Monday, September 30, 2024

The Germans shot and killed about 200 Soviet prisoners of war in Pyatigorsk, Soviet Union. The Germans left the bodies of the Soviet POWs lying in state until then so that their relatives could come to bury the bodies.

   The Germans shot and killed about 200 POWs in Pyatigorsk, USSR. The Germans usually left the bodies of the POWs lying in state until then so that their relatives could come to bury the bodies. When the Soviet troops approached Pyatigorsk, the Germans took hundreds of Soviet soldiers, commanders, and civilians whom they had taken prisoner under the pretext of evacuating them to Germany, out of the city and shot them dead with machine guns.

 On the Eastern Front of World War II, German forces occupied Pyatigorsk, located in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia, on August 9, 1942. The headquarters of Einsatzgruppe D was located in Pyatigorsk in 1942. The German occupation resulted in the murder of many Jewish residents of the region; on January 11, 1943, Soviet troops liberated Pyatigorsk.

 On August 9, 1942, the German First Panzer Army invaded more than 480 km in less than two weeks, reaching Mykop at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. The western oil fields near Maikop were occupied in a commando operation on August 8-9. The Soviet Red Army had destroyed enough of the oil fields that it took about a year to repair them. Shortly thereafter, on August 9, Pyatigorsk was occupied; on August 12, Krasnodar was taken, and German mountain troops raised the Nazi flag on Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the Caucasus.

   At the end of July 1942, during the German summer offensive, the Third Army invaded from the lower Don River to the south and southeast. The 1st Panzer Army invaded as far south as Maikop, south of Rostov, while the 4th and 17th Armies invaded as far as Pyatigorsk, reaching as far as the Caucasus As of December 1942, the Germans had withdrawn from the conquered territories and impassable mountain areas. Approximately 130,000 German soldiers and more than 340,000 Soviet soldiers and Soviet civilians fell victim to the terrible offensive. Many of the missing soldiers were killed in action, either marching or fighting in the Caucasus Mountains.



During the uprising of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, a member of the Hungarian Communist secret police (ÁVH) was shot dead by Hungarian rebels in summary execution in the capital Budapest.

  Members of the Hungarian Communist secret police (ÁVH) were shot dead by Hungarian rebels in summary execution in the capital Budapest during the uprising of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution ÁVH secret police officers held up their hands to protect themselves. The debris-lined sidewalks were littered with the dead and critically wounded bodies of the security police officers. 

 Hungary's State Protection Service, known as “Ávos,” the Hungarian political police (ÁVH: Allamvelmi Hatosag), was created from 1945 to 1956. between 1945 and 1952, it enforced much cruelty, brutality, and many political purges. the 1956 Hungarian revolution During the ÁVH, a group of rebels tracked down and killed suspected ÁVH officers and informants. As the revolution began, a crowd of thousands stormed the police headquarters in Budapest, standing on the roof of the iconic communist building and shouting slogans. The police chief, fearing for his own life and that of his officers, allowed the crowd to enter the building and bring in any political prisoners they wished.

 The Hungarian Revolution, which erupted from a student movement in the capital Budapest on October 23, 1956, was followed on October 29, 1956, when the Dudás militia attacked the secret police headquarters in Budapest and massacred the AVH inside. Hungarian citizens organized revolutionary militias to fight the ÁVH, and local Hungarian communist leaders and ÁVH policemen were captured and summarily executed. The fighting was fierce and relentless, and even when ÁVH personnel, surrounded and out of ammunition, surrendered, they were shot to death by insurgents; the bodies of ÁVH officers were hung upside down in trees, spit on by the crowd, and repeatedly beaten.

  Soviet troops invaded Hungary on November 4, 1956 to suppress the Hungarian revolution and fought the Hungarian revolutionaries until the Soviet victory on November 10. 26,000 people were arrested and brought before Hungarian courts; 22,000 were sentenced and imprisoned; 13,000 were interned; and 229 were executed. The repression of the Hungarian uprising resulted in the deaths of 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet soldiers, and about 200,000 Hungarians were forced into political displacement.



Saturday, September 28, 2024

This was a railroad car tray in a special laboratory at the 406th Medical Laboratory's Special Laboratory Railroad Car Tray in USA at night by members of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (Dr. A. Baues, J. Neel, 1st Lt. MC) and Dr. Masao Tsuzuki (University of Tokyo).

              Undisclosed photos of Japanese

        A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

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6. DECEMBER 1946

THE 406TH MEDICAL LABORATORY'S SPECIAL LABORATORY RAILROAD CAR TRAY, SHOWN IN USE AT NIGHT BY MEMBERS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, CASUALTY COMMISSION (DR. A. BAUES, J. NEEL, 1ST LT. MC) AND DR. M. TSUZUKI, DECEMBER. 1946.

PHOTOGRAPHER DR. HENSHAW

Laboratories

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION

BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Photograph by Signal Corps. U.S. Army 

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On February 20, 2024, a Russian military training ground in the Tordyvsk region of the Donetsk Oblast was attacked. The fighters were organized and were waiting for the Russian general. The Ukrainian military used cluster bombs, killing 65 Russian soldiers.

  In the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian sources reported that on February 20, 2024, a Russian military training ground in the Tordyvsk region of the Donetsk Oblast was attacked. In Tordyvsk, a group of fighters was being formed at one of the training grounds, and they were waiting for a Russian general. The Ukrainian military used cluster munitions, and as a result, 65 Russian soldiers were killed.

  Russian regiments and brigades have a bad habit of openly massing their troops in broad daylight, just 10 or 20 miles from the front line of Russia's two-year-long massive war against Ukraine. Whether for training or for high-level inspections, the 10 or 20 miles within the range of the Ukrainian American M30/31 rocket, which is the main ammunition for the wheeled high-mobility artillery rocket system, So it is not surprising that the Ukrainian side twice spotted these rallies with drones and shelled them over the course of two days from February 20, 2024. It is reported that many Russians were killed.

  The first attack targeted soldiers from the 39th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army in Tordyvsk, eastern Ukraine, on February 20. Two companies of infantrymen were lined up so that the commander, Colonel G. Musaev, could give a speech to the 29th Combined Arms Army Commander, Air Force General Oleg Lubovich Moiseev. It is reported that while General Moiseev was on the move, a Ukrainian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft arrived overhead and fired a HIMARS. The front line was located in the area around Vuhledar, which is only about 32km to the west. The HIMARS was able to fire GPS-guided M30/31 rockets, each of which contained 182,000 tungsten balls, up to 91.7km away. Video and photographs taken by survivors showed a pile of dead Russian soldiers. It was reported that 65 Russian soldiers, including General Moiseev, had been killed. One of the survivors muttered as he recorded the devastation of the battlefield, “Those damn commanders lined up the Russian soldiers in a field, and the field was scattered with corpses.” The Russian military reported on the Ukrainian military's attack on the Russian infantry units that had been lined up in the Donetsk region. A similar attack occurred in the Olesky Forest area of the Kherson region on February 21.


















Warning: The aftermath of the Trudivs'ke raid.(Via social media) Harrowing footage taken by horrified survivors shows how dozens of bodies were left strewn across a pockmarked, charred field in the aftermath of the strike, At least 65 Russian soldiers standing in formation were killed.

Friday, September 27, 2024

On March 10th 1945, the bodies of countless civilians who had been killed in the fire caused by the American air raid were left on the streets of Hanakawado in Asakusa, in evacuation shelters and in bomb shelters.

   On March 10th 1945, the bodies of countless civilians who had been killed in the fires caused by the American air raids were left on the roads of Hanakawado in Asakusa, in evacuation shelters and in bomb shelters.

   B-29 bombers with a cruising range of about 6,019km bombed Tokyo from high altitudes of over 9km, where the Japanese army's defenses were weak. B-29s from the airfields on Saipan and Tinian were able to bomb Japan. The bombers, which increased the range of their bombing and caused more damage, flew at a height of about 1,400 to 2,400 meters and dropped incendiary bombs to set fire to wooden and paper buildings. Flames soared high into the night sky, and flashes of light danced across the ground in every dark corner. Fifteen minutes after the bombing began, the fires engulfed the densely packed wooden cities of Japan.

The residents of Tokyo remained in their homes even after the bombs were dropped, following orders to defend their homes. Thousands of bombs rained down on them as the fire wind blew. The napalm bombs scattered in a cylindrical shape as they fell, and they fell along the roofs, burning everything and spreading waves of dancing flames. It knocked people down and burned everything it touched. Screaming families tried to escape, but it was already too late.

   The smoke was thick and the hot wind burned their lungs as they struggled and writhed, eventually dying in the flames. The evacuees, carrying their belongings, gathered in the few empty spaces they could find, such as intersections, gardens and parks. Their belongings burned faster than their clothes, and the crowd was engulfed in flames from within. Hundreds of people gave up on escaping and died burnt to death in the holes they had taken refuge in. Houses collapsed and burned down on top of them, and they died burnt to death in the holes. In the rivers, they threw themselves into the water. The wind and fire created huge whirlpools of incandescent air that whirled around, sucking entire houses into the vortex of fire. They did not drown, but suffocated from the burning air and smoke. The rivers flowed directly into the Sumida River, and the rising tide caused people to crowd together and drown. In Asakusa and Honjo, people fell from bridges into the river and were swept away. Thousands of people crowded into the parks and gardens that lined both banks of the Sumida River.

   They crowded into the narrow land of Tokyo, and the walls collapsed and they disappeared into the deep water. Thousands of drowned bodies were recovered from the mouth of the Sumida River. In this air raid, which caused the greatest damage of World War II, 330 B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, starting fires that killed over 100,000 people, burned down a quarter of the city, and left 1 million people homeless. The Strategic Bombing Survey estimated that the number of people killed in the air raids was 87,793, the number injured was 40,918, and the number of people who lost their homes was 1,008,005. It stated that the number of people killed, including men, women and children, was estimated to be over 100,000, the number injured was 1 million, and the number of people who lost their homes was 1 million. The Tokyo Fire Department estimated that 97,000 people had died and 125,000 had been injured. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced that the combined number of dead and injured was 124,711, and that 286,358 buildings and houses had been damaged.


 



Thursday, September 26, 2024

A notice board in front of the public prosecutor's office in the Andong region of Gyeongsangbuk-do on the Korean Peninsula displayed a picture of a volunteer soldier with his head cut off as an example, as well as a reward for information about the volunteer soldier. A police substation displayed a wanted poster with a picture of the volunteer soldier and a list of wanted people with the charges against them.

  A notice board in front of the public prosecutor's office in the Andong region of Gyeongsangbuk-do on the Korean Peninsula displayed a photo of a volunteer soldier with his head cut off as an example, as well as a reward for information on the volunteer soldier. A police substation displayed a wanted poster with the photo of the volunteer soldier and a list of wanted people with the charges against them. The term “volunteer soldier” suggested soldiers who were soldiers of justice or soldiers who stood up for justice.

  On August 29th 1910, the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty came into effect, and Japan raised the Japanese flag at Gyeongbok Palace to symbolize the seizure of national sovereignty through the Japan-Korea Annexation of the Korean Peninsula. The Uibyeong voluntarily sacrificed themselves to prevent the tragic suffering of the Korean people and to save the dying nation of Korea. The First Uibyeong was formed in 1895, immediately after the Japanese army invaded Gyeongbokgung and assassinated Empress Myeongseong, under the leadership of Yi Jeong-seok of the Weejeong Jeokja Faction under the leadership of Yi Sun-sin, the Yi-gun resistance movement broke out across the country until 1896. After the Gwangmu Reforms of 1894, the pro-Japanese cabinet of Kim Hong-jip was formed, and the Yi-gun resistance movement was established.

The second anti-Japanese volunteer army was formed in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do, on March 16th 1906 under the leadership of Min Jong-shik, a former vice-minister, after the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty of 1905. The volunteer army's struggle against the Japanese military and police sparked a nationwide volunteer army movement that spread like wildfire. On January 3rd 1905, two days after the Gyeongbu Line railway opened, the Japanese army publicly executed the Uibyeong, framing them for a conspiracy to destroy the railway. In May 1906, in order to suppress the Uibyeong movement that had spread nationwide, the Japanese army established military police detachments in 12 locations across the country. When the Japanese military and police captured the Uibyeong in various parts of the Korean Peninsula, they would hang them from the spot without trial and execute them publicly.

  The lower ranks of the Uibyeong were made up of ordinary Uibyeong, including members of the same clan, members of the village association, house servants, farmers tied to the land, and villagers from the same village or neighboring villages. Defeated soldiers, government soldiers, and displaced people joined them. The Uibyeong affiliated with the government forces fought on the battlefield, while the ordinary Uibyeong stayed to defend their hometowns. With the main objective of defending their hometowns, they operated in the areas around where they lived. The spread of equipment was also inferior to that of the government forces. It was even more difficult to supply weapons to the civilian volunteers, as they could become unruly if they were given weapons and turned into a mob.



Wednesday, September 25, 2024

On April 15th 1918, near Rheims in France, the bodies of two dead American soldiers were scattered around the trenches. The American army's messenger unit used carrier pigeons to send messages because the telephone lines had been cut.

   On April 15th 1918, near Rheims in France, the bodies of two dead American soldiers were scattered around the walls of a trench. The American army's signal corps used carrier pigeons to send messages because the telephone lines had been cut. In the trenches on the front line of World War I, the American army's signal corps sent messages by carrier pigeon because the telephone lines had been cut by German shells. Even with the violence and persistence of the bombing that destroyed the ground troops and telephone and telegraph networks, and prevented the carrier pigeons, the carrier pigeon communication method was chosen at the expense of other carrier pigeons.

   Pigeons were used in armed conflicts. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, European armies established pigeon squadrons. It is estimated that the death, injury and disappearance rate of pigeons during World War I did not exceed 5%. By the end of World War I, thousands of pigeon houses were being used on the Western Front. The US Army had 20,000 pigeons, the Italian Army had 50,000, the French Army had 60,000, and the German Army had 150,000. Only around 5% of pigeons died during their missions during the war. The French Army even awarded medals to pigeons that had died after carrying messages during the Battle of Verdun.

   In September 1870, during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, an estimated 800 carrier pigeons sent over 40,000 messages. On March 26, 1896, a French shipping company sent pigeons across the sea for the first time. 80 pigeons were released from a steamship in groups of three. In 1912, small cameras were attached to birds using harnesses and used by photographers. From February to March 1917, the German army used carrier pigeons to communicate with the front line , and retreated to the Hindenburg Line. On October 4th 1918, the carrier pigeon Cher Ami saved the lives of 194 French soldiers. The pigeon was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the Palme for its heroic achievement. 



Tuesday, September 24, 2024

German troops invading Yugoslavia killed and hanged 36 Serb civilians in Panchevo in April 1942 in retaliation for partisans who had fired on the Wehrmacht.

  German troops invading Yugoslavia killed and hanged 36 Serb civilians in the city of Panchevo in retaliation for partisans who had fired on the Wehrmacht. The Panchevo Executions carried out summary executions of 36 Serbian civilians in Panchevo on April 21-22, 1941, during World War II. The executions were carried out by German troops, especially units of the German Frontier Division. The ambush was a false flag operation and was organized by local German troops.

 On the morning of April 21, 1941, the Germans and the Waffen-SS arrested 100 people from various parts of Panchevo; 40 of the 100 appeared before a military tribunal. After the military tribunal, 36 Serbs were sentenced to death and four were declared innocent. The executions were carried out by German troops supported by the Kulturbund and Waffen SS. Half were hanged and the other half were executed by firing squad. The bodies were displayed publicly for three days after the executions.

 German troops invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in early April 1941; on April 21, 1941, four men were shot dead. The next day, April 22, 1941, 18 people were hanged and 14 were shot dead. The hangings took place in the Old Orthodox Church Cemetery, and the families of the hanged were forced to come to the cemetery to watch the executions. A large number of local Germans witnessed the hangings and shootings. All were from Panchevo, except for those from the suburbs of Panchevo. The bodies of all the victims, both hanged and shot, were left for 24 hours for burial by their relatives. The four victims shot the day before were buried at the same time.

 Numerous dozens of photographs of the crime were preserved. Photographs of the staged trial, victims being taken to the execution site, and executions of both hangings in the cemetery and shootings along the cemetery wall at Novoselyansky Put were preserved. They were taken by Wehrmacht photographer Gerhard Groenefeldt, but otherwise by Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer of the National Socialist Party.




Monday, September 23, 2024

Due to the Jinan Incident in China that broke out on May 3rd, 1928, Japanese soldiers guarded the city of Jinan in May 1928. The bodies of Jinan citizens were scattered on the streets of Jinan.

   Due to the Jinan Incident in China, Japanese soldiers guarded the city of Jinan in May 1928. The bodies of Jinan citizens were scattered on the streets of Jinan. On May 3, 1928, the Japanese army began an attack on the Kuomintang army in Jinan, Shandong Province. Due to the Kuomintang army's compromise, concession, and order to not resist, many Chinese soldiers and civilians were massacred.

   The Jinan Incident broke out on May 3rd, 1928. Jinan is a commercial city in Shandong Province, where many foreigners, including the Japanese, lived. A large-scale clash between Chinese warlords occurred in Jinan. In order to protect the Japanese residents, the Japanese military was dispatched to Jinan in late April 1928. The Japanese military sent a small number of troops, and their aim was to protect the Japanese residents. The Japanese troops built barricades on the commercial wharf outside the Jinan city walls to prevent the fighting from spreading.

   When the National Revolutionary Army occupied Jinan, Japan intervened under the pretext of protecting Japanese nationals, and on May 3rd 1928, they brutally murdered 17 diplomats, including Cai Gongshi, a member of the Shandong Provincial Government, and forcibly occupied the city of Jinan. Approximately 6,123 Chinese civilians and Chinese soldiers were killed in the massacre. On February 28th 1929, the Japanese government reached an agreement with the Kuomintang government and withdrew the Japanese troops from Jinan, bringing the Jinan Incident to an end.

    On May 3rd 1928, the Manchurian Daily News was attacked by soldiers from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army. The looting by the Kuomintang soldiers was terrible, and everyone from Chinese police officers to government officials took part in the looting. When the riots broke out, their usual duties and so on became completely irrelevant. The crowd, armed with weapons, also began to run amok, and the army's control was ineffective. The rioters also assaulted the Japanese police officers who had rushed to the scene in large numbers.The Japanese Army sent a rescue team to the scene. The Chinese soldiers fled and hid in the Nationalist Party barracks, where they continued to fire on the Japanese. The whole of Jinan city became a scene of carnage, and many Japanese residents were slaughtered by Chinese rioters.



Sunday, September 22, 2024

On May 11th 2024, a Palestinian man covered the bodies of children killed by Israeli shelling in the garden of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital in Deir al-Bala, in the central Gaza Strip.

  On May 11th 2024, amid the continuing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement in Palestine, a Palestinian man covered the bodies of children killed by Israeli shelling in the garden of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital in Deir al-Bala, in the central Gaza Strip.

  The United Nations announced on May 13 that the death toll in the Gaza Strip still exceeds 35,000, but that not all bodies have been identified. The number of bodies whose identities have been fully confirmed is 24,686. This figure includes the confirmed bodies (7,797 children, 4,959 women, 1,924 elderly people, and 10,006 men). There were still more than 10,000 bodies whose identities had not been fully confirmed.

  The UN team in Gaza said that due to the huge number of casualties in the Israel-Palestinian war, the UN investigation team was unable to independently verify the figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health. The UN investigation team said the actual number of dead could be higher. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) also expressed concern about the limited humanitarian access in Gaza, saying it was a “life-and-death issue” for people living in the besieged area.

 On May 13, the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of manipulating the figures for the number of dead. Israel questioned the sudden halving of the number of women and children reported dead by the Gaza Ministry of Health. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the Gaza Ministry of Health had a good data collection and analysis capacity, and that its previous reports had been reliable.











Warning: A Palestinian man covers the bodies of children killed in Israeli bombardment, in the yard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dayr al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 11, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

A Japanese painter sketched the ruins of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in September 1945. The American military atomic bomb survey team photographed the Japanese painter.

      Undisclosed photos of Japanese

        A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

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473752 September 1945

SUBJECT:

CAPTION:

JAPANESE ARTIST SKET SCETCHES RESULTS OF HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB BLAST.

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER: MILLER, WAYNE, LI. TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR-15644

CLASSIFICATION: RELEASED


Postscript: Keizo Takamasu, aged 45, took up his paintbrush in the ruins left by the atomic bomb. He was a teacher at the Hiroshima Prefectural School for the Deaf in the center of Hiroshima, and was searching for his remaining relatives when he was photographed by Miller Wayne of the US Army. His eldest son, who was with him, wrote in his diary at the time that it was September 9th, 1945. Keizo Takamasu made a sketch of Hachobori, and 17 other pictures were left behind. These were the “Sketch of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb” that he drew in the early stages of the war. In order to avoid air raids, he moved to Yoshida-machi, about 45km north of the city, with his eldest son and eldest daughter in April 1945. From Yoshida-machi, they could see the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, and his father, Keizo Takamasu, sketched it. He had also drawn a picture scroll of the Great Tokyo Fire of September 1, 1923, which killed around 140,000 people. On August 14, 1945, Keizo Takamasu and his two children entered Hiroshima City to check on the situation at their home and school, and were exposed to radiation. However, they were unable to obtain an A-bomb Survivor's Health Handbook.


Friday, September 20, 2024

The Shakee Massacre broke out on June 23, 1925 in the Guangzhou area of Guangdong Province, China, and resulted in the death or injury of over 200 Chinese demonstrators from gunfire by British and French soldiers, leaving bodies strewn about.

 沙基大虐殺は中国広東省広州市の地域で1925年6月23日に勃発して、イギリス軍兵士とフランス軍兵士による銃撃で200人以上の中国人デモ参加者の死傷者を出した。イギリス軍とフランス軍とポルトガルの軍艦が砲撃して、50人以上が死亡して、170人以上が負傷した。死者の中には、13歳の子供1人、学生4人、教師1人、商人9人、労働者6人、ワンポア陸軍士官学校の学生と教師27人(ロシア人2人も死亡)が含まれた。広州は、周恩来が共産主義インターナショナルの指導の下でデモやストライキを計画した。

 1925年6月22日、中国労働組合連盟の主催により開催された各界代表広州会議は、6月23日に広州市民大会を開催し、大規模なデモを行うことを決定した。6月23日、デモ隊はあらかじめ決められたルートに沿って進んだ。労働者や学生に加え、農民や商人、黄埔軍官学校の学生なども参加し、その数は約5万から6万人に上った。正午に大衆集会が開催され、非常に興奮した雰囲気となった。午後1時30分に、デモ行進が始まった。隊列はスローガンを叫び、沿道にビラを撒きながら進んだ。

 1925年6月23日午後2時40分に、デモ隊が沙面租界の対岸である沙地を整然と行進した際に、イギリス軍兵士とフランス軍兵士にデモ隊に対して機関銃を撃つよう命じて、突然激しい銃声が響いた。イギリス・フランス・ポルトガルの軍艦も威嚇的に砲撃し、その場で50人以上が死亡し、170人以上が重傷を負い、無数の軽傷者を出した。これは沙基大虐殺と呼ばれ、中国から世界に衝撃を与えた。広州と香港の人々の反帝国主義感情はさらに激しさを増した。香港のスト参加者はすぐに25万人を超え、13万人が長期闘争の準備のために広州に戻った。



Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Ernie Pyle, a U.S. Army service reporter and winner of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, was killed in action on April 18, 1945, when he was shot by Japanese soldiers on Ie Island during the Battle of Okinawa.

  Ernie Pyle, a U.S. Army service reporter, was killed in action on Iejima Island, Okinawa, Japan, on April 18, 1945, after being shot by Japanese soldiers. Ernie Pyle was buried helmeted among other war dead on Iejima Island, among U.S. Army infantry privates and combat engineers.

  Ernie Pyle of the U.S. Army landed on Ie Island, Okinawa, with the U.S. Army 305th Infantry on April 17, 1945. Pyle, along with the 305th Infantry Regiment of the 77th Infantry Division, landed on Ie Island, a small island northwest of the main island of Okinawa. The Allied forces had captured Ie Island but had not yet completely eliminated the Japanese soldiers; by April 18, they had neutralized the local hostile Japanese forces. Pyle was traveling around Ie Island in a jeep with Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Coolidge. Pyle, along with Lt. Col. Coolidge, commander of the 305th, and three other officers, were traveling in a jeep toward Coolidge's new headquarters.

 As the jeep slowed to avoid traffic ahead near the village of Ie, a Japanese soldier hiding on a coral ridge about a third of a mile away opened fire with a Southern machine gun. A burst of shells hit the road overhead, and they quickly took cover in a nearby ditch. A short time later, Pyle and Coolidge got up to look around. The Japanese soldiers fired again, and Coolidge, dodging a bullet, turned to see Pyle lying on the ground. A bullet struck Pyle in the left temple. Coolidge looked at Ernie Pyle, a retired military reporter, who had been shot and killed.

 June 6, 1944 was D-Day (the day the attack began), when the Allied landings in Normandy, France, in the “greatest operation ever undertaken” by the Allied forces, began. On the first day of the landings, only a small area was occupied, and it took 20 days to overrun the entire area. Although the Normandy landings were largely accomplished, many soldiers lost their lives. Army reporter Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) was aboard the D-Day fleet and landed shortly after his unit. He was wounded in a bombing run and narrowly escaped death. For his article on this occasion, Annie Pyle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1944.



On May 4, 1945, a Japanese suicide plane, despite being hit by bullets, came within striking distance of the U.S. aircraft carrier Sangamon. The suicide plane, aiming at the escort carrier, Sangamon, was hit by a bullet just before entering the ship, narrowly missing the port side and falling into the sea

  On May 4, 1945, a Japanese suicide plane, despite being hit by bullets, came within striking distance of the U.S. aircraft carrier Sangamon. Aiming at the escort carrier, the Sangamon, the suicide plane was hit by a bullet just before entering the ship, narrowly missing the port side and falling into the sea. During the Battle of Okinawa, approximately 3,000 Japanese Kamikaze pilots were killed in the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide planes did not end until August 16, the day after the unconditional surrender of the Japanese forces.

  At 18:30 on May 4, 1945, the Sangamon departed from the Kerama Islands, 24 km west of the main island of Okinawa. Japanese suicide planes, only 47 km offshore. American fighters intercepted and shot down nine Japanese suicide planes; one passed over and began circling to the port side of the Sangamon at about 17:00 on May 4. The escort carrier, the Sangamon, turned sharply to the left to avoid the suicide plane. It then began to open fire on the ship. The Japanese suicide plane crashed into the water about 7.6 meters from the starboard beam.

  The second other Japanese suicide plane, a Toryu, followed the first, and at 19:25 another suicide plane broke through the interceptor screen. It fled into the clouds to avoid American anti-aircraft fire. It then emerged from the clouds and headed toward Sangamon while increasing its speed. 19:33, the Kamikaze suicide plane dropped its bombs and crashed in the center of the flight deck. The bomb and part of the fuselage penetrated the deck and exploded at the bottom.

The Sangamon redirected the flames and smoke and allowed the fire to spread. by 20:15, with steering control, the ship was under control with the crew being returned to fight more fires. Water pressure was low as fire extinguisher pipes and risers ruptured. Carbon dioxide bottles were deployed. The port call was made and all fires were under control by 22:30. Communications with other units were restored, and at 23:20, Sangamon returned to the Kerama Islands for temporary repairs with the loss of 11 American dead, 25 missing, and 21 seriously injured.

Kamikaze Suicide Bomber(1945) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM2esx5Ov5g 

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

During the first Chechen conflict, which broke out on December 11, 1994, Russian Federation soldiers carried the bodies of their slain comrades.

  Russian Federation soldiers carry the bodies of their slain comrades in the first Chechen conflict, which broke out on December 11, 1994. Initially, President Yeltsin thought he could overrun Chechnya in a short time. The Russian Federation Army showed surprising fragility and struggled, with a large number of Russian Federation soldiers becoming prisoners of the Chechen armed forces.

 The Chechen conflict also saw a series of hostage incidents: in June 1996, militants occupied a hospital in the Russian region of Stavropol, adjacent to Chechnya, demanding that Russian troops cease military operations.They took 200 patients and civilians hostage and holed up. The Yeltsin regime forced security forces to raid the hospital, but failed to gain control of the situation. Tragically, 121 civilians died as collateral damage in the firefight. In January 1996, another 500 militants occupied a hospital in Kizlyar in the Republic of Dagestan, which is adjacent to Chechnya. They took 2,000 civilians hostage. Again, Russian forces launched an all-out assault, killing 83 civilians and soldiers. Chechen armed forces, which are inferior to Russian Federation forces in terms of military strength, have often conducted hostage operations.

 In the second Chechen conflict, which began on August 26, 1999, Chechen armed forces invaded the neighboring Republic of Dagestan. The goal was to establish an “Islamic state” combining Dagestan and Chechnya. Russian federal troops attacked them. Then, in September, Chechen militants caused a series of five bombings in Moscow and other parts of Russia. The bombs were powerful enough to collapse concrete apartment buildings. In total, more than 300 people were killed in the attacks. At this time, the prime minister of the Russian Federation was Vladimir Putin, who had been appointed to the post by President Yeltsin. Putin immediately launched a Chechen mop-up operation, identifying the serial bombings as the work of the Chechens.

 The Russian public, angered by the mass casualties of innocent civilians, supported the Chechen cleanup operation. This time, the Russian federal army did not behave as poorly as in the first Chechen conflict and initially made good progress, which increased Russian public support for Putin In February 2000, the Russian federal army declared control of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The armed forces fled to the mountainous regions of the south. The Russian people welcomed Putin's decisive policy. Yeltsin's retirement brought Putin an overwhelming victory in the Russian presidential elections of March 2000.



Monday, September 16, 2024

On the Eastern Front of World War II, Russian children faced starvation and starvation. Nazi German troops confiscated food and were forbidden to feed Russian civilians.

  On the Eastern Front of World War II, Russian children faced starvation and starvation. Nazi German troops confiscated food and were forbidden to feed Russian civilians as “incomprehensible humanity. Nazi Germany adopted a plan on April 29, 1941 to starve the Soviet people by stealing Soviet land and food and providing a complete food supply exclusively for German troops.

  During World War II, it was primarily the Soviet Union that suffered from massive starvation and starvation deaths. Approximately 20 to 25 million Russian citizens died of starvation and starvation-related diseases. In Britain, an effective rationing system ensured “fair” food rationing throughout the war. In Germany, the famine conditions of 1918-1919 were not replicated. Japan faced semi-starvation at the end of the war. In Europe, famine mortality was low, except in Greece and the Soviet Union. In the Orient, in Bengal, Henan, and Java, 3-5% of the population died. During World War II, famine-related deaths equaled or exceeded military losses. During World War II, food rationing reflected the definition of “need.” Military personnel and those engaged in hard labor were given extra calories, while women and children were given miniscule, fewer calories.

  During World War II, only the Soviet Union suffered from mass starvation and starvation deaths. Many people died of starvation and starvation in the occupied Soviet Union. The Nazi Germans did not realize their starvation plan to expel 30 million people from grain-surplus areas in early 1941 to starve them out. The invasion of the Soviet Union in the weeks of June 1941 resulted in the deaths of approximately 4 million people due to the brutal requisitioning of Nazi German forces in the occupied territories. About 7 million Soviet citizens died of starvation and famine in the occupied territories. Ukraine and Belarus suffered, especially Ukraine, which lost more than 3 million people, or nearly 8% of its total population, to famine and starvation. At least one million people also died in the Soviet city of Leningrad, which was blockaded by Nazi German troops.



Sunday, September 15, 2024

In the Russo-Ukrainian War, on October 3, 2022, the bodies of their comrades were found in the town of Liman, Ukraine, which had been recaptured from the Russian army just prior to the war. After identifying the body, Ukrainian soldiers smoked cigarettes in the area.

   In the Russo-Ukrainian War, on October 3, 2022, the bodies of their comrades were found in the town of Liman, Ukraine, which had been recaptured from the Russian army just prior to the war. After identifying the body, Ukrainian soldiers smoked cigarettes in the area. Ukrainian troops recovered the corpses of their comrades on October 3, two days after Russian troops retreated after heavy fighting over the control of Liman. Numerous bodies were still on the ground, and the bodies of Russian soldiers were not immediately removed.

   The Second Battle of Liman broke out on September 3-October 1, 2022, and on October 1, 2022, the Russians withdrew from Liman, a strategic city in the eastern Donetsk Oblast that had served as an important logistical and transportation hub for Russian forces to avoid being surrounded by Ukrainian troops. The liberation of this city gave Ukraine an important base from which to launch an offensive deep into Russian-controlled territory.

   Citizens fight for their land, for their children, and for a better life for their people, but the cost is very high, Ukrainian soldiers said. Liman residents came out of their basements, where they had been hiding during the battle for control of the city, to build bonfires and cook. The city of Liman has had no water, electricity, or gas since May 2022 Residential buildings were burned.

   After recapturing Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian forces pushed further east, advancing toward Kreminna and invading as far as the border of neighboring Luhansk Oblast, the Institute of War Studies analyzed.On October 3, Ukrainian forces were also in the south, Arkhanhelske, Milorubivka, Freshenivka, Mikhalyivka, and Novovorontsovka villages.

   On October 4, the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, voted to ratify a treaty annexing four regions to become part of Russia: Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south.The lower house immediately rubber-stamped the accession agreement. Ukraine and its Western allies rejected the referendum as illegal and fraudulent.











Warning: Ukrainian servicemen smoke cigarettes after they find and identify a dead body of a comrade in the recently recaptured town of Lyman, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Japanese soldiers and civilians flocked to the train in September 1945 to take advantage of free transportation from Hiroshima to their hometowns after the end of World War II.

      非公開の日本原爆被爆者の写真

ーアメリカ軍原爆調査団

アメリカ国立公文書館 2024年2月22日

(The National Archives College Park, Maryland) 

SC-473761





















TR -15653

473761 Sept.1945

SUBJECT:

CAPTION:

DISCHARGED JAPANESE SOLDIERS CROWD TRAINS AS THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FREE TRANSPORTATION TO THEIR HOMES AFTER END OF WORLD WAR II IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

LOCATION:

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER:

MILLER, WAYNE, LI. 

TAKEN BY UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR 15653

CLASSIFICATION:RELEASED


TR -15653

473761 1945年9月

件名

CAPTION:

第二次世界大戦終結後、広島で故郷への無料輸送を利用するため、列車に群がる除隊した日本兵たち。

場所:広島、日本

PHOTOGRAPHER:

ミラー、ウェイン、LI. 

TAKEN BY UNIT

ローカルナンバー:TR 15653

分類:リリース  

Friday, September 13, 2024

In May 1980, a Korean woman hugged and grieved over a coffin at the morgue of a relative who was killed in the Gwangju Uprising. On the right side of the coffin was written “Unknown.

  In May 1980, a Korean woman hugged and grieved over a coffin at the morgue of a relative who was killed in the Gwangju Uprising. The coffin on its right side was marked “Unknown.

 The Gwangju Uprising in southwestern South Korea broke out on May 18, 1980, in response to the imposition of martial law by Jeon Doo-hwan in a military coup on May 17, 1980. Martial Law No. 10 closed universities, banned political activities, and restricted the press. The uprising broke out when students at Chonnam National University who demonstrated against martial law were fired upon, killed, raped, beaten, and tortured by the Korean military.Some Gwangju citizens took up arms and formed militias. Some Gwangju citizens armed themselves and formed militias to storm local police stations and armories. They overran most of Gwangju before Korean soldiers re-entered the city and put down the uprising. Students and all other leaders of the pro-democracy movement were suspected of being traitors and anti-government criminals, and the charges against those treated as prisoners were brutal.

  On May 21, around 1:00 p.m., Korean troops opened fire on the crowd assembled in front of the Jeollanam-do provincial government building, resulting in numerous casualties. Some demonstrators attacked a reserve army armory and a nearby police station, armed with M1 rifles and M1/M2 carbines. By then, up to 200,000 people were fighting against 100,000 troops. The South Korean government has announced that 165 people were killed in this massacre of the Gwangju Uprising. In recent years, scholars have estimated between 600 and 2,300 casualties in relation to this massacre count. Only a handful of foreign correspondents were able to report on the Gwangju Uprising, and on May 27, the Martial Law Command suppressed the protests.




 

Thursday, September 12, 2024

German soldiers hid in the trenches where the dead bodies of the dead and wounded were strewn about as the Germans fought in the capital, Warsaw. The capital Warsaw fell on September 27, 1939. The Germans lost 8,082 dead and were defeated in about four weeks.

   World War II broke out with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939; by September 19, the Polish army was surrounded by German troops and some 20,000 Polish soldiers were killed in action. The Germans fought in the capital city of Warsaw during the invasion, where German soldiers hid themselves in trenches littered with the corpses of the dead and wounded. The capital Warsaw fell on September 27, 1939, and the last traces of resistance were gone by October 5, 1939. The Germans lost 8,082 dead in the campaign, and the invading Germans defeated the Polish army in about four weeks.

  The final collapse of Poland was accelerated by the Soviet Red Army's invasion and occupation of its eastern territories on September 17. The German-Soviet Pact divided Poland in two with the Soviet Union, giving the Soviets free rein in the Baltic Sea. German casualties in the invasion of Poland were 27,278 killed and 5029 missing, while Polish casualties were 70,000 killed and 130,000 wounded. The swiftness of the operation and the low German casualties were also the result of the Soviet Red Army's invasion of eastern Poland.

  On September 3, 1939, both Great Britain and France, which had signed mutual defense treaties with Poland, declared war on Germany after Germany did not respond to an ultimatum demanding immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Polish territory. World War II became an unequal battle from the outset. The Germans organized an army of about 1.5 million men for the invasion and attack on Poland, with 2,750 tanks, 2,315 fighter planes, and 9,000 artillery guns. The Polish army had 1 million troops, but could not mobilize many of them. Even those that could be mobilized were equipped with outdated equipment, with only 4,300 guns, 210 tanks, 670 tankettes, and 800 fighter planes. Poland was planned to attack Germany from the west by France and Great Britain, who had signed a military alliance on March 31. The Polish army was mistakenly overrun by the Germans without the Allied forces coming to Poland's aid.



Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Japanese fighters bombed the USS Sangamon (CVE-26) escort carrier. The Japanese suicide pilots who hit the Sangamon were not killed instantly, but were rescued by American soldiers with battle wounds.

     In the Pacific theater of World War II, Japanese fighter planes bombed the USS Sangamon (CVE-26) escort carrier of the United States Army. Suicide attackers who hit the Sangamon were not killed instantly, but were rescued by American soldiers with battle wounds. During the bombing, a Japanese “Zeke” fighter was shot down.The pilot of the Japanese fighter that fell in the Pacific was rescued by USS Thrasen (DD-530) off Leyte on October 20, 1944, and later transferred to the sick bay of the San Mogan aircraft carrier.

      Prior to the U.S. landing on Leyte on October 20, the Sangamon escort carrier began regular fighter arrivals and departures in support of the advance troops of the U.S. invasion force. Sangamon conducted attacks against airfields in Leyte and the Visayas; on October 20, fighters launched from Sangamon provided cover for landing parties and ships in the transport area; on October 20, Sangamon was hit on the main deck level, the top hidden deck, by another Japanese air assault. A bomb was dropped by a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero fighter. The bomb tore through a 0.61m X 1.83m section of plating and subsequently fell into the sea off Leyte. It exploded about 270 meters away from the “Jeep” carrier.

     During the invasion of Leyte, suicide attacks by Japanese bomber crews of units other than the Special Strike Group were dubbed as the first kamikaze attacks. The Battle of Leyte, which broke out between October 23 and October 25, 1944, was the first battle in which Japanese fighters conducted organized kamikaze special attacks. It was the largest naval battle ever fought between Japanese and American battleships. The Japanese suffered approximately 12,000 casualties. The American forces suffered approximately 3,000 casualties.



Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Victims of an attempted military coup lie in a morgue in Lome, Togo's capital, on December 5, 1991; on December 3, Togo's military stormed the official residence and detained the prime minister.

  Victims of an attempted military coup lie in a morgue in Lome, the capital of Togo, on December 5, 1991, after the Supreme Council of the Republic of Togo (HCR) voted to dissolve President Eyamade's political party (RPT) in November 1991, and on December 3 the Togo army stormed the official residence and detained the prime minister.Eyamade became the longest-serving president in African history from 1967 until his death in 2005.

 Loyal to Eyadema, Togo's military took over Lome's state broadcaster on October 1 after the government failed to pay salaries. The Togo army demanded HCR's resignation, but he was ordered back to the barracks by Eyadema.About five people were killed in this mayhem. A week later, the presidential guard, this time under the command of Eyadema's half-brother, attempted to arrest the prime minister and HCR representative, Joseph Kokoo Kofigor.The arrest resulted in further deaths and the arrest of Eyadema's half-brother and several other officers.

  The commission drafted a new constitution, and the struggle between Eyadema and Kofigo's supporters continued until the fall of 1991, when the Togolese army was mobilized in November 1991 to quell the protests. A curfew was imposed in the capital city of Lome. Outbreaks of violence continued until the beginning of 1992, when in early May 1992, an assassination attempt on Olympio, blamed on Togo's military, sparked a two-day general strike in the capital Lome. Due to continued disturbances, no elections were held in 1992-1993; in March 1992, a military camp in Lome, where Eyadema resided, was attacked and blamed on Olympio supporters; in April 1992, presidential elections were announced for June; in May 1992, targets on both the government and opposition sides were attacked; and in May 1992, a series of bombings targeting the government and opposition sides were carried out. The elections were postponed due to a series of bombings targeting both government and opposition targets in May 1992. New elections were scheduled for January 1994, but another armed attack on a military base in Eyadema was blamed on Olympio and the Ghanaian government, and the elections were postponed until January.

  The elections resulted in a victory for the opposition coalition. The political violence plaguing the country was not resolved: in October, Togo's phosphate bureau, the government agency that controls the country's main industry, was attacked. The unrest continued after the opposition coalition collapsed due to defections to Eyadema's party, hindering Togo's transition to democracy; a rally of about 100,000 opposition supporters was held in the capital in May 1997, where Eyadema was accused of manipulating the political system. The peaceful nature of the protests and the fact that the Togo military allowed them to take place left many political and ethnic issues unresolved, although Togo is maturing as a viable democracy.



 

Monday, September 9, 2024

It was the early 20th century and these were the heads of two prisoners guillotined in France. The brutality and the victims were reduced to mere livestock.

  It was the early 20th century and these were the heads of two prisoners guillotined in France. The brutality of the guillotine reduced the victims to mere livestock. Capital punishment is an atrocity that cannot always be concealed, no matter what the state regime or method of execution. In France, candidates for execution are tormented every night as they go to bed for the last night of their lives, and sleep in peace only on Saturday evenings and before national holidays.

 The executioner, who holds the official title, sets up the guillotine in a corner of the prison yard on the eve of the execution scheduled for early morning. The death penalty apparatus is the article of the executioner, not the state.Both the executioners and judicial officials avoided the name guillotine, referring to it by its official name, the “tree of justice,” or la machine for short. Each part of the guillotine was covered with rubber and quietly assembled during the night.

 At dawn, around 4:30 a.m., several men crept in their socks in front of the still-sleeping cells of the condemned prisoners. They quickly woke the terrified condemned prisoners, took off their shoes, and put them back on in front of their cells. The group included the warden, two judges, the condemned man's lawyer, a clergyman, a doctor, and two guards. The cell door was breached and the guards rushed toward the prisoners. They rushed toward the disoriented condemned prisoner, pulled him up, and tied his hands behind his back. The warden told the condemned prisoner, “Your plea for mercy has been denied. Take courage. You are about to be executed."

 The condemned man was dragged into the yard and pushed into a bascule (swing). The lunette, the neck plate, closes and the axe falls. Decapitation by guillotine was conceived by Dr. Guillotin. In beheading by sword, the face of the decapitated head moved for a while; in the 19th century, French doctors experimented on heads, and in 1879 a female murderer was guillotined and two doctors examined her head.



In the attack on the Kursk region by the Ukrainian army, the North Korean army suffered heavy losses from December 14 to December 15, 2024, with around 30 soldiers killed or injured, and the bodies of North Korean soldiers lying on the snowy plain.

ウクライナ軍のクルスク地方の攻撃で、北朝鮮軍は大損害を伴って、補充が必要となった。ウクライナ情報筋によると、北朝鮮軍の部隊は2024年12月14日から12月15日にかけて大きな損害を被り、少なくとも30人の兵士が死傷した。北朝鮮軍兵士は複数の部隊のFPVドローンの連携攻撃によって...