2/28/2021

After a girl was suffered from Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Keloids were formed on burned her skin.

 A girl (T.Kuwabara, Denmacho) exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, developed keloids on both upper limbs, back and neck. About two years later, on July 7, 1947, she was photographed in the back with a sign listing her. The poor living conditions during and after the war also contributed to the prolonged healing of atomic bomb survivors, leading to suppuration of burns, delayed wound repair, and the formation of thick subcutaneous scars. Subsequent contraction of the scar tissue also caused deformity or dysfunction. The sequelae of keloids were most pronounced on the face, neck, and fingers.

 Hibakusha who suffered significant primary burns or flash burns near the hypocenter, the center where the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs exploded, were also exposed to tremendous blast and radiation. On the day of the explosion, most of the survivors died instantly or from at least Stage I burns. Hibakusha who suffered burns in the area of about 1,000 to 2,000 meters from the hypocenter were accompanied by secondary burns of varying degrees, heating or scorching their clothes. In addition to moderate flash burns, contact burns and flame burns were also associated with burns. These secondary injuries were similar in nature to those observed in the case of flame burns. They resembled grade 3 or grade 4 burns in which significant damage occurred in the deep dermis and subcutaneous tissue. These lesions were often complicated by flash burns, which took a long time to heal.

 Most of the frequent flash burns (primary burns) that occurred in areas within about 2,000 to 3,000 meters from the hypocenter initially healed in a relatively short period of time, forming simple, thin scars. However, the scars caused by the flash burns resulted in significant keloid formation after about 3 to 4 months. 

 The incidence of scarring and keloids was found to be high among students from elementary to junior high school in a study of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in December 1946. Of the surviving atomic bomb survivors, a total of 426 cases were actually examined, including 388 cases of burns, 63 cases of radiation sickness, 39 cases of trauma, 5 cases of no trauma, and 247 cases of keloids arising from the surface of burns. The incidence of keloids in students exposed outdoors at a distance of about 1.6 km was about 89.1% (41 of 46 burns). At a distance of about 2.1 km, the rates were about 94.5 percent (52 of 55) and 87.1 percent (95 of 109). And at a distance of about 2.3 km, about 32.6 percent (51 of 156). One person who was burned indoors at about 1.2 km had keloids. Of the 19 people who were burned outdoors in the shade at about 1.3 km, seven had keloids (36.8%). And of the two in the shade of about 2.1 km, no cases formed keloids. The total number of keloids and burns in the 239 cases who developed these conditions after receiving outdoor burns was 697 outdoors and 2,128 indoors, respectively.

 In August 1946, the Nagasaki atomic bomb survey found keloids in 106 of 158 (67.1%) cases with burn scars and 24 of 114 (21%) cases with traumatic scars. Keloids occurred more frequently in females than in males (74.3% in females, 62.0% in males; most commonly in males, especially in teenagers). Most of the cases were located within about 1.6 km to 2 km from the hypocenter (55.5% of males; 56.6% of females).





2/27/2021

During the Battle of Liaoyang in the Russo-Japanese War, the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in trenches were scattered by Russian attacks.

During the Battle of Liaoyang in the Russo-Japanese War, the trenches were littered with the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in the attack by the Russian army. The Japanese soldier looked into the group of bodies from the periphery of the trench. The Russians also suffered increased casualties in the trenches due to the constant attacks of the Japanese troops.

 The Battle of Liaoyang in the Russo-Japanese War broke out in the wilderness of Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, China, from August 24 to September 4, 1904. Fierce fighting took place around the hillsides of the wilderness. The Japanese and Russian armies fought for the concessions from Manchuria to the Korean Peninsula and other areas. This was the first battle in which both the Japanese and Russian armies clashed. About 125,000 Japanese soldiers and 158,000 Russians, for a total of about 28,300, attacked and defended each other. The Russian army had triple fortified Liaoyang. With the vast fortifications and artillery power of the Russian army, the Japanese forces were accompanied by heavy losses.

  The Japanese army surrounded the Russian army in Liaoyang, Manchuria, but the Japanese army suffered enormous losses, and the Russian army withdrew to Shenyang in the north on September 4 with all its forces intact. The cities of Manchuria were occupied and plundered by the Japanese, Russian and Chinese forces. In the Battle of Liaoyang, about 5,537 Japanese troops were killed and about 18,000 were wounded, while about 3,611 Russians were killed and about 14,301 wounded.

  The Russian soldiers were constantly attacked by the Japanese troops, unable to rest, threatened, hungry and thirsty, and almost demoralized from the frenzied spirit. The closer the Japanese forces got, the more devious their means of warfare became. Dynamite bombs, previously used in the White Army, were later replaced by hand grenades. In the final stages, artillery shells were released from mortars that were up to about 200 meters away. The two armies also launched mine warfare to blow up each other's soldiers. The Russian army, which was neither quantitatively disadvantaged nor superior in the Russo-Japanese war, never achieved a settlement. Even though the soldiers of both armies always met in the mountainous terrain with the greatest determination, they threw down many times, and the two armies faced each other for several hours of white-knuckle fighting, sometimes for several days, and never overwhelmed each other. The Russians defended their fortifications with outstanding energy and did not passively wait for the Japanese to attack, but always countered with new and aggressive attacks. With the fortress besieged by the Japanese, the Russian forces were put to a real test, and the Russians withdrew to the north. 

 


2/26/2021

On July 19 of 1951, the military court meeting sentenced 5 people to shooting death for the guilt of the National Defense Forces on August 12.

 The National Defense Forces Incident occurred in January 1951 during the Korean War, when officials of the National Defense Forces Command embezzled military supplies and rice supplied to the National Defense Forces. On April 30, 1951, the National Assembly passed a resolution to dissolve the National Defense Force, which was disbanded on May 12, 1951. On August 12, they were executed by firing squad in Bansan, a suburb of Daegu. On August 12, the execution was carried out by firing squad in Bansan, a suburb of Daegu. The Syngman Rhee regime framed only the parties involved as guilty and quickly purged them, closing the curtain and covering up the crime.

  The National Defense Force is a Korean military organization formed under the Act on the Establishment of the National Defense Force of December 21, 1950, by compulsory conscription of eligible members of the Second National Army who are not students and are between the ages of 14 and 40. The South Korean government conscripted about 500,000 soldiers, who were dispersed and housed in about 51 educational regiments to form the National Defense Force to reinforce the South Korean army. on January 4, 1951, the South Korean army, under the offensive of both North Korean and Chinese forces, dared to retreat from the front line, which was called the 1.4 Retreat. The approximately 500,000 or so soldiers of the National Defense Forces were forced to move en masse to the rear, to Daegu and Pusan, by order of the command, where military service was scarce. The command of the National Defense Forces was composed of cadres of the Youth League, a white terrorist organization with no military experience.

 Due to the lack of supplies such as food, camping equipment, and military uniforms for the soldiers retreating on foot in the extreme cold, about 90,000 people died of starvation and freezing, and countless others died of disease in the "death march" of the National Defense Forces. On January 30, 1951, the National Assembly estimated that the National Defense Forces numbered about 500,000, and formulated a budget of about 20.9 billion won for three months. A parliamentary investigation revealed that about 2.3 billion won had been taken from the treasury due to padding of the number of troops, and about 52,000 stones of grain had been embezzled, resulting in a difference of about 2 billion won between the amount appropriated for foodstuffs and the actual amount executed or procured. Part of the embezzled money was used as political funds and bribes for President Lee Seung-man and members of the National Assembly. Relief supplies from the United Nations were also not allocated to the National Defense Forces, as they were not a regular Korean army.

 As of December 1950, the South Korean army had lost about 45% of its troops on the Nakdong River front due to a surprise attack by North Korean forces. Furthermore, due to the abolition of conscription in March 1950, it was not possible to call up troops. On January 4, 1951, the North Korean Army and the Chinese Volunteer Army retook Seoul, and from the 1.4 retreat, the National Defense Forces went into a deadly retreat to the south.



2/25/2021

Japanese plane is shown swooping down on a U.S. warship. In the three day battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, the Japanese threw Kamikaze planes into action in a desperate effort to save their fleet.

On October 25, 1944, at the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific War, a Japanese kamikaze special attack plane swooped down to hit and blow itself up against an American warship. On October 25, after three days of fighting in the Battle of Leyte, a desperate kamikaze suicide squadron was launched to save the Japanese fleet. At first, he called the kamikaze "shinpu," which was named in agreement with "That's good, because now we have to make a kamikaze.

 Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on October 20, 1944, at Nicolls Airfield in Manila, Philippines, the 201 Naval Air Squadron Command issued an order to formally organize a physical attack force and call it the Kamikaze Special Attack Force.

1. In view of the current state of the war, a strike force of 26 surface combatants (existing force) is to be formed (13 surface combatants).

   This attack will be divided into four squadrons, and will be designed to kill (or at least disable) the target task force if it appears on the eastern surface.The results are expected before the seaborne forces enter the area.The formation will be expanded as more ship battles are acquired. This strike force will be called the Kamikaze Special Attack Force. 2.

2. The commander of the 201st Air Defense Squadron will form a special strike force with existing troops to destroy the enemy task force east of the Hijima Island by October 25, if possible.The commander should prepare in advance for the formation of a special attack force with increased forces in the future. 

3. formation

  Captain Seki, commanding. 

4.  Each unit is to be named Shikishima, Yamato, Asahi, and Yamazakura Corps.




2/24/2021

One sultry July afternoon in 1934, armed Nazis stormed the Chancellery in Vienna and shocked the world by assassinating the courageous little Engelbert Dollfuss.

Suddenly, Nazi dictatorship over other countries broke out when Austrian Nazis assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dolfos on July 25, 1934. 10 Austrian Nazis invaded the Chancellery, eliminated the unarmed guards, and assassinated Dolfos. During the occupation of the Chancellery, Dolfos was shot twice at point-blank range, the first bullet through the abdomen and into the lumbar spinal cord, and the second through the neck and throat, killing him.

 Throughout the 1930s, Nazi Germany was enthusiastic in its welcome for the Anschluss, the annexation of Germany and Austria. However, Engelbert Dollfuss, who became Chancellor of Austria on May 20, 1932, was only about 6 feet tall, but was enthusiastic about Austria's tyrannical dictatorship. On May 20, 1933, he formed Austrofascism, which organized Italian fascism in Austria against Hitler, who became chancellor on January 30, 1933. However, one sultry afternoon on July 25, 1934, armed Austro-Nazis attacked Chancellor Dollfuss in the Austrian capital, Vienna. The assassination of the brave little chancellor by Nazi Germany shocked the world. Nazi Germany failed to seize control of the Austrian government due to Italian intervention. Kurt von Schuschnick, who had put down the coup by assassination, took over the chancellorship from Dolfus.

 Eventually, Schuschnick announced the holding of a referendum on March 13, 1938 to determine the future of Austria. Hitler did not want the result of the referendum and attacked Austria soon after. on March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany crossed the Austrian border. The next day, March 13, German tanks occupied Vienna and wandered along the Ringstrasse. A new referendum was held on April 10, and Austria was officially annexed by Nazi Germany. The new government was headed by the Nazi Party member Artur Seiss-Inquart, a puppet of Nazi Germany in Austria. The Rothschild mansion became the headquarters of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. Hitler made his first armed conquests in other countries. Vienna, the glittering jewel of the Habsburg Empire, was occupied and became nothing more than a provincial town in Nazi Germany. For Austria, Nazi Germany's tyrannical dictatorship came early. 



2/23/2021

After the Ba Gia battle (Quang Nagai province): on May 29,30, and 31, 1965, the Liberation troops put out of action 4 crack battalions of the puppet troops.

The Battle of Ba Gia, the starting point for the Americanization of the Vietnam War, broke out from May 29 to May 31, 1965. The Viet Cong liberation forces collapsed the South Vietnamese government forces, resulting in many casualties. The streets of Ba Xa were littered with the corpses of South Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong soldiers.

    Viet Cong liberation forces attacked the South Vietnamese government army base at Ba Xa in Quang Ngai Province, Central Coast Region, on May 28, 1965. On the morning of May 29, South Vietnamese government troops were dispatched from Ba Tha, and the Viet Cong ambushed them, killing about 100 people. On the morning of May 29, South Vietnamese government troops were dispatched from Ba Tha, where they ambushed and killed about 100 people. The South Vietnamese government forces dispatched a battalion from Quang Ngai City, but it was split up by an ambush by the Viet Cong liberation forces. In a fierce battle that lasted about three hours, the South Vietnamese government forces suffered heavy casualties.

 In the Battle of Ba Xa, the South Vietnamese army suffered enormous losses. The Battle of Ba Raza was the starting point for the U.S. government's decision to mainstream the U.S. Army as well as the South Vietnamese Army into the Vietnam War on July 22. The U.S. military was further increased to about 125,000 troops, bringing the total number of South Vietnamese troops to about 500,000. The North Vietnamese army increased the number of troops in South Vietnam. The Battle of Ba Xa further intensified the Vietnam War. With the increase in aerial bombardment of North Vietnam, the increase in the number of American soldiers to defend the bomber bases, the military role of the United States in the Vietnam War crossed the line from advising and supporting to offensive warfare.



2/22/2021

An Australian used a gun to a Japanese spiner on the coconut tree, who lied dead beside his rifle and the tree-top.

An Austrian soldier shot a Japanese sniper who was hiding in a coconut tree in the jungle on the island of Papua New Guinea. The shot Japanese sniper fell from the high coconut tree and was killed in action. The coconut tree, sniper rifle, and water bottle were scattered beside the body of the Japanese soldier who was lying on his back. Most of the deaths of Japanese soldiers were not from direct combat, but from malnutrition and starvation due to tropical infections and starvation. Because of the tropical climatic conditions, the area is not suitable for the production of food such as field crops of grain.

 During World War II, Japanese troops invaded the village of Buna on the northern coast of the island of Papua New Guinea starting on July 21, 1942, and established a base at Buna Airfield. Australian and U.S. troops recaptured the airfield in the Battle of Buna Gona, where Japanese forces were annihilated on January 2, 1943. The island of New Guinea is the second largest, most rugged and equatorial island in the world, about twice the size of Japan. Australian troops landed in Miru Bay in mid-December 1942 to support the Americans, who invaded Buna Airfield from December 18 and occupied it on December 23.

 The Battle of Buna was an Allied attack on the Japanese coast redoubt on the north coast of Papua from November 19, 1942 to January 2, 1943. The coast barrier was constructed so that the Japanese could make a land attack on Port Moresby over the Kokoda Road. Australian counterattacks broke out within about 48 km of Port Moresby to push the Japanese back along the Kokoda.

 In July and August 1942, the Japanese landed some 11,000 battle-hardened Japanese soldiers near Buna on the north coast of New Guinea. The Japanese soldiers twisted their way through the jungle to an airfield in Port Moresby, the capital of Australia, about 160 kilometers southwest of Buna. The Australians barely beat back the Japanese, forcing the Japanese to retreat to open a gap between Buna and nearby villages. American troops landed at Port Moresby to assist the Australians in defeating the Japanese. Thereafter, American and Australian soldiers fought the Japanese for about two months with heavy fighting and heavy casualties. The Japanese soldiers did not stop resisting until they were dead, which cost the Allied forces a lot of damage. About 2,300 Allied troops were killed and about 12,000 wounded in action. For the Japanese, more than 6,000 were killed, about 1,200 were wounded, and only about 200 POWs survived.



2/21/2021

The Cheka summarily arrested and executed farmers from the peasantry, their families and sometimes entire villages.

Cheker had the Russian revolutionary government suppress and execute peasants, their families, and entire villages in order to force the release of grain from the peasants. The Chequers also targeted civilians as suspects, abusing and massacring them. His deputy, Latsis's troops shot and killed many peasants who were sympathetic to the insurgency during the nearly two-year civil war in Russia. They also purged revolts and uprisings by workers and peasants. The Chequers were called the greatest crime of persecuting not only the ideology of the state, but also the class system of the peasantry that would benefit from the revolution. He executed peasants, their families, and entire villages in order to force them to release their grain.

 On December 20, 1917, Vladimir Lenin established the Cheka (All-Russian Provisional Committee), a secret police organization directly under the Council of People's Commissars, to stabilize the Communist government of the October Revolution in Russia. It was also involved in the Red Terror, which monitored and eradicated all counterrevolutionary movements in Russia. Counterrevolutionary groups are put on revolutionary trial and eradicated. In 1918, the Judicial Committee's notice was modified so that it was not limited by its obligations to the rule of law, due process and the rights of suspects. He carried out mass arrests, incarcerations, and executions of counterrevolutionaries without a court ruling. Cheker purged counterrevolutionary elements under the direct supervision of the Communist Party.

 On April 11-12, 1918, Cheker raided about 20 houses of counterrevolutionary suspects, detaining about 520 people and killing about 20 by death penalty. Aristocrats, wealthy people, landowners, clergymen, and even Cossack soldiers were indiscriminately arrested and executed without evidence. By 1921, the Cheka had grown from about 40 people to a 200,000-strong secret police force that executed more than 12,733 people between 1918 and 1920. They were crowned with barbed wire, stabbed, crucified, hanged, stoned to death, tied to boards, forced into furnaces and boiling water, and tortured without mercy. Most of the survivors were deported to labor camps in Siberia.

 On February 8, 1922, at the end of the Russian Civil War, the Cheker was reorganized and renamed the State Political Security Service (GPU); in 1934, the Cheker became part of the National People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). It was turned into a vast punitive organization by Stalin, who conducted a major purge in the 1930s. Posthumously, it was spun off as the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB), which inherited Cheker's secret police organization and its culture of clandestine abuse and genocide.





2/20/2021

ABCC and its successor, RERF, have conducted epidemiological and genetic studies of the survivors and children of the atomic bombs.

アメリカ軍が設置した原爆傷害調査委員会(ABCC: Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission)は、被爆者の診察はするが、治療はしない。被爆者を呼び出しては、診察のみを行って、原子爆弾のデータだけを集積した。時には、被爆した女性を呼び出して、裸にまでして診察をした。出産した赤ん坊まで、ABCCまで来所させては、人体データだけを集積した。原子爆弾が人体に与えた影響を追跡調査した。

 ABCCは、沖縄の米軍基地、本土の米軍基地だけでなく、占領軍により1946年11月26日の大統領令により設置された。原子爆弾と被爆者からの批判や非難も受けても日米対等のパートナーシップと喧伝した。ABCCの本質は、アメリカ軍の加害による日本人の被害の調査が本質である。ABCCの車両がすっと玄関に着けては、看護婦が「いらっしゃいませ」と最敬礼をする。白衣に着替えさせて、血液検査、検便、レントゲン、聴診をする。被爆者の批判や避難を避けるために、精密検査の合間に弁当を出して、帰りには救急箱のおみやげまでつけた特別な接待しては、約2年に1回は診察した。ABCCで「成人健康調査」を被爆者の市民らは、ABCCをお上の"女王さま"とも呼んだ。

 太平洋アメリカ軍総司令部の軍医などの主張により、終戦直後に、アメリカ軍ははいちはやく被爆地の広島に学術調査団を送り込んだ。その調査団が継続調査の必要から、広島と長崎に研究所を設立した。その後1949年に、厚生省の国立予防研究所と協力して設置したのがABCCである。ABCCはいまも広島と長崎に2つあるが、調査研究の主体は広島で、規模の上からもABCCといえば広島が主体になっている。

  このABCCの調査は、最初のころは被爆者の心理や感情をよく考えずにトラブルを起した。しかし、だれかがやらなければならなかったことを、ABCCが終戦直後の混乱期に大規模な調査はやはりアメリカには意味があった。ABCCが終戦直後の医学の暗黒時代にも貴重な資料が保持された。しかし、その資料の一部しか日本側に渡されていない。ABCCは既に公表された統計調査資料だけを提示している。1946年10月28日に設置されたアメリカの原子力プログラムの文民統制をする原子力委員会(AEC: Atomic Energy Commission)が資金を提供していた。アメリカの原子力発電が低迷して、規制を撤廃するために原子力規制委員会(NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)に改変された。1975年11月19日にABCCも1975年4月1日に放射線影響研究所(RERF: Radiation Effects Research Foundation)に改組されて、研究資金は米国と日本によって折半されている。



2/19/2021

Japanese forces, especially infantry combat units, had been seriously depleted, and 50,000 of the Japanese troops had been killed in the Shuri fighting by the end of May, 1945.

In the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific War, by the end of May, some 50,000 Japanese troops had been killed in the Battle of Shuri alone. The Japanese troops were severely weakened as they were successively disintegrated and killed by gunfire, bombardment, and aerial bombardment, some of which were captured. The critically ill Japanese soldiers could not even commit suicide to avoid capture before they were in the hands of the American forces. In light of the number of prisoners of war, the morale of the Japanese troops was in a state of insanity, and the Japanese soldiers fought until they were killed. The dead and wounded of the Japanese army were almost all dead. Wounded Japanese soldiers either died of their wounds or were killed back at the front lines. Japanese combat troops fought without rest after being ordered to do so. Japanese soldiers stayed in the army until they were killed or seriously wounded. 

 Even at the end of May 1945, American troops had captured only 128 surviving Japanese soldiers. Even American units in the heart of the battle of Okinawa from the end of April to May 1945 had only nine surviving Japanese POWs during that period. Furthermore, most of the captured Japanese soldiers were either seriously wounded or in a state of confusion.

 Contributing to the casualties of the Battle of Okinawa was the massive amount of artillery and mortars fired by the Japanese, the most intensive bombardment of the Pacific War. American soldiers, traumatic stress disorder was a close call with fanatical Japanese soldiers with no end in sight. The Battle of Okinawa had the highest incidence of psychosis in the Pacific. Japanese artillery and mortars shattered the spirit among American soldiers. The Japanese soldiers were subjected to a very intense force of artillery, artillery fire, and bombers. However, during the heavy bombing, the Japanese temporarily hid deep underground. American troops were sniped out of shallow trenches, defensive walls, or surfaced from the slopes and peaks of attacked ridges.

 Casualties on the American side were the most significant of the Pacific War, with some 1,718 American soldiers killed, 8,852 wounded, and 101 missing in action during the month-long battle at the Shuri front in late May. In particular, during the two months of fighting on the Shuri front, the U.S. soldier casualties were about 2,871 killed, about 12,319 wounded, and about 183 missing. In total, American units lost about 26,044 killed, wounded, or missing. American losses were about one man killed for every approximately 10 Japanese troops. Non-combat casualties became very numerous, mostly cases of neuropsychiatric or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). By the end of May, U.S. military units were accompanied by approximately 6,315 to 7,762 non-combat injuries.




2/18/2021

The armored car of a military coup broke into the wall of Moscow citizens over the Soviet Capitol, and three young men participated in it and were killed.

The civilian wall defending the Capitol of the Soviet Republic was invaded by an armored vehicle of the military coup d'etat on August 19, 1991. When it suddenly braked and retreated, three Moscow youths interfered; one youth jumped onto the armored vehicle and was shot dead. Two other youths were caught in the caterpillars of the armored car and crushed to death.

 In the Soviet Union, after the collapse of Gorbachev's Perestroika revolution, a military coup was launched by communist conservatives on August 19, 1991. For almost six years after Perestroika, the citizens of the Soviet Union were in political and economic turmoil, struggling to make ends meet. It was the rallying of ordinary Soviet citizens for democracy that countered the military coup that took them back to the former Soviet Union. Temporarily, the military coup gained the upper hand in terms of armed force. It was the ordinary citizens of the Soviet Union who held back and crushed the Soviet soldiers against the military coup. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Soviet States (CIS) was reborn.

 On the morning of August 19, an emergency committee was formed, Gorbachev was dismissed, and an anti-perestroika government was suddenly established. In Moscow, Soviet armored vehicles and tanks appeared in the center of the city. Citizens against the military coup gradually gathered in front of the parliament of the Russian republic, and on the evening of August 19, Moscow citizens barricaded themselves in front of the parliament. On the evening of August 19, Moscow citizens barricaded themselves in front of the parliament, and some of the occupying Soviet tanks turned to the side of the Moscow citizens. The KGB's special forces were also deployed to oppose the military coup. Against the tanks and armored vehicles of the military coup, Moscow women also stood up and pleaded with the soldiers to understand the citizens and not to shoot them. Gradually, the soldiers of the military coup turned on the side of the citizens of Moscow. About tens of thousands of Russian citizens gathered to defend the Parliament of the Russian Republic.

 At 10:00 p.m. on August 19, an armored car of the military coup d'état went up in flames after being attacked by Molotov cocktails from the Moscow youth; at around 0:30 a.m. on August 20, about ten armored cars invaded the underpass under Kaliningrad Boulevard via the Sadovoye Ring Road. They rushed into the barricade and were unable to move. Several young men blocked the peephole of the armored car with blankets. When they tried to pry open the hatch, three young men were massacred by the soldiers of the armored car.

 On August 20, at around 4:15 a.m., despite negotiations with the army high command, the citizens of Moscow did not leave the barricades of the Capitol, and at 10:00 p.m. on August 21, they notified the military coup d'etat that they would attack in the morning. The military coup ended when the conspirators fled to Crimea at noon on August 21, and on December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically resigned on state television, and the Soviet Union no longer existed.








2/17/2021

With sunrise, if a man lay uncovered upon the ground, he was a North Vietnamese soldier, just fallen, soon to be buried by the Marines.

In the Vietnam War, the Battle of Khe Sanh broke out on January 21, 1968. Troops of the North Vietnamese People's Army (PAVN) launched a massive artillery barrage on the American garrison at Khe Sanh, about 25 kilometers south of the unarmed South Vietnamese border with Laos. For the next 77 days, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops fought the longest and most disastrous siege of the Vietnam War.

 The U.S. military command in Saigon forbade American soldiers to explore beyond the North Vietnamese perimeter net. About 6,000 U.S. soldiers were placed in a foggy, sandbag-piled dirtbag rear section, waiting with about 300 South Vietnamese riot police. In response to the relentless and intense bombardment of the North Vietnamese forces, the American and South Vietnamese forces attacked with about five times more bombardment power, threatening the North Vietnamese forces. The U.S. commander had secretly promised U.S. headquarters that he would threaten Hanoi by occupying Khe Sanh, just as he had invaded Dien Bien Phu, the Order of Caesar.

 The Khe Sanh Combat Base had a summit (861 Alpha) near the hill occupied by American troops. It had a metal-covered runway. It was part of the screening defense for the Khe Sanh area. When the fog and incoming fire were not too thick, helicopters torn apart by bullets flew back and forth between the two outposts. Suddenly the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive broke out across South Vietnam, and on February 5 the North Vietnamese forces launched a pre-dawn frontal assault against the highlands of Khe Sanh. About 42 Marines were killed or wounded as they wriggled in the trenches. About 100 or more North Vietnamese soldiers lay dead, their bodies strewn around the barbed wire and trenches. On the morning of February 8, another force around Khe Sanh was breached. Before the attack was crushed, it claimed the lives of about 21 Marines, wounded about 26 more, and left about three missing. On the same morning, the bodies of about 124 North Vietnamese soldiers were strewn about. The rest of the day was almost as brutal in its toll. On April 11, 1968, American troops defended Khe Sanh to the death, but on July 5, 1968, Khe Sanh base was destroyed and fell into evacuation.

 At sunrise, the bodies uncovered on the ground were North Vietnamese soldiers. The freshly fallen bodies were immediately buried by the American troops. If a soldier was covered with a poncho on the ground, it was the body of an American soldier who had been killed in action. They were awaiting evacuation to the rear and departure to their families. In war, there was nothing more that could be done for the dead. The battlefield was ultimately a cruel world. North Vietnamese soldiers reacted quickly as artillery shells exploded in a narrow perimeter around the North Vietnamese troops and debris rained down on them as death roamed among you once again, once more accepting the deep surprise you were spared. About 283 of the approximately 6,200 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were killed in action, and about 1,622 were wounded. The North Vietnamese army had about 3,562 killed in action and about 5,000 wounded.




2/16/2021

The Matsushima ship in the naval battle published by the Captain was banned and punished, actually seeing the war about cruel death and bleeding.

With the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese imperial government was established, and Japan moved from the feudal era to the modern era. In 1896, "The Situation on board the Matsushima during the Battle of the Yellow Sea," published by Captain Kokichi Kimura of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was banned. The authorities banned the book because of its realistic and true representation of the war during the Meiji era, including the brutal deaths and bleeding. Furthermore, even in peacetime, restrictions on speech and publication were intensified.

 In 1868, the Meiji government banned the first issue of "Shoka Shinbun Vol. 1," edited and published by Inoue Fumio. From then on, the suppression of expression became more severe. In 1903, it became compulsory to deliver books to the Ministry of Home Affairs, and prior censorship of publications became more strict, with many publications and magazines being banned. In addition, for the crime of disturbing the peace and order of the nation, the ban was extended back in time. As a matter of course, from before the Middle Ages to the Edo period, victims were often punished as criminals due to the ban on writing, even more so than in the Meiji period.

 In 1868, a proclamation of the Grand Council of State was issued, and in 1869, the Newspaper Printing Ordinance and the Publication Ordinance were issued to permit publication. In 1869, the Newspaper Printing Ordinance and the Publication Ordinance were issued. In 1875, the government issued the Newspaper Ordinance and the Slander Ordinance to suppress speech. The Constitution of the Empire of Japan was promulgated in 1889. Article 29 of the constitution states, "Within the limits of the law, there shall be freedom of speech, writing, printing, assembly, and association," and freedom was taken away by various laws. Starting with the Daibaku Incident of 1910, the government imposed a devastating crackdown on thought and speech.

 On May 29, 1910, Taikichi Miyashita and Tadao Niimura were arrested in Nagano Prefecture on suspicion of using explosives to assassinate the emperor. Immediately three days later, on June 1, Kotoku Shusui was arrested in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. This was followed by the arrest of hundreds of other ideologues and others across the country. In accordance with Article 116 of the former Penal Code of 1880 (Meiji 13), those who harmed the Emperor or the three Empresses were sentenced to death. After the Daibaku Incident, the Japanese Imperial Government established the Special High Police to clean up the area, including citizens, by secretly abusing and massacring them based on personal information.




2/15/2021

Chinese guerrilla troops invaded Changsha, Hunan Province, and sneaked into the private Chinese. They were abused and slaughtered in the indiscriminate battles of the Japanese army.

During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army's Operation Changsha (The Battle of Changsha) was conducted in and around Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. Four attacks were launched against Changsha in order to gain control of southern China. The First Operation Changsha took place from September 18 to October 6, 1941, and the Second Operation Changsha from December 24, 1941 to January 16, 1942. Chinese guerrilla troops in plain clothes invaded Changsha and blended in with civilian Chinese. Civilian Chinese in Hunan Province were abused and massacred by the Japanese forces in indiscriminate fighting. The first Changsha campaign synchronized with the combat period of World War II.

 In December 1941, with the start of the Pacific War, the Changsha Operation was launched as a diversionary tactic in mainland China to capture the Hong Kong Fortress. The Japanese troops, who had no supplies, ran out of ammunition and food and suffered many casualties. By the reckless Changsha Operation without a plan, the Japanese were intoxicated with the invincibility of the Imperial Army and underestimated the Chinese forces, which finally turned around and fell into retreat. As a result of the painful Changsha Operation, a large amount of blood of about 10,000 Japanese soldiers was spilled.

 After nearly a week of fierce fighting starting on September 17, 1941, the Japanese forces arrived on the outskirts of Changsha on September 29. By then, the Japanese forces had suffered heavy casualty losses, estimated at more than 10,000. The remaining Japanese forces, with their overextended supply lines also cut off, withdrew northward by October 6, the first disastrous defeat in a major Chinese city in the Sino-Japanese War since July 1937.

 In September 1941, more than 120,000 Japanese troops embarked on an operation to capture the Chinese city of Changsha. The first engagement took place in the mountains southeast of Yueyang, where Chinese guerrilla forces clashed with Japanese troops. The Japanese troops crossed the river from September 17 to September 19. The Japanese used poison gas to drive Chinese troops out of the area. on September 27, Japanese troops entered the North Gate of Changsha, but failed to eradicate the sabotage by plainclothes guerrilla forces. The attack on the city of Changsha began on September 28 and soon turned into a battle with brutal abuses and massacres. Chinese defense forces under Xue Yue's command pushed the Japanese back into the Yueyang area by September 30 after inflicting some 10,000 deaths on Japanese soldiers.




2/14/2021

In Normandy fields inland or crumpled under dusty bushes at the roadside, American soldiers saw many of our young dead; many German dead,

Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. In that vicinity, around August, the bodies of young German soldiers were lying in bumpy fields, under dusty bushes in inland fields and roadsides. Many of the German soldier dead also often had their complexion the gray-green of their uniforms. Many of the dead German soldiers were victims of sniper fire. The blood loss had already made the cheeks of the German soldiers thin and rusty. Always these young men had blackened tips of their yellow fingernails that gripped the earth. In most cases, despite the severe pain caused by the gunshot wounds on the bodies of the German soldiers, their faces looked very strangely peaceful after death.

 The bodies that passed by the corpses had become unknown warriors. The corpse stabbed at his heart, but he never again felt the discomfort he had the first time. It was depressing how quickly one became accustomed to death in war. It wasn't the threat of disease or aging, but the various horrors for a healthy young man. They were not fully prepared to accept death. On the battlefield, however, they were ready to accept death as the norm. Death was there like the shadow of a sundial, though death was coming suddenly, to be expected and to be acknowledged. On the battlefield, death was received as part of victory.

 In the means by which the war nullified and ignored the lives of men, it was too late to deal with. It is impossible to resuscitate and recreate an individual from someone soldier that death has fallen. It is not difficult to replenish and accept soldiers. A lone death on the side of the road, far from home, is not a matter of military government, but a mass replenishment of soldiers, a mass of human goods recreated by a large number of applicants in hopes of being drafted. His life was short and he had hardly tasted it. Now he had a hint of what life was to his face. A telegram of death, his family grieves, grief beyond redemption incubates, and the world is a poor citizen who knows no one.

 The men shrink in rigor mortis. Their uniforms hang in disarray, as if they were suddenly a size too big, too loose, too ill-fitting in style. When the bodies of the soldiers were gathered for burial and blankets covered their faces, bloody letters from home, wrinkled photographs, smoked cigarettes, chewing gum, old, half-eaten chocolates, string, jackknives, and foreign edition books were all that was left. The young soldier's possessions were more poignantly found in his pockets and in a smaller assortment. The bodies were covered with canvas that shone white in the sun, and only clenched hands and strands of hair appeared here and there. On the first day of the Normandy landings alone, the Germans lost about 4,000 to 9,000 men killed or wounded. The Allied forces suffered about 10,000 casualties, of which about 4,414 were killed in action. 




2/13/2021

Nagasaki in the Yamazato-cho, early in Septenber 1945. Two girls returning home with bags of rice ration from only a few distribution point.

Two young girls carrying bags of rationed rice were returning home in early September 1945 near Yamazato-machi, about 700 meters north of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. There were only a few distribution points, so the citizens went on an expedition for rations. With the bags of rationed food on their shoulders, the girls hurried home. The explosion of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki made life difficult, and they were plunged into misery and a life of nothingness. There was absolutely no hope for their lives. There was an unusual smell from the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and the streets were littered with Hibakusha who had died on the streets, Hibakusha who had died after sticking their heads into water tanks in search of water, Hibakusha who were bleeding from burns, and Hibakusha who were still alive in search of water. In Nagasaki City, the city was filled with the stench of strange smells and death, relatives searching for their families, survivors living naked, survivors with maggots, survivors seeking water for water, flies abnormally swarming in summer to the point of turning black, and the smell of strange smells and dead bodies.

 The atomic bomb in Nagasaki was dropped by a U.S. B-29 from an altitude of about 9,000 meters on August 9, 1945, and exploded about 500 meters above the ground at 171 Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City. In about 1/100th of a second, it released radioactivity from nuclear fission. At about 0.2, a mushroom cloud was generated from the fireball, and a huge mushroom cloud with a diameter of about 310 meters rose up. The center temperature of the fireball generated by the Nagasaki atomic bomb when it exploded was about 1,000,000 degrees Celsius, about 300,000 degrees Celsius after 1/10,000th of a second, the diameter of the fireball at this point was about 30 meters, about 1 second later it was about 3,000 degrees C, the diameter was about 400 meters, and it disappeared after about 10 seconds. The extinguished Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium-type atomic bomb, which was about twice as powerful as the Hiroshima uranium-type bomb.

 The boys and girls had difficulty studying at school and had no exercise. They had no clothes to wear, no food to eat, and everything was on ration cards. They could hardly eat white or silver rice. Of course, there were no sweets, meat, chocolate, or ice cream. It was a time of extreme poverty. The children were evacuated in groups to the countryside to live together to avoid the cost of war, such as bombing.

 The population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that time was about 350,000 and 270,000, respectively. The number of people killed by the atomic bombs was about 140,000 in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.




2/12/2021

Americans Rescuing a Dying and Surviving Baby from Nafutan Cave at the battle of Saipan.

In the Battle of Saipan, American soldiers rescue a Japanese baby from Nahuatl Cave on June 28, 1944. The U.S. troops handed the dying infant, who was pulled from under a rock, in a two-handed hug. It was the only child to survive in that cave among hundreds of corpses in a single cave. Cape Naftan is a short peninsula extending south along the east coast of Saipan. Most of the Naftan Peninsula is a cracked ridge, and at the tip of the peninsula is Cape Naftan. The highest point of Mount Naftan in southern Saipan is about 124 meters, and its north and west faces are mostly sheer cliffs. The American invasion pushed a motley crowd of civilians mixed with Japanese troops into the area. Only about 1,050 Japanese troops survived. Japanese soldiers and civilians were fired upon from the coast near the southern tip of the peninsula.

 The invasion broke out when American troops from June 15, 1944 landed on the Japanese stronghold of Saipan in the Pacific War. The brutal battle lasted only three weeks and claimed the lives of about 55,000 soldiers and civilians. About 30,000 Japanese soldiers and 30,000 civilians were fatally wounded by American artillery shells, snipers and machine guns. The Japanese soldiers were inexplicably prepared to die themselves, rather than surrender. Of the approximately 71,000 American soldiers who landed, about 3,000 were killed and about 10,000 were wounded in action. Of the approximately 30,000 Japanese troops, about 921 were captured and the rest killed. About 12,000 civilians were killed.

 The Japanese hid in ravines, caves, cliffs, hills, and other dugout defenses. In response, the Americans released jets of napalm fire from their flamethrowers. The Japanese forces used civilians as human shields, while the Americans attacked non-combatants and combatants indiscriminately. There was no longer any distinction between military and civilians; on June 21, 1944, American reconnaissance found and rescued a Japanese family hiding in a cave on Saipan. The Japanese women and children were driven to commit suicide by jumping from a Saipan promontory, and the Japanese mainland gave the highest praise to mass suicide. They jumped to their deaths from Banzai Cliff (Cape Mappi) in the northernmost part of Saipan and from Cape Naftan in the south. On July 6, in the last order of the Banzai assault, some 3,000 men, including the wounded, were annihilated; on July 9, the sweep of Saipan was complete.





2/11/2021

WW II. soviet union, Eastern front , theater of war, Battle of Stalingrad, Frozen bodies of fallen soviet and german or hungarian soldiers lying in the snow around Don River.

The troops expelled from the Eastern Front in World War II could not defend themselves or form a new front in the open, snow-covered terrain. Soon, both the German and the poorly equipped Hungarian armies collapsed and were killed or froze to death as they retreated from Stalingrad in the extreme cold. The bodies of the retreating soldiers were buried in the snow around the Don River. Long lines of retreating soldiers, frozen soldiers, barely soldiers wandered, only instinct kept their feet moving. But the soldiers had no weapons in their hands, and the strain was too much, and the minus 40 degrees Celsius paralyzed their brains and bodies.

 On January 12, 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II, the Hungarian army suffered the catastrophe of the Don River. The Hungarian army suffered tens of thousands of casualties in a few days. About 100 soldiers from Hordemezebershahrie drowned in the Don River. The Soviet troops were on the offensive from the Stalingrad offensive, and fighting broke out in the extreme cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius from the Uribi bridgehead on the Don River on January 12, 1943. The Soviets blocked supply lines, cut off relief to the Germans in the Stalingrad offensive, and acquired a network of rail lines. As the Hungarian army retreated from Stalingrad due to extreme cold, lack of equipment, and food supplies, the toll was very disastrous. The loss of life of the Hungarian army was estimated to be about 120,000 to 130,000 out of about 250,000 transported Hungarian soldiers. About 50,000 were killed in action, about 50,000 were wounded in action, and about 28,000 were taken prisoner. About 70% of the military equipment and all heavy weapons were destroyed. About 100 Hungarian soldiers fell into the Don River and drowned.

 During the Second World War, the Hungarian army explicitly entered the war against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. in the summer of 1941, Hungary declared war against the Soviet Union. Hungarian troops initially took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front to a limited extent and to a greater extent. Hungary, under pressure and demand from Nazi Germany, eventually had some 200,000 or more Hungarian troops transferred to the Eastern Front by June 1942. The Hungarian troops belonging to the German army were first transported by rail, and after walking hundreds of kilometers, they arrived at the area around the Don River. There, exhausted Hungarian soldiers were immediately sent into battle. The Hungarian soldiers were forced to defend the area around the Don River for about 200 kilometers.

 The Soviets, who had been on the offensive since the Stalingrad offensive, broke out into battle in the extreme cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius from the Uribi bridgehead on the Don River on January 12, 1943. The Soviets blocked supply lines, cut off relief to the Germans in the Stalingrad offensive, and acquired a network of rail lines. As the Hungarian army retreated from Stalingrad due to extreme cold, lack of equipment, and food supplies, the toll was very disastrous. The loss of life of the Hungarian army was estimated to be about 120,000 to 130,000 out of about 250,000 transported Hungarian soldiers. About 50,000 were killed in action, about 50,000 were wounded in action, and about 28,000 were taken prisoner. About 70% of the military equipment and all heavy weapons were destroyed. About 100 Hungarian soldiers fell into the Don River and drowned.

 One of the direct causes of the loss of the independent Hungarian state was attributed to the loss of a large part of the Hungarian army due to the catastrophe of the Don River. Most tragically, Hungary's independence was prevented militarily, economically, and strategically by both Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union - the inhumane dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. Hungary was able to regain its national sovereignty, which it lost from the Soviet Union in March 1944, in October 1989, after the Soviet dictatorship collapsed.




2/10/2021

Italian young children wore Fascist uniforms and trained in military style to form fascist ideas and attitudes from young children.

Young children in Italy wore the uniforms of the fascist party and trained in military style. From a young age, they formed the ideas and attitudes of fascism. Fascism promoted brainwashed citizens with many totalitarian ideas that demanded civic duty for the benefit of the state. Use of state intervention in education to promote the development of state warriors and future rulers.

 The fascist movement used military uniforms with the symbols of the fascist movement on them to organize. Use of historical state symbols as symbols of the fascist movement. Organize organized rallies for propaganda purposes. Fascist movements are publicly idolized in order to propagandize them as saviors. Fascist movements often adopted symbols of ancient Roman or Greek origin.

 In Italy, the 1919 Fascist movement wore black military uniforms and called them black shirts. The uniform of the fascist era permeated both the party and the army and consisted of a wooden stick and a tie, the fasces or eagle, attached to the hat or the left arm part of the uniform. The image symbolized power, law, and governance. The bundle of sticks, featuring an axe, suggested life and death. The fasces were used by Italian political organizations as a symbol of strength through unity. Italian fascism utilized black as a symbol of movement, and black was known as the Blackshirt, symbolizing death.

 Due to the symbolism of the Italian fascists, they adapted elements of their national heritage to stimulate nationalism. Other symbols used by the Italian fascists included the Aquila, the Capitolina wolf, and the SPQR motto, which relates to the cultural history of ancient Rome, which the fascists revive. The legendary wolf was considered a symbol of Rome since ancient times. In particular, it was championed by Italian fascist party leader Benito Mussolini, who donated sculptures of the legendary wolf to various parts of the world. He argued that there is a natural law for the superior people to dominate and control the inferior people. History, he argued, was merely a Darwinian struggle for power and territory among the racial masses. Mussolini's domestic goal was the eventual establishment of a totalitarian state with himself as its supreme leader. He gave top priority to the worship of the individual through the conquest of the Italian psyche through the use of propaganda.




 

2/09/2021

In the Shanghai Massacre, many Communist Party members and revolutionary workers were arrested and shot dead in various parts of Shanghai.

 In the early morning of April 27, 1927, the gangs controlling Shanghai's underworld attacked the Workers' Inspection Corps, which led to the invasion of the Baixi Army under the orders of the Kuomintang rightists, who disarmed the Workers' Inspection Corps and shot dead those who resisted. Zhou Enlai, who commanded the workers' police, escaped and fled the city. Over the next three days, Shanghai became a city of blood, as machine gun fire mercilessly swept through the city's 200,000 protesters. Many Communist Party members and revolutionary workers were arrested and shot dead in various places in Shanghai. On April 15, a similar massacre took place in Guangzhou, and from then on, white terrorists abused and massacred resisters in areas controlled by the Kuomintang forces. 

 At the Nationalist Party Congress in Hankow in March, the CPC and the leftist faction monopolized the power and abolished the commanding general system of the National Revolutionary Army. Chiang Kai-shek became a mere member of the military commission and lost his real power; on April 6, Beijing police raided the Soviet legation, and secret documents revealed the Communist Party of China from the CPC molecules and weapons tasked with the Red Revolution. In Shanghai, from May 1926, strikes broke out strangely in various factories because of the Communist Party of China; in February 1927, a general strike of about 360,000 people developed; in March 1927, a provisional government was set up by the Communist Party of China; in July 1926, the National Revolutionary Army began its northern deforestation, which reached the Yangtze River basin in November. On January 1, 1927, the Nationalist government was moved from Guangzhou to Wuhan. The Shanghai coup d'état led to a split in the Wuhan government on April 18, when the Nationalist government was moved from Wuhan to Nanjing.

 The right-wing faction of the Kuomintang (KMT) imposed martial law from the beginning of April 1927 and gradually disarmed the inspection force of artisans. Finally, on April 12, they attacked the General Engineering Council at once. Before dawn on April 12, 1927, the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army began to attack the district offices controlled by the union workers in Zhabei, Nansi, Pudong, etc. The KMT suppressed the Chinese Communists, captured dozens of cadres and massacred them by firing squad in the streets. Under an emergency decree, the KMT 26th Army was ordered to disarm the workers' militia. As a result of that order, about 300 more people were killed. Union workers organized a mass meeting to condemn the蔣介石 on April 13, and thousands of workers and students protested at the headquarters of the 26th KMT Army. The KMT soldiers opened fire, killing about 100 people and injuring many more civilians. The KMT dissolved the Provisional Government in Shanghai, the trade unions, and all other organizations under the control of the Communist Party, forcing them to swear allegiance to the KMT and reorganize their trade union links. By some estimates, some 1,000 or more communists were arrested. About 300 of them were put to death, and more than 5,000 went missing. Other estimates are that about 5,000 to 10,000 were murdered.




2/08/2021

In World War I battles, the bodies of German and French soldiers who were killed and lined up were scattered on the battlefield.

During the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in World War I, the battlefield was littered with the corpses of slain German and French soldiers who had stood shoulder to shoulder. The corpses of both soldiers appeared to be reconciled, having been killed and defeated in the battle zone.

 The Battle of Neuve Chapelle (March 10-13, 1915) was the first major engagement of British troops on the Western Front of World War I. British forces were defeated by French troops in Artois, France. British troops broke through the village of Neuve Chapelle in the Artois region of France, but were unable to capitalize on their victory. British casualties numbered about 13,000, while the Germans were accompanied by about 14,000. At the same time, French troops attacked Vimy Ridge on the Artois Plateau. The British forces attacked from the north, while the French threatened the Germans from the south. The French attack was halted when the British could not relieve the French troops. After the Germans failed to counterattack with casualties, the British forces consolidated the areas they had already occupied and halted any further attacks.

 On the front lines of the battlefields of World War I, the diverse nature and condition of soldier corpses meant that the subsequent final treatment of soldier corpses varied greatly.

 Some identifiable, soldier corpses were buried close to the front lines. In the battlefields near the rear of the front line, while holding trenches, included the bodies of soldiers killed by snipers or artillery shell explosions. Soldiers' bodies were searched from collapsed mines, trenches, trees, and dugouts. Soldiers began to withdraw, but died of their wounds while in their battalions or brigades. Soldiers were identified by comrades, privates, and officers.

 The bodies of some not easily identifiable soldiers were buried in cemeteries and burial grounds near the front lines. They were killed or died due to wounds from the attack. This includes soldiers whose bodies could not be removed because the place where they were lying was set on fire. Eventually, when the battle is over, the bodies of the soldiers are buried, if possible. This includes soldiers who marched from the front lines and were killed, and their bodies are identified by the rest of the army. Identification was censored by soldiers who did not know the deceased, through documents, tags, or other physical means.

 Some soldiers are unidentified when their bodies are completely damaged and their bodies are nonexistent or their identification papers are lost. Fragments of the soldier's body, when found, would be buried if possible. After the war, top-secret information on the battlefield reduced the total number of missing persons, but the bodies of many soldiers have yet to be found.

 Thousands of small burial grounds were created on or just behind the battlefield. The bodies of the soldiers were often damaged by artillery fire. Many of the bodies were overtaken first by the advancing enemy and later by the Allies pushing again to the east. As the ground was shelled, plots were destroyed and the location of many registered graves became unclear.




2/07/2021

Korean women weep as they identify family members killed by North Korean forces in 1953. The victims were fored into caves near Hamhung, which were sealed off so that the men would suffocate.

During the Korean War, South Korean women prayed and wailed as they identified family members killed by North Korean troops in 1953. Trapped as prisoners in a cave near Hamhung (the second largest city in North Korea), they suffocated a number of South Korean men to death. A foul smell of decomposing corpses surrounded the bodies, and family members covered their noses and mouths to watch.

 In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), citizens were subjected to very strict controls on all activities from 1948 to 1987. Information about the regime's purges, executions, and forced labor camps was closed to the rest of the country. Civilian massacres were suspected through analysis of publications and documents of defectors, escapees, agents, refugees from the Korean War, and South Korea. Some 710,000 to 3.5 million people were killed, with estimates ranging from 1.6 million. Thought control over the people of North Korea has obscured deep suspicions of a massive civilian genocide. North Korea's social polarization and humanitarian crimes such as expulsions, labor camps, and executions.

 In the very bloody Korean War, some 2.55 million people were killed in North and South Korea. The number of executions and death sentences in the labor camps, concentration camps, purges, agrarian reforms, and large-scale follow-on military operations that completely dominate North Korea is unknown. The political murder of thousands of people by the Communist Party is certain.

 Some estimates of specific massacres or killings have been made. When North Korean troops invaded South Korea during the Korean War, followed by the Communists, they systematically massacred former South Korean government officials, anti-Communists, and other citizens suspected of being hostile to the Communists. As North Korean troops withdrew from the south to the north, the killings intensified. Daejeon and Wonju are estimated to be among the deadliest. The ROK Foreign Intelligence Service has a minimal estimate of the South Koreans who were killed.

 It is difficult to determine the number of South Korean (Republic of Korea) POWs killed by North Korean forces. In all, the communists claimed to have captured 70,000 South Korean soldiers, but only about 8,000 have returned. The North Korean military has killed between about 5,000 and 12,000 South Korean POWs, and another 5,000 to 6,000 American POWs.

 North Korea has forced about 400,000 South Koreans to join the North Korean army by charging the POWs as criminals. The North Korean military ordered South Koreans to perform the most dangerous missions and combat. North Korean troops killed about 350,000 people during the Korean War, almost two and a half times more than the number of South Korean soldiers killed. About 225,000 civilian killings were executed by North Korea. Overall, the North Korean communists underestimated the killing of nearly half a million South Koreans, including North Korean civilians, during the Korean War. In reality, the death toll amounted to nearly 775,000 civilian killings.

 With the exception of the Korean War, there is little estimate of the civilian killings within North Korea. Labor camps and concentration camps were the most recent estimates of the number of prisoners in the camps. It is not known how many of the prisoners died annually. In the North Korean camps, the number of prisoners killed ranged from about 71,000 to about 707,000, or about 6,700 per year.




2/06/2021

American military scientists tested the first hydrogen bomb on the Marshall Islands with an explosive yield of 10.4 megatons, the Ivy Mike test, 1952.

On November 1, 1952, U.S. military scientists demonstrated the first human hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands, a test site about 9,000 kilometers from the United States. Ivy Mike, as the hydrogen bomb was commonly called, was an explosive force of about 10.4 megatons of TNT explosive, about 700 times the explosive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, which exploded and killed about 160,000 people. Ivy Mike set a record for the largest explosion in history, making it the fourth largest nuclear test conducted by the United States in the 20th century.

 The Ivy Mike test was designed based on the principles of the thermonuclear device that had first been tested at the George test about a year earlier. Using a Nagasaki-type implosion device, a secondary bomb was detonated from a cylindrical tank about 30 centimeters thick filled with deuterium, a stable isotope of hydrogen, the cooling liquid. The trigger used the principle of nuclear fission, and the secondary energy drew its energy from nuclear fusion. This is the same reaction that provides energy to the sun. Significantly different from the atomic bomb, the new hydrogen bomb is a destructive super-bomb. Not only does it split an atom in two, but it also fuses hydrogen atoms together to form a third atom. Ivy Mike is a sausage-shaped object that weighs about 82 tons, stands about 6 meters tall, and has a diameter of about 2 meters.

 The detonation of the hydrogen bomb created a boiling mushroom cloud in the stratosphere that was up to 50 kilometers long and over 100 kilometers wide. Scientists observed the explosion from a boat at a distance of 50 kilometers. They underestimated the explosive power and saw the cloud just above their heads and felt the irradiated coral remnants raining down on them. It produced a fireball of about 150 million degrees, about 4.8 kilometers in diameter and many times stronger than the sun. El Gelab Island, where Ivy Mike was placed, was completely obliterated, with only a crater about 50 meters deep remaining. The fallout was blown into the Pacific Ocean and the neighboring Marshall Islands.

 Many other hydrogen bomb tests followed from Ivy Mike. A nuclear weapon capable of detonating the five that were constructed was produced in January 1954. These weaponized versions were tested during Operation Castle, a series of hydrogen-based bomb tests in March of the same year, New Castle Bravo, which unleashed about 15 megatons, about two and a half times as much as Ivy Mike, making it the largest nuclear test in the United States. The radioactive fallout contaminated populated islands and Japan's Daigo Fukuryu Maru, making it the worst radiological incident in the history of American nuclear testing. If the fireball and radioactivity from the hydrogen bomb radiate into the atmosphere, just as the dinosaurs became extinct some 66 million years ago, humanity, with the earth surrounded by radiation, will enjoy a similar fate. 




2/05/2021

In Afghanistan, a landmine exploded, a boy was blown away, his lower leg amputated, and a few minutes later he died of blood loss.

 In Afghanistan, a boy was blown up when he stepped on a landmine and it exploded. He was exposed to radiation all over his body, and the lower legs of both feet were amputated. The boy died a few minutes later after stepping on the landmine and being exposed to the explosion. The majority of child victims of landmines around the world are boys. Boys are most likely to come into contact with landmines and unexploded ordnance as they participate in outdoor activities such as herding livestock, gathering wood and food, and collecting scrap metal. In February 2019, the United Nations announced that casualties in Afghanistan from landmines and other explosive devices had more than tripled since 2012.5,554 mine casualties in 2019, about 80 percent civilian, with children accounting for 43 percent of civilian casualties.6 Government forces since 2014 and caused by the conflict between Taliban militants. Afghan militants have used roadside bombs and landmines to target government security forces, and deadly mines have caused civilian casualties.

 About half of the victims exposed to landmines die from complications such as exposure injuries and infections. The other half, if they survive, become severely disabled. Almost one limb is lost. Three-quarters of amputations caused by landmines are below the knee. Another 20% are femoral amputations. Lower extremities account for about 95% of all losses. Cambodia has a particularly high rate of earthquake exposure, with about 1 in 234 people undergoing amputation surgery. In Angola, Africa, the number of limb amputees is about 20,000 or more.

 Amputation is necessary because the muscles and bones of the limbs are destroyed and frustrated by landmines. Amputation is necessary because of the bacterial infection that accompanies the wound. Not only are limbs blown off by landmine explosions, but they are also amputated to prevent life-threatening infections. Landmines bring even more devastating burdens to the civilian population, on top of the exhaustion caused by war. Landmine survivors find it difficult to work in their communities, yet they receive little support from society. Landmine survivors are excluded from their homes and communities.

 The number of amputees due to landmines is high among farmers in small-scale mountainous areas. According to the August 1996 report, in order of the number of amputees by number of landmines, Vietnam had about 60,000 amputees due to about 3.5 million landmines. Afghanistan had about 10 million landmines, resulting in about 35,000 amputations. Angola has about 15 million landmines and about 30,000 amputees. Cambodia has about 8 million landmines and about 25,000 amputees. The number of victims of amputation is about three times higher than in Europe and the United States. The number of A-bomb survivors does not include those who are missing. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.




Fifteen Vietnamese civilians were killed and four injured by the explosion of a mine on a country road 8 km west of Tuy Hòa, March 18, 1966.A mother became a victim of a landmine explosion and her daughter cried out beside the corpse.

About 15 Vietnamese civilians were killed and four others wounded in a landmine explosion on a rural road about 8 km west of Tuy Hoa in Sout...