.

During the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, shrapnel from a Japanese fighter plane hit and killed an American soldier at Hickam Airfield. The body exploded and fell behind the Hickam Airfield sanitary station.

        During the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, shrapnel from a Japanese fighter plane hit and killed an American soldier at Hickam Airfield. The body exploded and fell face up behind the Hickam Airfield sanitary station. The Japanese attacked Hickam Airfield, southeast of Pearl Harbor, and American planes defended their pursuit to a Japanese aircraft carrier. The damage was severe, with 189 men killed in action and 303 wounded in action.

　Shortly before 8:00 a.m. on December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor. Officially, 2,403 American soldiers were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, with 2,008 Navy personnel, 109 Marines, 218 Army personnel, and 68 civilians among the dead. Approximately 1,117 of the dead were killed in the explosion on the USS Arizona when a bomb hit one of the powder magazines. The 1,143 wounded included 710 Navy, 69 Marines, 364 Army, and 103 civilians. Six U.S. ships and approximately 169 fighter aircraft were destroyed.

　Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by the Japanese shortly before 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, when 420 Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, destroying and damaging nearly 20 American naval ships, including eight battleships, and over 300 fighter aircraft. The attack destroyed and damaged nearly 20 U.S. Navy ships, including eight battleships, and more than 300 fighter aircraft. More than 2,400 Americans, including civilians, were killed in the attack, and about 1,000 more were wounded. On December 8, the day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. He declared, "On this day, December 7, 1941, which shall be known as the Day of Infamy," and brought the United States into not only the Pacific War, but World War II as well.

　Six Japanese aircraft carriers and 420 fighter planes sailed 5,600 kilometers from Hitokappu Bay in the Kuril Islands to a point about 370 kilometers off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. In the attack on Pearl Harbor, 129 Japanese soldiers were killed, and the Japanese lost 29 fighter planes and five small submarines. The Japanese attack force retreated from the Pearl Harbor battlefield without being attacked.