A 13-year-old Palestinian boy from the Gaza Strip died of malnutrition and starvation on May 31, 2024 at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah due to the closure of the Rafah humanitarian corridor by Israeli forces.

  The closure of the Rafah Humanitarian Corridor by Israeli occupation forces resulted in the starvation death of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip on May 31, 2024. The humanitarian crisis in the war-ravaged and closed Gaza Strip has worsened. According to a report by the official Palestinian news agency (WAFA), the child was Abdul Qader al-Sarhi, who died of starvation due to malnutrition at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Bara.

   According to medical sources in Rafah, the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip has risen to 37 as Israeli occupation forces continue their incursions in the southern city of Rafah. The dire health situation in the Gaza Strip has further worsened. Hospitals throughout the Gaza Strip were unable to provide necessary medical care due to the cessation of functions. Reflecting the number of returnees delivered to hospitals, dozens of people died of starvation, unable to reach hospitals.

  The Israeli military blockade of the Gaza Strip caused severe shortages of milk and medicine. Similarly, on May 30, 7-month-old Faiz Abu Ataya starved to death in central Gaza. While his father mourned the death of his child at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Faiz was carried by his father, his lifeless body flailing like a bare skeleton.

  Thousands of Palestinians lack access to food, water, and medicine as Israeli forces continue to close the Rafah border, which is vital for the transport of humanitarian aid, exacerbating the crisis. Rafah has been deprived of control of the humanitarian corridor from the Palestinian side since May 6, when Israeli forces expanded their incursion. Aid supplies have accumulated on the road connecting the Egyptian side of the border with the town of al-Arish, about 45 km west of Rafah. According to the UN, no vehicles have traveled through Rafah since May 5, and only a few vehicles have passed through the Karem Abu Salem crossing on the adjacent Israeli border.

Warning: Palestinian child Abdul Qader al-Sarhi's body at the morgue of al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, occupied Parestine, on May 31, 2024. (Social Media: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu)

In September 1945, after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, a nursing assistant tended to a child lying under a futon with burns on his head in the ruins of a makeshift hospital in a bank building, while his mother looked on.

　　　　　　　

　　　　　　　　　 Undisclosed photos of Japanese

 　　　　　　　A-bomb survivors

　　　U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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U.S.NAVY  No. 473737

SC-473737 Sept.1945.

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NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

NURSE'S AIDE AND MOTHER ADMINISTER AID TO VICTIM IN MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL IN BANK BUILDING.

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER:MILLER, WAYNE, LT.

TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR 15623

CLASSIFICATION RELEASED

On May 9, 1970, an American armored personnel carrier and its crew pass by two dead civilians staring down the side of the roadside, dead and scattered, as they enter the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

   On May 9, 1970, an American armored personnel carrier and its crew pass by the side of two dead civilians, dead and scattered on the side of the road, as they enter the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Cambodia was a neutral country but had long served as a sanctuary for communist forces fighting in Vietnam. South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and U.S. forces invaded Cambodia in the spring of 1970 to destroy communist stronghold areas and prevent the "North Vietnamization" of Gambodia.

On March 18, 1970, while the Vietnam War was still ongoing, Cambodian Prime Minister and Defense Minister Lon Nol staged a coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was in Paris. Ron Nol allied himself with the U.S. and demanded that the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, North Vietnamese Army) and the Viet Cong (VC, Vietnamese Communist Army), a communist organization in South Vietnam, withdraw from Cambodia.

  They closed the supply operations of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam) from the port of Sihanoukville and closed the Ho Chi Minh route supplying the PAVN and VC forces inside South Vietnam. Lon Nol then dispatched a hopelessly weakened Cambodian army against an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 PAVN troops in the three Cambodian border provinces. The U.S. provided equipment for the Cambodian army, which had over 100,000 men, but was driven back into the cities by communist forces.

   From April 14-20, 1970, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, South Vietnamese Army) conducted several cross-border battalion operations to seize key communist supply depots. Vietnamese People's Army (PAVN, North Vietnamese Army) and Viet Cong (VC, Vietnamese Communist Army) units withdrew into inland Cambodia. Up to about 30 kilometers into Cambodia, about 50,000 South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) and 30,000 U.S. troops entered the war. U.S. ground forces withdrew from Cambodia by June 30. The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) remained until 1971, creating hundreds of thousands of new Cambodian refugees. 638 South Vietnamese troops died, 338 U.S. troops died, and about 11,369 communist forces died during the invasion of Cambodia from April 29 to July 22, 1970.

In the Nanjing Massacre, disarmed Chinese soldiers of the Kuomintang Army were killed by Japanese troops in the suburbs of Nanjing with their hands tied behind their backs. They were then thrown into a pond, which was filled with the blood of more than 300 corpses.

　In the Nanjing Massacre, disarmed Chinese soldiers of the Kuomintang Army were killed by Japanese troops in the suburbs of Nanjing with their hands tied behind their backs. They were then thrown into a pond, which was filled with the blood of more than 300 corpses. After the massacre, Japanese soldiers threw the corpses into ponds and rivers, burned them, or buried them to conceal the massacre.

　In the Upper Xinhe area of Nanjing, the bodies of prisoners of war and fleeing civilians littered the fields and rivers of blood could be seen. After arresting hundreds of people, the Japanese censored the Chinese one by one, all of whom were considered soldiers of the Kuomintang Army, about 300 or more, were taken out and shot dead by machine guns, and their bodies were thrown into a pond, and at the Shuiximen there was a five-hole bridge, with corpses filling two bridge holes. The city of Nanjing was filled with corpses, and the bodies of many of the victims drifted down the flowing Yangtze River.

　During the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese bodies littered the streets of Nanjing in eastern China after the massacre of Chinese citizens by the Japanese army. The Nanjing Massacre was the most brutal and barbaric of all the atrocities committed by the Japanese military throughout their occupation of China during the Sino-Japanese War, which began on December 13, 1937, when the Japanese invaded and occupied Nanjing for the first time. About six weeks of destruction, looting, and massacres broke out, planned, organized, and deliberately carried out by the Japanese military. More than 300,000 Chinese, including defenseless civilians and unarmed soldiers, were killed, and countless rapes, looting, and arson were suggested. Looting and mass executions in Nanjing led to looting, rape, murder, and mayhem within Nanjing City.

　Hundreds more disarmed Kuomintang soldiers were taken out of the Nanjing area to be shot dead. The road to Xiawan in Nanjing was turned into a field littered with the wreckage of KMT military equipment and corpses. The Nanjing Ministry of Communications was torched by the Kuomintang troops, and the Changmen Gate in Nanjing was shelled. Outside the Changmen are piles of Chinese corpses. The Japanese military would not clear away the dead Chinese. The Red Swastika Society also did not raise its hand because it was forbidden to dispose of the corpses. Chinese soldiers disarmed by the Japanese forces were executed here and there. Outside the barracks of the Nanjing War Ministry, Chinese soldiers were executed with machine guns. 

In the Pacific War, during the U.S. invasion of Saipan, a U.S. Marine sniped a Japanese soldier on the way down while the bodies of numerous Japanese soldiers were scattered nearby.

　　In the Pacific War, during the U.S. invasion of Saipan Island, U.S. Marines sniped at Japanese soldiers on their way down as the bodies of numerous Japanese soldiers lay scattered nearby. With dead Japanese soldiers beside him, a Marine from the U.S. Army's 2nd Division, with an M1 carbine rifle at the ready, snipes a retreating Japanese soldier on Saipan Island during the invasion of Mount Maapi. U.S. Marines, surrounded by dead Japanese soldiers, open fire on Japanese positions during the invasion toward the western shore of Saipan Island.

 　Unable to stop the American landing on Saipan from the morning of June 15, 1944, the Japanese retreated to Mount Tapochau, the mountain that dominates the island. Located in the center of Saipan, Mount Tapochau is the highest peak on Saipan at approximately 1,550 feet. In intensive fighting, the American forces gradually drove the Japanese defensive positions from their almost impregnable position on the high ground. As the fighting raged, American units attacked Japanese positions across a heavily exposed valley. This area of the valley, dubbed "Death Valley," was surrounded by ridges, and well-defended and heavily armed Japanese soldiers fired directly at approaching American soldiers. The U.S. Marines dubbed the ridge "Purple Heart Ridge" after the many American soldiers who were wounded on the ridge. Fighting through the rugged jungle, the U.S. Marines finally conquered Mount Tapochau by the end of June. The Japanese were forced to retreat further to the north of Saipan, marking a turning point in the battle for the island.

　　By early July, Japanese units had retreated to the northern part of Saipan, where they were surrounded by American forces. early in the morning of July 6, the final "Banzai!" shouted an estimated 4,000 Japanese soldiers in a Hail Mary attack on the American positions near Tanapag Harbor. The Japanese soldiers were annihilated in close-range hand-to-hand combat, and more than 1,000 American soldiers were killed or wounded. The brutal three-week battle for Saipan resulted in more than 3,000 U.S. casualties and 13,000 casualties. On the Japanese side, it was estimated that at least 27,000 soldiers were killed in action. Thousands of Saipan citizens, frightened by Japanese propaganda warning them that they would be killed by American troops, committed suicide by jumping off the high cliffs at the northern tip of Saipan Island. 

The Pennsylvania Sun ship was exposed to a large fire caused by a torpedo from a German submarine U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. After the huge fire was extinguished, the charred skeletons of its victims were found on the ship.

　　The Pennsylvania Sun ship, an American vessel, was exposed to a large fire caused by a torpedo from a German submarine U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. After the huge fire was extinguished, the charred skeletons of its victims were found on the ship.

　At 07:49 on July 15, 1942, the Pennsylvania Sun vessel, unescorted by an American battleship, was sailing on a zigzag course at about 25 km/hour when she was hit by a single torpedo from the German submarine U-571 about 200 km west of Key West. The torpedo struck the port midsection between tanks 5 and 6, blowing off the port wing of the bridge, killing the quartermaster and the ship's crew, and igniting the cargo. The ship's cargo ignited and the vessel quickly turned into an inferno.

　The captain steered the vessel southeast at full speed for five minutes, then ordered the engines to stop and sent a distress signal. The 59 survivors, 9 crew members, 33 crew members, and 17 armed guards, abandoned ship in three lifeboats. They rowed out to sea anchor and waited for the rescue boats. They were picked up three and a half hours later by the US vessel Dahlgren (DD 187) and brought to Key West later that day. There were 57 survivors, two were missing.

　The next day, on the evening of July 15, the captain, three officers, and the crew of the USS Willett (ARS 12) returned to the Pennsylvania Sun. They extinguished the flames and towed the vessel to Key West. There they removed the burned bodies of the two crew members and other items. The Pennsylvania Sun vessel underwent temporary repairs. The tanker sailed under her own power with her crew to Chester, Pennsylvania, where she returned to service in 1943 after permanent repairs were completed. After the war, she was sold to the German company D. Ortmann in 1955 and scrapped in February 1963.

In the Korean War, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army attacked Outpost Harry, held by the 3rd Infantry Division of the US Army, on June 12, 1953. The bodies of Communist soldiers killed by the U.S. troops were scattered around the base for postmortem treatment.

 朝鮮戦争にて、アメリカ軍第3歩兵師団が保持する前哨基地ハリーに対して、1953年6月12日に中国人民義勇軍と朝鮮人民軍が攻撃した。基地を防御したアメリカ軍第3歩兵師団が、突撃する中国軍兵士を防御攻撃した。アメリカ軍が殺害した多数の共産党軍兵士の死体が基地周辺に散乱して、死後処置をした。

　朝鮮戦争にて1953年6月10日から18日に、前哨基地ハリーの戦いが勃発した。ハリーの戦いは、首都ソウルから北方に約96.6kmに鉄の三角地帯にある標高約387mの丘で勃発した。国連軍（UNC）部隊に対する中国軍の監視を阻止し、中国軍の直接砲撃から攻撃を防御した。

　中国軍の攻撃は6月10日午後6時から、強烈な砲撃で始まり、アメリカ軍防御隊を30対1で上回る約3,600人の突撃が続いた。中国軍は、アメリカ軍を釘付けにする自軍の砲撃をかいくぐって突撃するも、大規模な国連軍の砲撃を受けた。中国軍歩兵の一部は、アメリカ軍の塹壕線に侵入するも、アメリカ軍の壕を制圧できず、反撃されて撤退した。その後8日間は同様の突撃が繰り返された。中国軍は夜間に突撃して、昼間の国連軍の増援と補給活動が共産軍の砲撃と狙撃にさらされた。中国軍は6月11日から12日夜間に再び攻撃を仕掛け、大規模な砲撃の中で中国軍歩兵が侵入して壕に閉じこもるアメリカ軍守備隊を攻撃した。重砲と装甲の支援により、アメリカ軍は再び持ちこたえた。

　最も甚大な中国軍の攻撃は6月12日から13日夜に起こった。最初の攻撃が失敗すると、中国軍は再編成して、北、北東、北西から3方面の攻撃を開始した。アメリカ軍増援中隊は、東側面のアメリカ軍戦車大隊の陽動攻撃で持ちこたえた。6月14日から15日と6月18日の攻撃はいずれも失敗して、その後に中国軍は前哨基地ハリーの奪取を中止した。

　6月10日から8日間の戦闘で、中国軍は約4,200人の死傷者を出した。中国軍はアメリカの前哨基地に約88,000発の砲弾を撃ち込んだ。アメリカ軍の死傷者は死者183名、負傷者606名。他の丘の戦いと同様に、前哨基地ハリーをめぐる戦いは、両陣営が軍事的に十分な塹壕を築いた。

On February 12, 2024, Palestinian mothers mourned as they received the bodies of their children killed by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.

　　Palestinian mothers mourn as they receive the bodies of their children killed by an Israeli airstrike on the southernmost Gaza Strip city of Rafah on February 12, 2024 On February 12, the Israel Defense Forces launched an attack on the Gaza Strip city of Rafah, killing over 83 people. The airstrikes destroyed at least one mosque and several inhabited houses, killing most or all of the residents. Based on information from a hospital in Rafah, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said the dead included at least 27 children and 22 women. The Israeli government announced that it was a diversionary operation to rescue the two hostages.

　February 12 coincided with the date of the 8th U.S. Super Bowl, which Arab media and social media dubbed the "Super Bowl Massacre." More than half of the population of the Gaza Strip, more than 1.3 million people, had fled to Rafah. Most of the displaced Palestinians were crammed into sprawling tent cities. Many Palestinians fleeing Israeli bombing and shelling took refuge in the city of Rafah through enclaves as they moved south through Gaza. Rafah, the border with Egypt, was now the only barrier in and out of Gaza.

　Israeli forces killed approximately 12,300 more Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in just over four months. Children accounted for about 43% of the total number of deaths in the Palestinian Authority since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza health officials. In addition, women and children together account for three-quarters of the total number of deaths; more than one million Gaza Strip children have been killed, some 12,300 more have been killed, some 17,000 have been separated from their families, and more than 1,000 have had one or both legs amputated in the months of Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip An additional 610,000 people were killed. An additional 610,000 or more were trapped in the city of Rafah to escape Israeli bombing and bullets.

Warning: Palestinian women mourn a child killed in the Israeli bombardment on Rafah. People mourn as they receive the dead bodies of victims of an Israeli airstrike on February 12, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza.[Hatem Ali/AP Photo] 

On September 8, 1945, an elderly woman covered in flies, a victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, lies on the floor of a temporary hospital at the Hiroshima Kangyo Shinkin Bank.

 　　　　　　　Undisclosed photos of Japanese

 　　　　　　　A-bomb survivors

　　　U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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473734 Sept. 1945

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NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

OLD WOMAN, VICTIM OF ATOM BLAST, LIES IN HOSPITAL IN HIROSHIMA BANK (KANGO GINKO).

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER: MILLER, WAYNE, LT. 

TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR 15620

CLASSIFICATION: RELEASED

Postscript: An elderly woman covered in flies lies on the floor of a temporary hospital at the Hiroshima Kangyo Credit Union on September 8, 1945, a victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, named Little Boy, on Hiroshima, a city of about 300,000 people. Its power exceeded 20,000 tons of TNT explosives. According to U.S. statistics, the bomb killed between 60,000 and 70,000 people. Other statistics indicate that 10,000 went undetected and more than 70,000 were injured. Nearly two-thirds of the city was destroyed.

The Warsaw Uprising broke out on August 1, 1944, and on September 11 German soldiers attacked the City Hall and Blanka Palace as they emerged from Warsaw's Foča Street onto Teatralnyi Square. The bodies of male Warsaw citizens who had been shot and killed were scattered in front of the building.

 　The Warsaw Uprising broke out on August 1, 1944, and on September 11, German soldiers attacked the City Hall and the Blanka Palace as they emerged from Warsaw's Foča Street (now Moriera Street) onto Teatralnyi Square. In the foreground, the bodies of male Warsaw citizens who had been shot and killed were scattered. The new office building of Warsaw City Hall can be seen in the back. All life and traffic disappeared in the streets of Warsaw as the uprising was suppressed. The Polish insurgents, instigated by the British and the Soviet Union, brought misery to the previously peaceful residents of Warsaw. At the decisive moment, the Soviet Red Army betrayed the Poles, leaving behind rubble and ashes in which they did not intervene. During the Warsaw Uprising, the SS committed numerous brutal massacres.

　Beginning at 5 p.m. on August 1, 1944, first thousands of Warsaw citizens and Polish underground fighters rose up against the Germans, believing that the oncoming Soviet Red Army would soon liberate the city of Warsaw. However, the Soviet Red Army's relief efforts were largely unsuccessful, and the Warsaw residents held out for 63 days until October 2, when they were forced to surrender. Nearly 200,000 Warsaw citizens died during that time. The Polish rebels were outnumbered, but surprise attacks and familiarity with the city worked in their favor. During the first few days, Warsaw fighters in the resistance occupied strategic areas and forced the Germans to temporarily withdraw from the old city.

　Between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish insurgents participated in the Warsaw uprising, of whom about 18,000 were killed and 25,000 wounded. Civilian losses were enormous, with at least 180,000 people killed. About 500,000 of Warsaw's surviving residents were driven from the city, which was almost completely burned and demolished after the uprising. The Germans forced over half a million of the entire population into the transit camp of Pruszkow in the south, and many were deported to concentration camps.

　The citizens of Warsaw hoped that the Soviet Red Army would at least assist them with weapons and ammunition, but the Soviet Red Army ignored them. Stalin was not interested in the Polish insurgents, fearing that the Polish army would establish an anti-communist regime. The bitter urban war lasted 63 days and ended with the surrender of the Polish insurgents; when the Russians finally crossed the Vistula River to liberate Warsaw in January 1945, there were only about 1,000 survivors in the ruins.

During the Battle of Tarawa, 20 November 1943, US Marines sniped and killed a Japanese soldier. The Japanese soldier's body lay in a ditch, while Petty Officer Jennings posed with his gun at his side.

 　　During the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific War, U.S. Marines stormed Japanese positions on Tarawa Atoll on November 21, 1943. U.S. Marines sniped and killed a Japanese soldier. Petty Officer Jennings poses with his gun by the side of a dead Japanese soldier lying in a ditch. It was suggested that this Japanese sniper had the option of fighting and dying in battle with the Americans rather than being taken prisoner.

　The Battle of Tarawa was a World War II battle in the Pacific that broke out between November 20 and 23, 1943. The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers were scattered everywhere on Betio Island. The bodies of many Japanese soldiers killed in action were scattered in a maze of positions, trenches, and fortifications. Japanese soldiers died in battle after refusing to surrender to the U.S. forces. Japanese soldiers who committed suicide shot themselves to death by pulling the trigger of their rifles with their toes. He held a hand grenade to his body and detonated it to explode to death. Tanks and flamethrowers blew up and incinerated Japanese soldiers' hideouts, killing them in battle.

  About 18,000 U.S. Marines were sent to occupy the small, fortified Japanese island of Betio. Due to fierce resistance from some 4,500 Japanese soldiers hiding on Betio Island, the U.S. Marines landed on Betio Island on November 20. After some 76 hours of bloody fighting, the Marines finally captured Betio on November 23. In just three days of fighting at the Battle of Tarawa, more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in action and about 2,000 were wounded. The sheer number of battle casualties left the American public stunned at the number of casualties that occupied Betio Island. Japanese soldiers were annihilated, about 4,500 were killed in action, and about 146 Japanese soldiers and 129 Korean forced laborers were prisoners of war. 

During the Battle of Guadalcanal Island, many battleships with Japanese reinforcements aboard were sunk by American forces in the waters surrounding Guadalcanal Island, and the bodies of Japanese soldiers who were killed in action were washed ashore and scattered on the beaches in the Pacific Ocean.

　　 During the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific War, a number of battleships with Japanese reinforcements aboard were sunk by American forces in the waters surrounding Guadalcanal Island. The bodies of Japanese soldiers who were sunk in vain, submerged in the Pacific Ocean, and killed in action washed ashore and littered the beaches. Transport operations by Japanese destroyers and cruisers carrying reinforcements and supplies to Guadalcanal Island were conducted at night and were known as "rat transports.

　Japanese forces landed on Guadalcanal Island in the southern Solomon Islands on July 6, 1942, and began building an air base. On the night of August 8-9, Japanese cruisers and destroyers sank four American cruisers; from August 23-25, in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Japanese light aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines were sunk, and American destroyers were destroyed. On September 15, a Japanese submarine sank the aircraft carrier USS Wasp.

　The Japanese reinforced their Guadalcanal garrison of over 6,000 men and attacked the American beachhead on August 20-21 and September 12-14, and American reinforcements arrived on September 18. intercepted them. Two Japanese cruisers and two destroyers were sunk in the naval battles at Cape Esperance and the Santa Cruz Islands. The Americans had one aircraft carrier and two destroyers sunk, and from October 20 to 29 the Japanese unsuccessfully attacked to reinforce their ground forces.

　After October, American forces were further augmented: during the Battle of Guadalcanal from November 13-15, the Japanese sank two battleships, three destroyers, a cruiser, two submarines, and eleven transports. The Americans sank two cruisers and seven destroyers; on November 30, eight Japanese destroyers were repulsed in the Battle of Tassafaronga, one destroyer was sunk, and one Allied cruiser was sunk.

　By January 5, 1943, there were approximately 44,000 Allied troops on Guadalcanal, versus 22,500 Japanese. The Japanese decided to withdraw from Guadalcanal and carried off about 12,000 men in a destroyer sortie in early February. Japanese losses in the ground battle of Guadalcanal were approximately 24,000 men or more, while American losses were approximately 1,600 killed and 4,250 wounded. 

In 1904, several dead bodies of Herero people lay on the ground in Namibia, southwest Africa. Herero rebels attacked the under-construction Otavi railroad, resulting in the massacre of Herero railroad construction workers by German imperial troops.

　　 In 1904, several dead bodies of the Herero tribe lay on the ground in Namibia, southwest Africa. Herero rebels attacked the Otavi railroad under construction through their region. This was followed by a massacre of Herero railroad construction workers by the German Reich forces.

　 The German Reich's Kaiser Wilhelm II became the distributing power of the colony in the Partition of Africa Agreement of the Berlin Conference of November 15, 1884. A few years earlier, a German tobacco merchant named Adolf Rüderditz arrived in the Nigerian town of Lagos in 1881. He later plundered part of that territory in the town of Angra-Pekena on the Namibian coast. Von Bismarck declared Namibia a German protectorate on August 7, 1884.

　In Namibia in southwestern Africa, Herero chief Samuel Maharero rose in rebellion in 1896. He was followed by the Herero rebellion on January 11, 1904, when he attacked German troops and settlers. As a result, 123 German settlers were killed. The extremely cruel General Lothar von Tolosa was appointed to the German army. The Herero tribe, found on the German-occupied border, declared that they would shoot children and women, with or without rifles and with or without livestock. The endangered Nama people of the south also joined the rebellion. About 14,000 German troops crushed the Herero and Nama rebellion with a massacre. The Herero and Nama were shot, hung from trees, and quantitatively slaughtered in the desert due to hunger and thirst. A concentration camp set up on Shark Island in Lüderitz Bay held about 12,000 of the rebels. About 80% of the Herero population of Namibia was wiped out. After the Herero rebellion, some 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama were exterminated and expelled from Namibian lands. After losing World War I, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and lost all its colonies.

　 The Namibian genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century, when the Imperial German Army brutally oppressed Namibia's indigenous Herero and Nama people between 1904 and 1908.In 2004, the German government officially apologized for the Namibian genocide, and in 2019 the German Parliament called it genocide and described it as genocide.In May 2021, an agreement was signed to repair the damage done to Namibian victims.

During the Korean War, U.S. Marines were withdrawing from Changjin Reservoir during the Battle of Changjin Lake when the Chinese People's Volunteer Army suffered frozen casualties due to extremely cold weather. The infiltrated Chinese People's Volunteer Army stripped clothes from some frozen corpses of their own troops.

 　　During the Korean War, U.S. Marines were at the Battle of Changjin Lake, housing all the dead as they retreated from the Changjin Reservoir. The Chinese People's Volunteer Army in particular suffered battle casualties and non-combat casualties due to the extremely cold weather. The Chinese People's Volunteer Army, which had infiltrated there, stripped clothes from some frozen corpses of its own troops. After the intervention of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, American troops were forced to make the longest retreat in history.

　During the Battle of Changjin Lake in the Korean War, from November 27 to December 24, 1950, three corps of the 9th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army fought the 10th Army of the US Army, the best armed and equipped in the world, under starving and cold conditions. With only one artillery battalion in the CPC division, no heavy tanks, and no mobilizable air force, a fierce battle was fought in the area of Jangjin Lake in North Korea with small arms, mortars, and artillery firepower. North Korean forces resisted the U.S. invasion of the North, followed by the longest withdrawal of U.S. troops in history.

　On the evening of November 27, a blizzard swept across the sky, the northwesterly winds enveloping cotton ball-sized snowflakes, which fell one after another. The temperature at night dropped to about minus 40 degrees Celsius. That night, the 9th Army Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army completed its deployment around Jangjin Lake. The 20th Army took cover on the west side of Jangjin Lake, while the 27th Army ambushed U.S. forces north and northeast of Jangjin Lake.

 After the Chinese People's Volunteer Army entered the ambush against the U.S. 1st Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division, about 100,000 volunteer troops rushed into the U.S. forces like tigers descending from the mountains. The Battle of Changjin Lake broke out on November 27. After a night of fierce fighting, the American forces were surrounded by the valiant 9th Army Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. However, it was extremely difficult to eliminate the encircled American forces, which were divided into five directions, and the battle of Changjin Lake lasted for 17 days. Originally, the battle was to be a battle of encirclement and annihilation, but due to the extreme weather conditions and extremely inferior equipment, it turned into a battle of destruction.

　　During the period of the Battle of Changjin Lake, two U.S. Army divisions fell prey to the Chinese Communist Army's campaign of encirclement and annihilation, and suffered heavy casualties. After the Korean War, the U.S. Army announced its casualties: of the more than 14,000 casualties, 7,300 were frostbite, with frostbite accounting for half of the casualties. The 9th Army Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army suffered more than 40,000 casualties, 28,000 of whom died of frostbite; from December 15 to 24, 1950, some 69,000 UN troops and 64,000 civilian evacuees in North Korea were evacuated from the port of Xingnan, Hamhung, North Korea.

Soldiers of the Russian military's special attack unit stare next to the booby-trapped corpses of two Ukrainian fighters in Avdiivka, southern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, which they liberated in February 2024.

　　A soldier of the Russian Army's special attack unit stare down next to the corpses of two Ukrainian fighters in Avdiivka, southern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, which they liberated in February 2024. The corpses had been booby-trapped.

　On February 17, 2024, Ukrainian military commander-in-chief Oleksandr Shirsky announced his decision to withdraw his troops from Avdiivka. Russian forces subsequently gained the upper hand in the region by liberating Avdeyevka, a city in southern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Bodies littered not only houses but also the withdrawal route from Avdeevka.

　In a press report on March 18, 2024, the Kiev regime indicated that it was also struggling in the Kharkov region. The American media outlet Business Insider published an unusually candid article on the Donbass proxy conflict on March 18, acknowledging the heavy losses of Ukrainian troops in the northeast. The British "Times of London" report featured the testimony of a Ukrainian fighter who identified himself as "Lemur." He said, "Instead of advancing, we can barely hold the line. We have lost so many people, there are so many dead bodies, we can't even bring everyone back," the soldier confided about the war situation of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkov region.

　In the special operation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has lost 383,000 troops since the start of the special operation, Defense Minister Shoigu said on December 19, 2023. Essential to the Russian military offensive in the region is air control. They made extensive use of glide bombs that overwhelmed Ukraine's limited air defense capabilities. The Russian defense industry produced a steady stream of ammunition to overwhelm Ukrainian forces lurking behind ground fortifications. Newspapers reported that observers said that the Ukrainian military is still months away from the arrival of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which will enhance its air-to-air capabilities.

　Many Western leaders are pushing for continued support for Ukraine's Kiev regime. In this context, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, speaking for his country, is urging negotiations to end the conflict and halt the loss of human life. Fico said over the weekend, "If you are for peace and stop killing Slavs, then you are Putin's man," Fico said over the weekend, refuting what peace advocates often critique as allies of the Russian president.

Heavy scars appear from burns due to atomic bomb : " This 17 year old boy sustained burns from the atomic bomb explosion at Nagasaki. He was on his abdomen at the time. Burns have healed with formation of thick scars at some places. Scars on legs and hands are partially depigmented.

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THIS 17 YEAR OLD BOY SUSTAINED BURNS FROM THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT NAGASAKI. HE WAS ON HIS ABDOMEN AT THE TIME. BURNS HAVE HEALED WITH FORMATION OF THICK SCARS AT SOME PLACES. SCARS ON LEGS AND HANDS ARE PARTIALLY DEPIGMENTED.

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The Battle of Verdun in World War I was a peculiarly horrific trench warfare, and a group of French soldiers who cut barbed wire found the bodies of their fellow French soldiers on the barbed wire.

 　The Battle of Verdun in World War I was a peculiarly horrific trench warfare, and a group of French soldiers who cut barbed wire found the corpses of their comrades on the barbed wire. The French attackers struggled against the barbed wire but were brutally repulsed by the Germans. Hundreds of corpses were strewn across the wreckage launched by the tidal wave. Bodies lying on or in front of the barbed wire were strewn about. At the time of the French attack, there were no gaps in the German barbed wire.　

　The Battle of Verdun, which broke out on February 21, 1916, was preceded by artillery bombardment for the first time in history. Bombing to destroy the enemy caused deaths among trenches, batteries, and wire fences. It was the first attack to make extensive use of fighter planes to observe bombing and direct artillery fire.

　In the attack on Verdun, the French suffered some 944,000 dead or captured and over 1.5 million wounded. It was a purely German battlefield for the slaughter of French soldiers. Instead of invading a small territory, the Germans concentrated on annihilating the enemy inflicting as many losses as possible.

　Before launching the bombardment of the attack, the Germans attacked Alsace in the direction of Artois, an attack that deceived the French. Once the French were out of position, the Germans opened fire, and by dawn on February 21, some 2 million 380 and 420 mm shells had fallen on a front only about 4 km long. The Germans placed heavy artillery every 24 km and light artillery every 17.7 km. The German bombardment lasted about nine hours, and Verdun was almost completely destroyed and annihilated, turning the surrounding countryside into a scene of carnage, with thousands of smoking craters expanding.

　French infantry units were ordered to attack at 4 p.m. on February 21. Already decimated by artillery fire, French soldiers were bayoneted and burned alive. The Germans broke through at least 3.2 km of front line and three defensive lines, and when the impregnable fortress of Doumont fell on February 24, French Prime Minister Aristide Briand appointed Philippe Pétain as commander of the Verdun front.

　Even with two railroads, the Germans had difficulty transporting supplies to their troops. All resources were invested in vehicles and roads to level and widen the roads. Within a short time, the French transported large numbers of artillery along the eastern bank of the Meuse. Six divisions were brought in to replace the 20 divisions that had been destroyed by the Germans. The French 30th Corps alone suffered 680 dead and 3,200 wounded in one week, with 16,500 prisoners of war.

　Between February 27 and March 6, 190,000 French troops and some 23,000 tons of ammunition were transported by some 3,900 trucks from Bar-le-Duc to the Verdun front. Once the French formed their combat units, the fighting began again. Both sides made extensive use of flamethrowers and poison gas. Forts Doumont and Vaux were lost, recaptured, and occupied several times, and by the end of June, French losses totaled 179,000 killed or captured and 279,000 wounded. By December 19, when the Battle of Verdun ended, 500,000 men had been killed on the battlefield.

The Third Middle East War, a six-day war from June 5 to June 10, 1967, saw Israeli forces overwhelm Arab coalition forces. At the conclusion of the war, dead bodies of Israeli soldiers lay in the desert on the Syrian front where Israeli forces fought Syrian troops.

 In just six days of the Third Middle East War, from June 5 to June 10, 1967, Israeli forces overwhelmed Arab coalition forces. At the end of the Third Middle East War, the bodies of Israeli soldiers killed on the Syrian front, where Israeli forces fought Syrian troops, lay on the desert. Surviving Israeli soldiers wailed and prayed silently over the bodies of their fellow Israeli war dead. Israel called it the Six-Day War.

　On May 18, 1967, Arab Union President Nasser demanded the withdrawal of UN troops stationed in the Gaza Strip in the Sinai Peninsula. When the UN accepted the withdrawal, it declared a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba on May 22. UN Secretary General U Thant met with President Nasser in Cairo to resolve the situation. Meanwhile, preparations for fighting between Israeli and Arab coalition forces were underway.

　In the early morning hours of Monday, June 5, 1967, the Israeli Air Force targeted the Arab Coalition Air Force, almost destroying airplanes of the Arab countries. Israeli forces rapidly invaded the desert areas of the Sinai Peninsula from three directions, cutting off the approximately 100,000 Arab Coalition forces deployed in the Sinai Peninsula from retreat at the Mitla Pass. Israeli forces were on the defensive on the Syrian front. A fierce battle with Jordanian forces broke out around the Old City of Jerusalem.

　Israeli forces invaded the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, June 6, invading about two-thirds of the way from the Sinai Peninsula to the Suez Canal and occupying the Palestinian Gaza Strip in the northern Sinai Peninsula. Israeli forces headed for the former Jerusalem entered the Jerusalem city center, engaging in fierce battles with Jordanian forces. On the Syrian front, the Syrian army intensified its bombardment. The UN Security Council passed a resolution for an immediate ceasefire.

　On Wednesday, June 7, Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula reached a point about 35 km from the Suez Canal, beginning the full withdrawal of Arab coalition forces. Israeli forces occupied the Old City of Jerusalem and entered the Wall of Lamentation, a Jewish holy site. The blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba was lifted with the capture of Sharm el-Sheikh, which controls the Gulf. Jordan was entrusted with an immediate UN ceasefire.

　On Thursday, June 8, Israeli forces reached the Suez Canal, ending organized resistance in the Sinai Peninsula. The battleship Liberty was bombed by Israeli fighter planes as it sailed through the Mediterranean Sea off the northern Sinai Peninsula coast. The Arab coalition accepted the UN proposal for an immediate ceasefire.

　On Friday, June 9, Israeli forces broke through the Syrian defenses in several places with an onslaught on the Syrian army's mountain positions. President Nasser Arab Coalition announced his resignation, but the parliament and the public strongly demanded his withdrawal. Arab refugees in Jerusalem left and flowed into Jordanian territory.

　On Saturday, June 10, Israeli forces made a full-scale invasion from the Syrian front. Arab Coalition President Nasser withdrew his resignation statement. In the Six Day War, Arab Coalition forces suffered over 2,000 casualties. The Israeli army suffered less than 1,000 casualties.　

　On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Arab states invaded Israeli territory and the Palestinian War erupted, resulting in a truce in 1949; in the fall of 1956, the Nasser Arab Coalition declared the nationalization of the Suez Canal, which led to the Suez War. Israeli forces invaded the Sinai Peninsula; a truce was reached in November 1956, and the Gulf of Aqaba was declared an international waterway in the spring of 1957. With the end of the Six-Day War, the attitude of Middle Eastern countries toward Israel was cold, and even the U.S. demanded that Israeli troops withdraw from the occupied territories. Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin delivered a speech at the United Nations condemning Israel. Meanwhile, the Arab countries' desire for retaliation remained strong.

At the end of the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, Soviet soldiers charged the German army in an offensive in February 1943. On the way to the assault, the bodies of Soviet soldiers were strewn about.

　　 At the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet soldiers launched an offensive assault on German troops in February 1943. On the way to the assault, the bodies of Soviet soldiers were strewn about. In the background, railroad buildings lay in ruins. Tank shells rang out and artillery blasted. Soldiers from both armies were killed and wounded in the brutal urban warfare in the ruined city of Stalingrad. The fortified city was of great importance in the defense and was a major obstacle to attack.

　On the Eastern Front of World War II, German forces declared war on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and invaded Soviet territory at breakneck speed. German forces attacked Stalingrad beginning on August 23, 1942, and on September 12 German troops raided the city of Stalingrad. It was accompanied by heavy casualties, with about 60% of both German and Soviet generals killed in action. Stalin issued Order No. 227 to the Soviet forces on July 28, ordering them "not to retreat a single step," and warning that any troops who retreated would be shot dead. Despite the German raid, Soviet Stalingrad did not fall. On the contrary, the Soviets began a reverse siege of the German city on November 19; the Germans surrendered on February 2, 1943, and the Soviets retook Stalingrad, taking nearly 100,000 German soldiers as prisoners of war. Only about 6,000 POWs survived to return to their native Germany.

　Both armies fought at close quarters with over one million men, and the Axis forces (German, Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian) suffered about 800,000 casualties, while the Red Army suffered about one million. An important factor in the Soviet victory was the cold winter. The Battle of Stalingrad almost assured that Germany was on the road to defeat on the Eastern Front.

Bodies of dead Hutu Rwandan government soldiers lay scattered everywhere after the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi rebel group, liberated the capital, Kigali, on July 4, 1994.

　 After the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi rebel group, liberated the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on July 4, 1994, corpses of Hutu soldiers from the Rwandan government forces were found lying and scattered everywhere From April to June the RPF launched an offensive from northern Rwanda, gradually taking control of large From April to June, the RPF gradually brought large parts of Rwanda under its control. They surrounded Kigali, cutting off supply routes, and began fighting over the capital, Kigali, in mid-June. The RPF took control of Kigali on July 4, as Rwandan government forces focused more on genocide than fighting in Kigali.

　The Rwandan Patriotic Front was founded in December 1987 by exiled Rwandan Tutsis in Uganda in response to the Rwandan Hutu violence of the 1959-1962 Rwandan Hutu revolution; in 1990, the RPF overthrew the Hutu-dominated government as the Rwandan civil war broke out. Then, in 1994, genocide broke out against the Tutsis, which ended with the RPF overrunning the entire country on July 4. In the months after the RPF took control, RPF soldiers participated in the genocide, killing many of those who had supported the Rwandan Genocide, bringing the death toll to 100,000. Since then, the RPF has ruled Rwanda as a one-party dictatorship, and Paul Kagame, the leader of the RPF, has been Rwandan president since 2000.

　The Rwandan civil war became a major civil war between Rwandan government forces and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from October 1, 1990 to July 18, 1994; the RPF guerrilla war continued until mid-1992, when neither side was able to gain the upper hand. Peace negotiations ended temporarily with the signing of the Arusha Accords on August 4, 1993. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) was stationed in Rwanda from October 5, 1993 to March 1996 to oversee implementation of the Arusha Accords, but failed to intervene militarily in the Rwandan genocide of April 7 to July 19, 1994. The day after the assassination of President Habyarimana, the peace agreement was broken and anarchy ensued, with Hutu Rwandan government forces killing some 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

During the Korean War, an American soldier was the first to be killed in action near Jochiwon on July 3, 1950. A U.S. Army medic performed an autopsy on the corpse by raising the head and taking the pulse.

　　During the Korean War, an American soldier was the first to be killed in action near Jochiwon on July 3, 1950. An American medic performed an autopsy on the corpse by elevating the head and taking the pulse. The battle of Jochiwon broke out from July 9 to July 11, and on July 8, the American troops retreated to Jochiwon after an urban battle developed in Cheonan City.

　At around 3 p.m. on July 9, a North Korean tank unit invaded the retreating Jochiwon position, and at 6 a.m. on July 10, the North Koreans sent a reconnaissance team ahead and fired heavily to confirm the deployment status of the American forces by whether they returned fire. They then launched a mortar attack. At 8:30 a.m., American soldiers were attacked by mortar positions in the rear. At 9:00 a.m., the North Korean forces began a full-scale attack. At 11:35 a.m., the North Koreans occupied the left side of the American battalion and attacked the front line and even the left rear. Mistakenly believing that the North Koreans were on the verge of falling or had fallen, the U.S. forces launched a furious fire on their own positions. American soldiers left their positions one after another. At 12:05 p.m., the U.S. troops finally decided to retreat and issued an order. They were ambushed as they carried mortar shells from Torichi-in to the outpost.

　At about 1:00 a.m. on July 11, American troops arrived at the 1st Battalion's position. North Korean troops and guerrillas entered the position. At 9:30 a.m. on July 12, a North Korean battalion attacked the left side of the American battalion amid supporting artillery fire and pushed in from the opposite side, disrupting the American battalion around noon. On July 12, the U.S. forces withdrew from Joriwon to the southern bank of Geumgang.

On December 8, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces blindfolded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stripped them of their underwear, bound their hands, and placed them on the back of a truck; they collectively arrested Palestinian men, ranging from teenagers to old men, and stripped them of their clothes.

   On December 8, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces blindfolded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stripped them of their underwear, bound their hands and placed them on the back of a truck. The Israel Defense Forces collectively arrested Palestinian men, ranging from teenagers to old men, and stripped them of their clothes. Gazan civilians arrested by the Israel Defense Forces shared the pain of disappearance, humiliation, and torture. The Israel Defense Forces detained thousands of Palestinians. The Israel Defense Forces defended them from wearing explosive belts. In addition, prisoners were held half-naked for hours.

　Dr. Mohammed al-Ran, a released prisoner, said he was held for several weeks to serve as a liaison and interpreter between guards and prisoners after the Israel Defense Forces eliminated his ties to Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces denies holding prisoners any longer than necessary. When taken by force, they were stripped down to their underwear, handcuffed, blindfolded, and thrown on top of the nearly naked prisoners in the back of a truck. Israel's revised law allowed for detention for up to 75 days without judicial approval and 90 days without access to a lawyer if classified as an illegal combatant. Israeli medical personnel faced ethical, professional, and even emotional distress.

　The Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert in southern Israel was converted and expanded by the Israel Defense Forces into a Palestinian detention camp after October 7, 2023. Serious human rights obstacles reported, including deaths by electric stick, rape orders in the Gaza Strip, and UN personnel made to sit on hot metal rods. Allegations of rape against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accompanied the allegations. Prisoners were handcuffed until it was determined that they were not a security threat. They warned that martyrdom was better than being captured and housed in a Sde Taiman filled with the stench of decay. Prisoners were diapered, unable to use the toilet, bound hand and foot, and blindfolded. Divided into enclosures where they were placed under extreme physical restraints and field hospitals where the wounded were strapped to beds, diapered, and fed through straws, by late May 2024 some 1,000 detainees had been forcibly confined to the Sde Tayman facility for up to three months.　

Warning: Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with blindfolded Palestinians in Gaza, December 8, 2023 (AP Photo)

Kiku Tsuji suffered burns on both legs from the Nagasaki bomb, about 2.4 km from the hypocentre. The healing of the left leg was prolonged. Large amounts of scar tissue recurred in the area after the skin graft and on the thigh from which the skin graft was removed.

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"BURNS OF NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR HEAL WITH HEAVY SCAR TISSUE:" KIWA TSUJI SUSTAINED BURNS OF BOTH LEGS FROM THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT NAGASAK!. HEALING OF THE LEFT LEG WAS PROLONGED. A LARGE AMOUNT OF SCAR TISSUE RECORRED IN THE AREAS AFTER SKIN GRAFTING HEAVY SCAR TISSUE ALSO APPEARED IN DO NOR SITES ON THE THIGHS USED FOR SKIN GRAFTING. SHE WAS ABOUT 2.2 KM. FROM THE GROUND CENTER AT THE TIME OF THE EXPLOSTON.

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The British Special Raid Force command suffered heavy casualties in a raid on the French port of Saint-Nazaire in March 1942. German soldiers invaded through the side of the war dead British NCOs they had swept up and killed.

  The British Special Raid Force command suffered heavy casualties in a raid on the French port of Saint-Nazaire in March 1942. German soldiers invaded through the side of the dead bodies of British NCOs who had been swept away and killed. The surprise raid on the port of Saint-Nazaire resulted in the loss of about 782 commandos, the largest casualty.

　In a sense of crisis and to defend the British home front in the face of successive defeats since the outbreak of the Second World War, the British commando went to the German lines, prepared to die. The commando was a British military unit, organised as a special surprise force, not as a conscript, but as a recruited and volunteered force.

　The Command crossed the English Channel and raided the port of St Nazaire, ramming its destroyers into the sluices of the docks used by the German battleships, rendering the docks unusable. In the Boer War (1899-1902), a 250,000-strong British force was called the Command from a Boer military unit that resisted for almost two years. On the midnight of 23-24 June 1940, 19 days after the formation of the commando force, the first surprise raid was made from Boulogne to Lutzke; on the night of 14 July, a surprise raid was made on the German garrison on Guernsey Island in the English Channel.

　Command's surprise raid on the port of Saint-Nazaire at the mouth of the Loire River in western France was the largest of its kind. It destroyed the German docks at the Great Water Gate on the Atlantic coast of France. Suffering from a lack of beaches to land on, on 26 March 1942 a commando raiding party left the British port of Falmouth; on 28 March the Germans caught the commando by searchlights from both banks of the Loire and opened heavy fire on them. A British destroyer slammed into the sluice. Command dared to land but was hit by machine-gun fire. Command was evacuated to the south shore of St Nazaire harbour under fire. They came under fire at a tochka and a building near the turning bridge. About 20 commandos surrendered in air-raid shelters and were forcibly taken to German headquarters. They were housed by truck in a restaurant in Lahore, about 20 km west of the port of Saint Nazaire. The SS massacred them at close range. Some commands that were able to land from the motor launch suffered heavy casualties and were wiped out.

On January 22, 1965, Buddhists forced a protest demonstration against the U.S. Embassy. Vietnamese government police and special forces surrounded the U.S. Embassy and opened fire on the Buddhist demonstrators, wreaking havoc on the demonstrators and resulting in numerous arrests and casualties.

 　A Buddhist uprising in Vietnam forced Buddhists to protest against the U.S. Embassy on January 22, 1965, to demand that the U.S. government stop supporting the cabinet of Prime Minister Tran Van Phong of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, which oppresses Buddhists. Vietnamese government police and special forces surrounded the U.S. Embassy and opened fire on the Buddhist demonstrators, wreaking havoc on the demonstrators and resulting in numerous arrests and casualties.In January 1965, Phuong expanded military spending with U.S. aid and equipment and increased the size of his army by expanding draft requirements.

  The Buddhist crisis sparked a civil resistance movement from May to November 1963, led mainly by Buddhist monks, against a series of repressive actions against Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. In protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Jem regime in South Vietnam, Quang Duc immolated himself in front of the Cambodian embassy. The monk's self-immolation won the World Press Photo Award and became the starting point for Ngo Dinh Jem's assassination.

　After the assassination of South Vietnam's first president, Ngo Dinh Jem, on November 2, 1963, South Vietnam continued a period of sustained and severe instability, with multiple failed coups and other failed insurgencies over the next year and a half. Apart from personal rivalries among senior officers, civil strife was also stirred by conflicts among religious pressure movements. Buddhists lobbied for the removal of the pro-Catholic policies of the Go Dinh Gem regime. The officers who had risen rapidly through the ranks by vigorously implementing Go Dinh Jem's policy of converting to Catholicism also called for the abolition of the pro-Catholic policy. On the other hand, Catholics, whose privileges were rolled back after Ngo Dinh Jem's assassination, accused General Nguyen Khanh's regime of persecuting them in favor of Buddhists. Religious riots also broke out during this period.