Members of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission listen to Col. John R. Hall describe effects atomic bomb had on Hiroshima. He is a surgeon of 10th Corps and had with him chosen victims of the atomic bomb to show the Commission. Japan. 1/26/1946

                  　　　　Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

February 23, 2024  

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At extreme left Haj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy and Maj. Gen. P.N. Clarkson, CG, 10th Corps, and members of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission listen to Col. John R. Hall describe effects atomic bomb had on Hiroshima. He is a surgeon of 10th Corps and had with him chosen victims of the atomic bomb to show the Commission. Japan. 1/26/1946

Signal Corps Photo #WPA-46-64689 (Direda), released by BPR 4/1/1946.

orig. neg. Lot 13534  Pg

On April 3, 2025, Palestinians were overcome with grief as they stood in front of the bodies of their relatives who had been killed in an Israeli air strike and brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. At least 100 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip.

      On April 3rd 2025, Palestinians were overcome with grief as they stood in front of the bodies of their relatives who had been killed in an Israeli air strike and brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. At least 100 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip in Israeli air strikes, Palestinian health officials said, with at least 27 killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza. The school in the Tuffah area of Gaza City contained the bodies of 14 children and five women, and among the 70 injured there were also some seriously injured. According to records from the Al-Afri Hospital, more than 30 Gaza residents were also killed in the nearby Shijaiya area.

    The Israeli military said it had attacked a “Hamas command and control center” in the Gaza City area in an effort to reduce civilian casualties. It said it had also attacked Hamas militants at the command and control center when it attacked a United Nations building used as a shelter on April 2, killing at least 17 people.

    Israel issued a general evacuation order to the Palestinians from parts of northern Gaza prior to the ground operation. On January 19, 2025, Israel and Hamas began a ceasefire. Hamas handed over three hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army transferred the hostages to a medical facility and withdrew from the northern and southern Gaza Strip, releasing 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire and hostage agreement on January 19.

     On March 18, 2025, Prime Minister Netanyahu unilaterally withdrew from the ceasefire in Tel Aviv, Israel. The UN humanitarian office said that around 280,000 Palestinians had been displaced since Israel ended its truce with Hamas last month. Israel said on April 2, the day before, that it would establish a new security corridor across the Palestinian territory, occupying large parts of Gaza.

Warning: Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives , who were killed in an Israel airstrike, as they brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, on Thursday, April 3,2025. (Jehad Alshrafi-AP)

At the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, the US Marine Corps killed the remaining Japanese soldiers by sweeping them up on March 16, 1945. They looked down on the scattered bodies of the dead Japanese soldiers with caution.

     At the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, the US Marine Corps killed the remaining Japanese soldiers by sweeping them up on March 16th, 1945. They looked down on the scattered bodies of the Japanese soldiers, keeping a watchful eye on the area. The US Marines continued to sweep the rough terrain in the northwestern part of Iwo Jima throughout the day, sealing off many caves in the battle zone and suffering only a few injuries. After patrolling the battle area and ensuring that there were no encounters with the Japanese army, they secured the operational area and began preparing for nighttime positions.

    When the Japanese army decided to make their final suicide attack, they came out onto the ground shouting “Banzai!” and brandishing their weapons. As the end of the battle drew near, the Japanese soldiers were determined to kill American soldiers until they themselves died. No Japanese soldier wanted to die, even as the battle drew to a close, and like gladiators, they were fated to fight to the death, whether they liked it or not. To survive the final predicament of the Battle of Iwo Jima, all Japanese soldiers, without exception, fell to their deaths in a fierce show of loyalty to the Emperor.

     American soldiers found themselves in the inhospitable terrain of Iwo Jima. Japanese soldiers were hiding in the many mouths of rocks and caves. The time-consuming and frightening process of clearing open caves, crevices and suspicious holes soon led to deadly combat. The sound of Japanese rifle fire suddenly rang out, and the explosions of grenades echoed off the rocks. Once they found the cave entrance, they quickly arranged for covering fire and continued their fierce and desperate assault under the pain of their wounds and the explosions of grenades. The intensity of the American attack easily killed the surviving Japanese soldiers.

On the Eastern Front during World War II, Soviet Jews were murdered by the mobile killing units of the SS that accompanied the German army. Vinnytsia was occupied by the German army on July 19, 1941, and the Jews dug their own graves with their bare hands.

 　On the Eastern Front of World War II, Soviet Jews were killed by the mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) of the SS that accompanied the German army front. They were usually massacred by a group shooting on the spot. In Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, which was occupied by the German army on July 19, 1941, Jewish victims dug their own graves with their bare hands.

　Vinnytsia was occupied by the Germans. There were more than 34,000 Jews in Vinnytsia. Only 17,000 of them survived, the rest having evacuated to the interior of the Soviet Union before the German occupation. Virtually all of the Jews who remained in Vinnytsia under Nazi Germany were killed in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany's atrocities were carried out in Vinnytsia and the surrounding area by Einsatzgruppen.

　On June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began, and under the pretext of war, Germany shifted from the forced migration and imprisonment of Jews to genocide. The Einsatzgruppen, which were made up of Nazi SS troops and police, quickly accompanied the invading German army. Their mission was to kill the Jews they found in the occupied Soviet territories. Some of the inhabitants of the occupied territories, mainly Ukrainians, Latvians and Lithuanians, assisted the German mobile killing units as auxiliary police.

　The mobile killing units acted quickly, entering towns and cities and rounding up all the Jewish men, women and children. They also took away many Communist Party leaders and Roma (gypsies). The victims were forced to give up all their valuables, and their clothes were taken away. The clothes were later sent to Germany and distributed to local collaborators. The members of the murder squads then forced the victims to go to a square, forest or ravine on the outskirts of the town or city where they had been conquered. There they shot the victims or gassed them to death in a gas van, and dumped the bodies in mass graves.

In the early morning of February 13th 1991, a precision-guided bomb from the Allied forces hit a bunker in Amiriya, Baghdad. The graphic images of charred bodies being carried out of the building were broadcast, and Iraq reported that over 300 people, mainly women and children, had died.

 　　On February 13th 1991, the thick concrete roof of an air-raid shelter in the Amiriya district was blown off like butter. The American government claimed that it was being used as a military command post, while the Iraqis denied this, saying that it was for civilian use only. This bombing, which killed over 300 people, caused widespread shock. Reporters were taken to a hospital in Baghdad, where they took photographs of the many bodies that had been brought there. No evidence was found that there were any soldiers in the bunker, but the clothing of the dead had been burnt away, so it was impossible to confirm this.

　　In the early hours of February 13th 1991, a precision-guided bomb from the coalition forces hit the Amiriya bunker in Baghdad. Television stations broadcast graphic images of charred bodies being carried out of the building. Iraq reported that over 300 people, mainly women and children, had been killed. The bunker was originally built as an air raid shelter during the Iran-Iraq War and later converted into a military command and control center. In 1991, it was used as a military communications center complete with barbed wire, camouflage and armed guards. Selected civilians entered the top floor at night, while the Iraqi military continued to use the lower floors as a command and control center. All Iraqi military bunkers were also designated to house civilians.

　　After the attack, the US defended the targeting of the Amiriya bunker, claiming it was a military command center. The US military found it difficult to distinguish between people in military uniforms and civilians using intelligence-gathering satellites alone. In a report several months after the attack, Human Rights Watch concluded that the coalition forces had failed in their duty to use means and methods of attack that minimized the possibility of civilian casualties. After the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the coalition forces closed off the bomb site and the photos of the victims in the underground bunker were not made public.

During the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II, a German 88mm artillery shell hit a Russian supply vehicle, killing the Russian soldiers who were carrying bread and other supplies.

     During the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II, a German 88mm artillery shell hit a Russian supply vehicle, killing the Russian soldier inside. Walter Huckle titled his snapshot “Dead and Bread Loaded”.

    In August 1942, the soldiers of the 62nd Army of the Soviet Red Army, who had retreated to Stalingrad, placed skeletons on the road to greet the German soldiers. They collected the skeletons, who were saluting from the Kerson school, by the roadside. The German Wehrmacht soldiers, who had marched into Stalingrad, thought this was a joke and enjoyed it. However, in the end, the skeletons were not a joke at all, and the Battle of Stalingrad had begun.

    The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from July 17th 1942 to February 2nd 1943, was one of the most decisive battles of the Eastern Front in World War II. The Soviet army inflicted a devastating defeat on the German army in the strategic city and surrounding area along the Volga River named after the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the summer of 1942, Hitler launched a major offensive into southern Russia. He intended to destroy the remnants of the Soviet army and ultimately occupy the oil fields of the Caucasus. The initial advance went well, and the German 6th Army was ordered to capture the city. Stalin demanded that it be defended at all costs, and every soldier and civilian was mobilized.

     Stalingrad was bombed heavily by the German air force, and the ruins became the stage for fierce urban warfare that lasted for months. By October 1942, most of the city had fallen into German hands, but the Russian army was holding on to the banks of the Volga River, where they had transported important stockpiles. Meanwhile, the Soviet army reinforced its forces on both sides of Stalingrad and, in November 1942, launched a large-scale attack to surround and trap the German army. The 6th Army, which had been forbidden by Hitler to retreat, held out until the exhausted remnants surrendered on February 2, 1943. The German army lost a total of 500,000 soldiers, including 91,000 prisoners of war, in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Soviet army lost 674,990 soldiers killed in action and 672,224 wounded in action, bringing the total number of dead to around 500,000.