Terror in South Vietnam. These children were killed by Viet Cong guerrillas during a raid on a village 10miles north of the Capital, Saigon.

Just after the U.S. military entered the Vietnam War, the Vietcong attacked a village 10 kilometers north of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The Vietcong guerrillas indiscriminately murdered numerous South Vietnamese children.
　By November 1964, when Johnson was re-elected as US president, the South Vietnamese government was experiencing a series of unstable civil unrest, and the South Vietnam Liberation Front (Viet Cong) shifted from guerrilla warfare to large-scale conventional warfare. The U.S. forces were tougher, and in March 1965, U.S. troops landed in Da Nang and launched a sustained air offensive against North Vietnam. When South Vietnamese government leaders began to call for an immediate attack, the U.S. military offered a quid pro quo of air strikes on North Vietnam in exchange for reforms on the South Vietnamese side. The U.S. military stepped up its attacks on North Vietnamese infiltration routes in Laos and dared the U.S. Navy to conduct covert operations along the North Vietnamese coast. In retaliation for North Vietnamese looting in the South, U.S. and U.S. South Vietnamese forces conducted joint aerial bombardments of the North.
　On the afternoon of December 24, 1964, while many Americans in Saigon were preparing to celebrate Christmas Eve, the Vietcong bombed the Brink Hotel, a dormitory for American officers near Saigon's business district. The Vietcong bombed the Brink Hotel, a dormitory for American officers near Saigon's business district. The bombing was one of the most devastating acts of Viet Cong terrorism, killing two Americans and wounding 51 Americans and South Vietnamese.
　On January 17, 1965, South Vietnam issued a decree expanding the army's draft. Buddhists revolted in the streets, and the civil war quickly spread from city to city in South Vietnam, culminating in the destruction of the U.S. intelligence agency in Hue and the burning to death of a 17-year-old girl. The regime in Saigon was overthrown, while fierce fighting continued in the provinces surrounding the capital, and the Vietcong gradually gained the upper hand. The armed Viet Cong occupied Binh Gia village, a coastal village near Saigon with a population of about 6,000, for four days, killing about six American soldiers and 177 South Vietnamese soldiers. To break the tide of the war, they conducted retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam in late January.
　On the morning of February 7, 1965, the Vietcong attacked the U.S. Army's Holloway base and airstrip near Pleiku in the Central Highlands, killing about nine U.S. soldiers and wounding more than 100 others. On the same day, about 49 U.S. fighter jets attacked Dong Hoi Barracks in Viet Cong over the Demilitarized Zone, and the next day, South Vietnamese government forces attacked Vinh Barracks in Viet Cong. on February 10, Viet Cong blew up a hotel in Qui Nhon, killing about 23 soldiers and injuring many others trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building. On March 2, U.S. and South Vietnamese government warplanes blew up a North Vietnamese ammunition depot and naval base. On February 26, they reinforced the air base at Da Nang for the North bombing, and landed on March 8. The arrival of Da Nang marked an irrevocable step in the American military process of entering the Vietnam War.

 

Cleaning out a cave on a Saipan, US Marines perched on a seaside cliff lower a charge of explosives and swing it into the cave opening in the sheer rock wall to blow up any enemy troops who may be still holed up inside.

 In the Pacific War, American troops lowered explosives from the top of a seaside cliff and swung them into the opening of a cave in a sheer rock wall to sweep away Japanese soldiers in a cave on Saipan. They also blew up and killed any Japanese soldiers and civilians who might be hiding in the cave on that cliff. On top of the cliff by the sea were the bodies of the Japanese snipers who had been killed in the explosion. Only a few minutes before, he had been sniping at American soldiers and civilians on the beach, but the American sniper had shot and killed the Japanese soldier himself. Most tragic of all was the suicide by jumping off the cliffs at the northern end of the island. A Japanese man had jumped off the cliff on the north face of Cape Mappi. American soldiers used loudspeakers to persuade the Japanese that they would not be harmed, but obviously to no avail.
　In the Battle of Saipan, many Japanese soldiers and civilians were unable to surrender or survive. In order to surrender, they had to flee under fire and shellfire. The Japanese forbade anyone to surrender to death. Anyone who surrendered to the Americans risked being killed by the Japanese soldiers. The last surviving Japanese soldier in the cave held a large Japanese sword and threatened to slit the throat of any Japanese who surrendered to the Americans. The Japanese soldier also chose to commit suicide rather than be executed by his own side for trying to surrender to the Americans.
　Shortly after sunset on July 6, the remaining Japanese soldiers began to assemble for a Hail Mary attack that would destroy them all. At 4:55 a.m. on July 7, the first Japanese officer arrived, brandishing a sword above his head and shouting Hail, followed by thousands of Japanese soldiers charging in. The largest Hail Mary attack of the Pacific War lasted about 12 hours before it was annihilated, killing a total of about 4,311 Japanese soldiers. About 406 American troops were killed in action, and about 512 were wounded. U.S. forces occupied Saipan and declared it safe on July 9, 1944, more than three weeks after the start of the invasion.
　At 4:55 a.m. on July 7, the first Japanese officers arrived, brandishing swords overhead and shouting Hail Mary, followed by a charge by thousands of Japanese soldiers. The Hail Mary attack lasted for about 12 hours before it was annihilated, and a total of about 4,311 Japanese soldiers were killed. About 406 American troops were killed in action, and about 512 were wounded.
　Saipan has been occupied and colonized by Japanese forces since World War I. When about 127,000 U.S. troops invaded from June 15, 1944, there were about 26,000 Japanese troops, 6,000 naval personnel and 30,000 civilians on Saipan. About 24,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in action and about 5,000 committed suicide. About 912 Japanese POWs survived. About 22,000 civilian Japanese were killed. About 3,426 American troops were killed and about 10,364 were wounded.

 

Burns caused by atomic bombs developed only on the parts of the body that directly faced the flash of light emitted during the explosion. Depending on the posture, direction, and position of the victim at the time of the Atomic bombing, the burn surface faced the hypocenter where the Hiroshima bomb exploded.

Burns caused by atomic bombs developed only on the parts of the body that directly faced the flash of light emitted during the explosion. Depending on the posture, direction, and position of the victim at the time of the bombing, the burn surface faced the hypocenter where the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded. The A-bomb survivors were escorted to the Army's Ninoshima Island Quarantine Station on Ninoshima Island, about 3 km offshore from Hiroshima Bay. Immediately after the explosion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the hospital was converted to a field hospital. Field hospitals in the A-bombed city were called field hospitals, and they became large-scale mobile facilities that treated the wounded in the open. Later, it functioned as a first aid station. Some of the initially admitted Hibakusha received temporary treatment in Ujina and were transported by sea from Ujina Port. Many of the survivors were severely exposed to the bombing, and about 70% of them died from the bombing despite treatment.　
　The burns caused by the atomic bombs were different from those caused by incendiary bombs and fires in conventional air raids. They developed only on the parts of the body that were directly exposed to the flash of light emitted during the explosion. According to an investigation report by the Army Medical Corps, when the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded, members of the Army Ship Communication Corps were lined up in the schoolyard of Senda-machi National School, about 1.8 km south of the hypocenter. They were nude or semi-nude and formed a formation in the schoolyard. In a posture of resting from care, we listened to a cautionary tale from a senior officer of the ship's communications team. A strong flash of light came from the left side against the front of the formation. Instantly, all the members of the squadron either lay on the ground or took shelter in air-raid shelters. Those who were in line in the schoolyard received burns mainly on the left side of their bodies.
　After the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded on August 6, 1945, the Japanese Army Ship Command, commonly known as the "Dawn Corps," selected the Ninoshima Island Quarantine Station as a base for the rescue of seriously injured survivors. From around 10:00 a.m. on August 6, the injured who had been exposed to the bombing in Hiroshima City were brought to Ninoshima Island one after another by boat. From around 10:00 a.m. on August 6, injured people who had been exposed to the bombing in Hiroshima City were brought to Ninoshima Island by boat one after another. The maximum number of detainees reached more than 10,000. Based on testimonies and the number of remains unearthed, it was estimated that about 70% of the A-bomb survivors died in the atomic bombing, and around September 1945, quarantine station staff and others collected the remains from the premises of the Mabiki quarantine station and erected a memorial tower in the form of a mound for 1,000 people. Later, in July 1955, about 2,000 of the remains from Ninoshima Island were enshrined in the Hiroshima City war dead memorial tower in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
　After the Sino-Japanese War, the Ninoshima Quarantine Station quarantined war-wounded soldiers returning from overseas battlefields to prevent infectious diseases. The Sanyo Railway was extended to Hiroshima on June 10, 1894 before the start of the Sino-Japanese War, and the Ujina Line for military use was completed on August 4 after the declaration of war on the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese army gathered in Hiroshima. Japanese troops were assembled in Hiroshima and shipped out from Ujina. The number of soldiers returning to Hiroshima was similarly large. Geographically, Ninoshima Island was in close proximity to Ujina. On Ninoshima Island, mountains and water were available, making it convenient for quarantine operations to prevent infectious diseases.

Nazi German troops massacred a large number of surrendering Soviet prisoners of war. The bodies of captured Soviet soldiers, driven into the trenches and killed, piled up.

Nazi German troops massacred a large number of surrendering Soviet prisoners of war. The bodies of captured Soviet soldiers, driven into trenches and killed, piled up. The Nazi Wehrmacht's campaign of extermination was a war crime. During this period, Kurt Wafner (1918-2007) witnessed and collected photographs of the atrocities committed by the Nazi German army. The Wehrmacht was just as brutal as the SS and police, and after the "evacuation of the Minsk ghetto," in which some 6,000 to 10,000 Russians and Jews were purged in November 1941 alone, he went to see hell with his own eyes. The place was littered with broken glass, clothing, body parts of murdered people, and dead babies gnawed on by rats.
　Kurt Waffner was drafted into the army in 1939 and served in the labor service. His enrollment in engineering school was cut short by military service; he was released from military service in the summer of 1939, citing poor eyesight. Later overturned, he served in the artillery in Frankfurt, where his eye disease worsened, and he took a clerical job. 1941 saw him sent to guard French prisoners of war in Berlin. Using the tactics of a good soldier, he did not contribute to the war effort. The situation changed dramatically when the Nazi Germans invaded Eastern Europe, and he was sent to the Eastern Front. In his unit, he met two Communists. They were sent to guard the Russian prisoners of war in Minsk. They had been sent to guard Russian prisoners of war in Minsk. One of the Communists let some of the POWs go, excusing himself as "dead drunk," and was arrested by the military police and disappeared.
　As the Nazi German army went dark in World War II, Kurt Wachner continued his underground activities in the physics laboratory of Siemens AG in an effort to get on the sick list. After World War II, under the East German regime, he joined the militia and the Communist Party, but continued to hold anarchist views; in 1947, he was asked to help the secret police, which he refused. Suffering from tuberculosis, he quit the militia. Trained as a librarian, he left the Communist Party in 1950. He worked in a variety of jobs, including as a publishing editor, head of the Roman Zeitung, which published a weekly serial novel, author of radio plays, and journalist. He was always aware of the repression of state censorship. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he got in touch with the German anarchist movement and wrote articles about his experiences and photographs. 2000 saw the publication of his autobiography, My Life as a Book Lover and Anarchist. He published his autobiography, My Life as a Book Lover and Anarchist, in 2000 and died on March 10, 2007.
　After the defeat of Nazi National Socialism, the military brass and general staff gathered and propagated the legend of the "clean Wehrmacht. The troops did their military duty with decency and dignity, keeping their distance from Hitler and the Nazi regime. The atrocities committed by Himmler's Einsatzgruppen were known only after the fact. Perpetrators and accomplices of serious crimes were able to speak of their innocence. However, the Wehrmacht as a whole is an organization that refuses to acknowledge its active participation in Nazi war crimes. The military was complicit in but documented three major crimes: extermination of Jews, genocide of prisoners of war, and terrorism against civilians. These war crimes, committed in violation of international law and beyond all rules of war, determined above all the brutality of the war against the Soviet Union. The same war crimes were executed in other parts of the world, such as the Balkans and Italy. The primacy of politics over war no longer applies. In the war of extermination of the Nazi National Socialists, political goals and war aims became indistinguishable.
　After 1945, thousands of perpetrators and hundreds of thousands of their accomplices returned to German soil. They found themselves in postwar German society and spoke eloquently about what had happened. What a veil of fog was then created in the journals and literature, where interest in clarification and prosecution waned.

 

In World War II, a Soviet soldier wearing an inappropriately thin uniform froze to death on a snowy road in Finland, near the Arctic Circle, despite the fact that it was winter.

 A Soviet soldier dies after freezing to death on a snow-covered road in Finland, near the Arctic Circle, during the Eastern Front of World War II. The uniforms of the Russian troops at the Battle of Finland were inappropriately thin, even though the winter season was the coldest in European history, at about -43°C (-4°F). In a frigid, snow-covered forest where sunlight lasted only a few hours, exposed bodies frostbitten by raging blizzards and howling winds, piles of corpses froze in minutes, gaining the solidity of a brick wall. Freezing to death means organs slowly shut down until they stop shivering and doze off after hypothermia sets in. The corpse often froze to the solidity of a brick.
 　While Hitler's Nazi Germans were waiting for the next blow from the invasion of Poland, Stalin's Soviet troops decided to strike a blow for Finland themselves. The Soviet-Finnish War, dubbed the Winter War, began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II. It ended about three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13, 1940. Stalin's Soviet Union invaded Finland with its fighter planes and tank corps in the early morning hours of November 30, 1939, and the next day, December 1, established a puppet government in Finland in a remote town. Surprisingly, the Soviet Red Army's campaign was not a blitzkrieg one. Stalin, a fickle dictator, thought he could invade Finland with second-rate troops and equipment. Over a period of about two months of fighting, all Allied forces, Finland, a small country of about 4 million people, bravely confronted the Soviet Union, a superpower of about 180 million people. The Allied forces cheered excitedly at the war as if it had been won on March 31, 1940, at a tragic cost to the Finnish army. Finnish casualties were about 24,923 killed in action, 43,557 wounded in action, and about 1,000 taken prisoner. Soviet casualties were approximately 126,875 killed or missing, 26,4908 wounded, and 5,600 captured.
　The Allied forces had no realistic strategy to help the Finnish army. When the Soviet Red Army finally broke out into a full-scale offensive, the Finnish forces were crushed with ruthless efficiency. in February 1940, the Soviet troops resumed their onslaught following the maximum bombardment and broke through the Finnish defenses at the Karelian isthmus. The Finnish army, low on ammunition and on the verge of a crisis, agreed to peace terms in March. However, Hitler's Nazi Germans witnessed the incompetence of the Soviet army during these almost two months in the tragic interlude in the Finnish forest. Underestimating the capabilities of the Soviet army, the Eastern Front invasion of the Soviet Union was disastrous for the Nazi German army. On June 22, 1941, after about 15 months of truce from the Winter War, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, which continued the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

 

A Frenchman who collaborated with the Nazi German army was shot dead by a French police firing squad in Rennes on November 21, 1944, after the liberation of France. They were photographed at the moment the bullets hit him.

A Frenchman who collaborated with the Nazi German army was shot dead by a French police firing squad in Rennes on November 21, 1944, after the liberation of France. They were photographed at the moment the bullets hit them. Just before he was put to death, the cord tied to the executioner's table flew apart.

　The legal purges (épuration légale) were a series of official trials that followed France's liberation from Nazi Germany and the fall of the Vichy regime in World War II. The trials took place mainly between 1944 and 1949, and the legal actions that followed lasted for several decades. France was liberated on August 25, 1944, when the last German troops surrendered to the Allied forces in Paris.

　Unlike the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, this was a legal purge that took place only in France. About 300,000 cases were investigated, ranging from the highest officials of the Vichy government who were collaborators with Nazi Germany. More than half of the cases were closed without prosecution. from 1944 to 1951, official French courts sentenced some 6,763 people to death for treason and other crimes. Of these, 3,910 were sentenced in absentia. The actual number of death sentences carried out amounted to about 791. The largest number was for the crime of national depravity, in which some 49,723 people lost their citizenship.

　In the immediate aftermath of the liberation of France from Nazi Germany, there was a series of convictions, executions, public humiliation and assaults, and detention of suspected Nazi German collaborators in what was called the Wild Purge. This period was preceded by the establishment of the Provisional Government of France, which was occupied and ruled by Nazi Germany. It was estimated that about 10,500 people were sentenced and executed, both before and after the liberation of France. The Court of Justice handed down some 6,763 death sentences. Of these, 3,910 were sentenced in absentia, and about 2,853 were sentenced in the presence of the accused. About 73% of these 2,853 sentences were commuted by Charles de Gaulle, and about 767 more were commuted. The military tribunals ordered the execution of about 770 people. The total number of people executed before and after the liberation was about 10,500, including, among others, officials and leaders of military organizations. The U.S. military estimated the number of summary executions after liberation at about 80,000; the French Minister of the Interior in March 1945 claimed that the number executed was about 105,000.

　The initial purges began before and after the liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944, when the anger of French citizens turned against collaborators of Nazi Germany. Punishments after arrest included beatings, torture interrogation, and summary executions. Most of the women collaborators had their heads shaved, and some had swastikas carved on their foreheads. There were three types of trials for Nazi German collaborators: the first was in criminal courts for violating Article 75 of the French Penal Code, which outlawed treason and sharing information with the enemy; the second was in civilian courts for suspects who did not violate specific laws but whose actions were considered unpatriotic; and the third was in public opinion, where the general public was against certain celebrities. The third was tried and executed for treason due to public outrage over a particular celebrity. 

Infantrymen passed a dead German as they crossed a stream. The American Armies with the attack to the east encountered any serious organized resistance in the Harz Mountains

On the Western Front of World War II, American infantrymen passed the body of a slain Nazi German soldier as they crossed a stream. On April 10, 1945, the U.S. Army resumed its assault on the east with 22 divisions. In the Harz Mountains, they encountered serious organized resistance from the Germans. The Germans hurriedly regrouped their forces with about 10,000 soldiers and initially raided the Ruhr area. When that failed, they then rushed into the Thuringia area. This also failed, and the German army was destroyed when the last small army was surrounded by American troops.

  The Western Front in Central Europe in World War II broke out on March 22, 1945, when American troops crossed the Rhine River and arrived in the Remagen area to fight against the Germans. by the night of March 22-23, American troops crossed the Rhine River at Oppenheim. By the night of March 22-23, American troops had crossed the Rhine at Oppenheim, and occupied the area on the west bank of the Rhine from Bonn to Neuss. on March 26, American troops crossed the Rhine north and south of Worms, and encountered heavy resistance from German troops on the river bank. They broke through the resistance and expanded their bridgehead. American troops crossed south of the Weser and British troops crossed north of the Weser. Allied paratroopers parachuted into the eastern side of the Rhine. Allied forces invaded toward the east side of the Rhine, encircling Germany's vast industrial Ruhr region and capturing German defense units. The invasion continued into Germany and was met with German defiance in scattered areas.

　Soviet forces entered German territory from the Eastern Front. In an attempt to escape Soviet capture, Nazi German troops surrendered by the thousands to Allied forces in the west. American, British and Canadian troops in northern Germany halted their invasion when they reached a line where they thought they would encounter Soviet forces. American troops continued their invasion of Czechoslovakia and Austria to join up with the Soviet forces. At Strehler, a small village about 20 kilometers south of Torgau in Saxony on the Elbe River coast in eastern Germany, they met one Soviet soldier at 11:25 a.m. on April 25, 1945. It was later called "Elbe day" when the American reconnaissance team and the Soviet SS met.
  On May 2, 1945, the German forces in Italy surrendered. On May 9, 1945, the surrender of all German forces became effective, ending the Second World War in Europe. As a result, the Elbe Oath became the final symbol of the U.S.-Soviet Allied forces, and gradually deteriorated international relations, leading to the beginning of the Cold War.

 

In order to suppress the Koreans who participated in the 3.1 Independence Movement, which resisted the aggression of the Japanese Empire, the Korean Governor-General had them publicly hanged as state criminals.

In 1910, the Korean Peninsula was annexed by Japan and Korea, and in March 1919, the independence movement of the 3.1 Revolution broke out. Independence movements sprang up all over the Korean peninsula. The total number of incidents was about 847 in about 618 locations. The number of Koreans arrested by the Japanese Imperial Army, military police, and police officers reached about 587,641. Of these, only about 7,816 were convicted. About 553 Koreans were killed and about 1,499 were injured in the Independence Day Massacre. For Koreans, the March 11 independence movement was a movement for national liberation and to restore freedom to the colonized Koreans. In response to the repression of the Japanese Empire, the Koreans increased their counter-violence with primitive weapons and stone-throwing buildings. They committed abuses and massacres against Japanese and Korean officers and lieutenants. Koreans attacked and set fire to institutions symbolizing Japanese colonial rule and the annexation of Japan and Korea.

　About 33 religious leaders gathered to plan the reading of the Declaration of Independence on March 3 at Pagoda Park, now Tapgol Park, in the heart of Gyeongseong, Seoul, to coincide with the funeral of King Lee Tae, the first emperor of the Korean Empire, who died on January 22. Thirty-three religious leaders representing the nation, consisting of 15 Tendonists, 16 Christians, and two Buddhists, read the Declaration of Independence at the Taehwa Hall in Insa-dong and sang a Hail Mary, a change from the afternoon of March 1. We hereby declare that our Korea is an independent country and that the Korean people are a free people. We hereby declare that our country is an independent country and that the Korean people are free people, so that we may declare to all nations of the world the cause of equality of mankind, and so that we may declare to all our descendants the legitimate right of national self-preservation forever. The Declaration of Independence was issued. On March 3, thousands of Korean students gathered at the Pagoda Park, where the proclamation of independence was to be held, to raise the Taegeuk flag in a pro-independence demonstration in Seoul, following the funeral of King Lee Tae. On March 10, the movement spread from the South Korean region to the whole of Korea, and on April 11, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established in Shanghai. In early April, riots spread all over the Korean peninsula with various strata of people from peasants to laborers joining in, attacking police stations, town halls, elementary schools, etc., and causing widespread abuse and massacres. After the 3.1 declaration, a campaign of intimidation developed for about three months.

　Immediately after the declaration of independence, the Japanese Empire arrested the ringleaders and disbanded the crowd. The use of troops was limited to areas where it would not adversely affect the future administration of Chosun; from March 10 onward, the use of troops was actively extended outside the area. By the end of May, out of the more than two million participants, about 7,509 Koreans were killed, 15,961 wounded and 46,948 prisoners. 

 

In the Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops massacred a Chinese peasant by splitting the abdomen with farm tools and leaving the bodies skewered on the farmland with the tools still stuck in them.

When the Sino-Japanese war broke out, the Japanese army, as a great strongman, inspired with madness in various parts of China and repeated various barbaric acts, including massacres, which became a stain of war crimes. The Japanese army ignored the right of the Chinese people to ask for special consideration, etc., as they were a non-conquered people. Japanese troops massacred Chinese peasants by splitting their abdomens with farming tools and skewering their corpses on the farmland with the tools still stuck in them. Refugees were often bayoneted to death by drunken Japanese soldiers. Each area became a madhouse of rape, massacre, and looting. The international refugee zone, which had been set up by the Nanking government for the displaced, was sealed with some 200,000+ refugees. As a concentration camp, the Japanese army dragged thousands of Chinese out of the city and massacred them. They were used as bayonet training grounds, and as sacrifices, they were sprayed with oil and burned to death.

　The Sino-Japanese War broke out from the Rohgou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, and the Japanese army immediately overwhelmed the Chinese army by force. The Chinese army even threw in a large number of reserve troops, which led to increased casualties. They suffered heavy losses before they could drag the Japanese forces from the coastal battle to the interior. The Chinese forces were also depleted of reserves and fell into a war situation where they could not even fight back. The Japanese were unable to repel the Chinese forces even in fixed positions, and the scourge of mass abuse and genocide broke out in Nanking and elsewhere. Japanese troops broke through the front line of the Chinese army and the invasion reached Nanjing. The Chinese army in Nanjing had no time to accommodate the retreating Chinese troops from Shanghai. Retreat routes were blocked and command posts were in disarray. The Chinese were unable to destroy any buildings or factories that would be of military or economic value to the Japanese.

　The Japanese army entered Nanking on December 12, 1937. There was a long retreat from Nanking, with some 500,000 or more residents and soldiers fleeing on their own. The victorious Japanese army looted, abused and massacred in every direction in Nanjing. Hundreds of Chinese troops and civilian officials who escaped through the gates of the only remaining Nanking City to the north bank of the Yangtze River were swept away by Japanese machine guns and submerged. Hundreds of Chinese were swept away by the overland route stretching to the Shimonoseki Gate, and their bodies piled up in a heap. About 12,000 stores and houses were looted, and the looted goods were transported to Shanghai. By massacring Nanking, the Japanese forced the Chinese to welcome the occupation of Nanking and restore order. They also looted the American, British and German embassies and foreign buildings in Nanjing. In a 100-day investigation, the International Rescue Committee in Nanjing found that the Japanese had massacred at least 42,000 people in Nanjing alone, including some 22,490 women and children. It estimated that about 300,000 Chinese were massacred during the invasion from Shanghai to Nanking. The damage to Nanking was about 246 million Chinese dollars, about 1% of which was military damage and the rest was mainly looting and arson. 

 

When the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded, a 22-year-old female worker suffered severe atomic bomb sickness about 11 days after the bombing and was escorted to the Omura Naval Hospital, where she died of the bombing.

The Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, and a 22-year-old female worker was exposed to the bomb. About 11 days after the bombing, she suffered from severe atomic bomb sickness and was escorted to the Omura Naval Hospital in Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture, where she was hospitalized on August 20. He was admitted to the 12th Hospital and diagnosed with facial burns, left and right upper extremity burns, left and right knee joint burns, and left and right leg back burns. He had second-degree burns on his face, both upper limbs, both knees, and the backs of both feet. The entire surface of the burns was covered with black colored crusts. Pus flowed out from most of the wounds. There was a foul smell of pus in the air.

　Upon admission, the patient was immediately given a subcutaneous injection of 500CC of tetanus serum. This was followed by daily intravenous injections of 200 ml of 25% dextrose with vitamins B and C. His general condition became debilitated, and his white blood cell count decreased to about 4,700 cells/mmli on September 8. No medical records of his subsequent course were noted. He was presumed to have died of A-bomb disease in the near future.

　She was exposed to gamma rays of radioactivity released by the explosion of the atomic bomb, which destroyed the cells of his body. Whenever a person received a burn injury, he or she was exposed to gamma radiation. It also induced A-bomb disease, which caused the blood to be digested, resulting in hemorrhage, immune deficiency, bloody stools, and early death. Even young women began to look old and their hair fell off. The devastation and photographs of some of the survivors were recorded as much as possible.

     After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, a large naval air force was newly established in Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture. It became a base for the mass production of fighter planes and suicide missions. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, a new naval hospital was established. On August 9, 1945, at around 3:00 p.m., we received a notice from the police that a large number of casualties had occurred in Nagasaki City. A rescue team was dispatched immediately. At around 5:00 p.m., Omura City informed us that the number of casualties in Nagasaki City was countless and requested that we take about 1,000 people to the Omura Naval Hospital along the railroad line. The severely exposed were escorted from Urakami in Nagasaki City to Omura Station by a separate train. After arriving at Omura Station around 8:00 p.m., they were transported to the hospital by fire engines and other vehicles. As many as 758 A-bomb survivors were admitted at one time. In addition, severely exposed survivors from relief stations in Nagasaki Prefecture were escorted one after another to the Omura Naval Hospital.

 

In the People's Republic of China, a suspected prisoner was brought to his knees for execution by the Chinese police to be execute the death penalty pointed their rifles at him from behind his back.

In November 1989, in the People's Republic of China, an execution by firing squad was carried out. With the suspect prisoner on his knees, the Chinese police executing the death penalty held a rifle to the prisoner's back. This was just before the execution by firing squad. The prisoner was then shot to death.In 2019, excluding China, about 86% of all executions worldwide were carried out in Iran (251), Saudi Arabia (184), Iraq (over 100), Egypt (over 32), and the United States (about 22). The total number of executions in Vietnam and North Korea, for example, is completely unknown.

　In the People's Republic of China, more than 100,000 people were detained or executed without trial for reasons inconvenient to the government. Chinese students and citizens were also arrested and detained during the 1989 democratization movement. Many of the prisoners were detained without prosecution or trial. Forced into unreasonable and unfair trials, they were detained under penalty of death, and the widespread anti-government activities in the mid-1990s were checked by a series of executions.

　In the People's Republic of China, thousands of people have been killed in political repression. According to a survey by Amnesty International, more than 1,510 people were executed in 1991 alone. About 1,650 people were sentenced to death. The number of executions in the People's Republic of China is more than the total number of executions in the entire world. The exact number is a closely guarded state secret: about 18,194 executions were reported in China's state-run newspapers in the 1990s, and about 1,263 in 1999 alone. The death penalty is an eye for an eye overflowing in Chinese literature and tradition. The judiciary, which discovers the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, has been greatly influenced by the government.

　The body of Qiu Xuanming, a prisoner executed in Shanghai, China, in June 2006, arrives at the crematorium from the execution site. His head, which had been shot in the back at close range, was wrapped in white gauze. His clothes were identical to those he had worn in his last court appearance at the hearing about an hour earlier. His shirt was covered with a large amount of blood, his abdomen was cut open, and his intestines were spilling out. Within minutes of his death from a gunshot to the back of the head, his organs were removed. (The New York Times, March 11, 2001) In 1984, the Chinese government issued a notice, "Provisional Regulations on the Use of Dead Bodies or Organs of Condemned Prisoners," stipulating that condemned prisoners be executed by firing squad. In 1984, the Chinese government issued a notice titled "Provisional Regulations on the Use of Dead Bodies or Organs of Condemned Prisoners," which stated that condemned prisoners should be executed by firing squad, but that "dead bodies or organs of the following categories of condemned prisoners may be used if the family refuses to collect the body, the prisoner volunteers the body before execution, or the family gives consent. China became the first country to carry out coronavirus-related executions in 2020.

 

Due to the civil war in El Salvador, young men of the guerrilla forces of the National Liberation Front were killed by the death squads of the El Salvador military regime.

The El Salvador civil war in central Central America resulted in the killing of young men of the National Liberation Front guerrilla forces by the death squads of the El Salvador military government. There was mass abuse and genocide by the military government against all rebel groups, including assassination squads and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, especially in rural areas. The indiscriminate violence fueled a guerrilla insurgency and a full-scale civil war ensued. As Third World economies became impoverished, the gap between the rich and poor widened among the majority of citizens. In El Salvador, 77% of the cultivable land belonged to .01% of the population. A handful of privileged groups control the real power. The economic impoverishment causes social unrest that escalates into a serious reorganization of the social system and armed suppression. Some of the privileged classes oppressed the citizens by force to suppress the social unrest in order to retain their vested interests. Governments controlled by the privileged class import large amounts of weapons from developed countries. As it trades more and more products with the developed countries, it imports more and more, the currency rate worsens, and it borrows more and more from the developed countries. Social unrest causes extreme unrest among citizens, leading to civil unrest. In order to suppress the civil war, a military coup d'état led to the excessive import of military weapons, and a military government was established.

The El Salvadoran Civil War, which broke out between the military government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) from October 15, 1979 to January 16, 1992, was a military coup that took place on October 15, 1979. The military coup d'état on October 15, 1979 was followed by the military government's killing of anti-coup rebels and the guerrillas' killing of the military regime, and the beginning of the civil war. About 30,000 people were killed by right-wing death squads backed by government forces between 1979 and 1981.On December 11, 1981, they carried out the indiscriminate El Mozote massacre of more than 733 unarmed civilians, including about 146 women and children, in El Mozode, Morassán province.

　The disastrous civil war lasted for more than about 12 years. The civil war lasted for more than 12 years, during which the military government's Death Squad, trained in the U.S., deliberately targeted civilians and committed abuses and massacres, mainly through the military government's suppression of human rights, including the assassination of Catholic clergy, the murder of union leaders, activists, students and teachers, and the recruitment of child soldiers. committed kidnappings, bombings, and bank robberies to increase the revolution in the 1970s; in the 1980s, the FMLN killed several mayors, informants, and traitors. While a large number of civilians went missing, the United Nations reported that the El Salvador civil war killed more than about 75,000 people between 1979 and 1992. As a result of the civil war, nearly one million people were forcibly displaced within El Salvador and became refugees in Central America, Mexico, and the United States. The civil war ended with the Chapultepec Peace Accord on January 16, 1992.

　The U.S. government joined the military regime in the civil war by providing the military government of El Salvador with military aid of about one to two million dollars per day, and by providing necessary military training. The Salvadoran military government was considered a friendly ally by the U.S. during the Cold War, and by May 1983, U.S. military officers occupied senior positions in the El Salvadoran military, making key decisions and manipulating the civil war. Counterinsurgency tactics often targeted civilian populations indiscriminately. The UN estimated that the FMLN guerrillas were responsible for about 5% of the violence against civilians during the civil war, while the El Salvadoran military and assassination squads were responsible for about 85%. starting in 1990, the UN began peace negotiations for the El Salvador civil war and dispatched the United Nations Monitoring Mission in El Salvador. The final agreement, the Chapultepec Peace Accord, was signed in Mexico City, officially ending the civil war.

 

Shortly after Kuwait was liberated in the Gulf War, a Kuwaiti soldier raised a machine gun and acted smugly in front of the charred and trinket-strewn bodies of Iraqi soldiers.

On February 24, 1991, Kuwait was liberated by a massive invasion of Kuwait by US coalition forces. The day after it was liberated, the bodies of Iraqi soldiers were scattered all over Kuwait. Kuwaiti soldiers raised their machine guns in a pretentious manner in front of the burnt bodies of Iraqi soldiers. By the time the Iraqi army withdrew, some 600 oil wells had gone up in flames, their huge flames scorching the horizon. The Kuwaiti capital went up in smoke. Even the natural heritage was destroyed. The flames rose to a height of tens of meters. As the wind changed direction, thick smoke covered the sky and it became night in broad daylight.

  　In the Gulf War, about 148 American soldiers were killed in action, and about 457 were wounded. Other allied deaths were about 100 or so in Operation Desert Storm. The casualty figures on the Iraqi side are not officially released, but it was estimated that at least about 25,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed and about 75,000 more were wounded in action. Approximately 100,000 Iraqi civilians died as a result of war injuries directly attributable to the Gulf War and lack of adequate water, food, and medical supplies. Subsequent UN Security Council sanctions resulted in the deaths of approximately one million more Iraqis.

　The Gulf War broke out on August 2, 1990, when Iraqi forces invaded the neighboring oil-rich country of Kuwait. The Kuwaiti army was suddenly overwhelmed and retreated to Saudi Arabia. Within hours, Kuwait City was occupied and the Iraqis established a provisional provincial government. With the annexation of Kuwait, Iraq now controlled about 20 percent of the world's oil reserves. On the same day, August 2, the UN Security Council unanimously condemned the invasion and demanded Iraq's immediate withdrawal from Kuwait; on August 6, it banned all trade with Iraq worldwide; on August 9, it banned trade with Persia.

　On August 9, American forces reached the Persian Gulf and defended Saudi Arabia in Operation Desert Shield. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces increased the number of occupying troops in Kuwait to about 300,000, and on November 29, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraqi forces if they did not withdraw by January 15, 1991. On January 16, 1991, the first fighter jets were launched from a coalition aircraft carrier, launching the massive Operation Desert Storm offensive against Iraq. The bombers attacked targets in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The battle was broadcast live on television via satellite. Over the next six weeks, coalition forces conducted intensive airstrikes against military and civilian facilities in Iraq. Iraqi ground forces were powerless and retaliated by firing Scud (SCUD) missiles at Israel and Saudi Arabia.

　On February 24, a massive coalition ground offensive erupted, rapidly overwhelming Iraq's outdated and under-supplied forces. On the same day, the Iraqi army collapsed, leaving about 10,000 Iraqi soldiers as prisoners of war, and Kuwait was liberated. Most of the Iraqi army either surrendered or retreated back into Iraq and were destroyed. on February 28, the US military declared a ceasefire. on April 3, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687, formally ending the conflict. On April 6, Iraq accepted the UN resolution, and on April 11, the Security Council declared Resolution 687 in effect. Over the next decade, Iraqi forces frequently violated the peace agreement, and the allies continued to be bombed and UN sanctioned.

 

In the mid-1920s, the British police of the Shanghai International Settlement executed Chinese militants in the Shanghai Public Concession by firing squad.

In the mid-1920s, the British police of the Shanghai International Settlement carried out the death penalty by firing squad against Chinese militants in the Shanghai Public Concession. The bodies of Chinese armed rioters were left in a remote execution site.They suppressed radical Chinese forces such as Shanghai people's problematic behavior, arms smuggling, and extremism, and thoroughly suppressed the Asian race due to racial prejudice. They abused and massacred Chinese prisoners in iron cages, forcing them to wear shackles and beat them with bamboo sticks.

　The Shanghai Ministry of Works Police (SMP), the British colonial police, cracked down on radical activists causing disturbances in the Shanghai public concession. The Shanghai Municipal Council, the Ministry of Works Bureau, controlled the police, but from 1854 it was organized into a large scale overseas other races with a small group of only overseas British and a mixture of foreigners hired from the Hong Kong police and army. The Japanese section was expanding in the Hong Kong area in the northern part of the Shanghai public concession. The Foreigners' Department was organized according to a racial pecking order with Europeans at the top, with thorough control of the lethargic and lazy Asian organizations. The foreign residents of the Shanghai public concession controlled the organization and activities of the Shanghai Engineering Department police. Chinese and Indian Sikhs employed by the Shanghai Engineering Police were enslaved. Foreign residents of the Shanghai Public Concession came under the jurisdiction of consuls from other countries. In the Shanghai patrol, the exchange behavior of Chinese and foreigners, Sikhs and Japanese at the gates became a provocation for disturbances.

　The crime rate in Shanghai skyrocketed after 1913, and the Shanghai International Settlement police reached a critical level. In particular, the remnants of the Shanghai  Revolution, The crime rate in Shanghai skyrocketed after 1913, the Shanghai International Settlement police reached a critical level. In particular, the remnants of the Shanghai  Revolution, which began on July 12, 1913 to overthrow Yuan Shikai, but was suppressed on August 13, 1913, hid in Shanghai. 98 incidents of armed Kuomintang remnant soldiers attacking stores and houses occurred in Shanghai from 1914, and the number increased to 196 in 1916.

　The British won the First Opium War (1839-1842) against the Qing Dynasty, and by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, the British were able to cede Hong Kong Island in the Qing Dynasty of China and retain the opening of five treaty ports, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai, which could be controlled by foreigners. Among them, the Shanghai Public Concession was the largest bridgehead of the Qing Dynasty. The Shanghai International Settlement police controlled law and order with extraterritoriality; in 1863, the British and American concessions were formally joined to form the Shanghai Public Concession. Japan had the largest number of Japanese foreign residents in Shanghai from 1915 during World War I. With the Shanghai Incident in the 1930s, the Japanese rapidly made up about 80 percent of the extraterritorial foreigners in Shanghai. With the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941, Japanese troops raided and occupied Shanghai, and the Shanghai Public Concession ceased to exist. After 1949, when the People's Republic of China was established after the Pacific War, the city government, the Ministry of Works, became under the control of the mayor of Shanghai, a member of the Chinese Communist Party. 

(Hong Kong: reverted from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997; Hong Kong National Security Maintenance Law came into effect on July 1, 2020.)

Before the execution of the death penalty against Chinese armed rioters by the Shanghai Engineering Police in the UK.

The bodies of Chinese armed rioters were left in a remote execution site.

A summary judgment by an Israeli soldier led to the selection and execution of Palestinian civilians in front of the Wall and the removal of their bodies in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority, on March 31, 2002.

A summary judgment by Israeli soldiers selected Palestinian civilians for execution in Ramallah on March 31, 2002. The bodies of the executed Palestinians were carried out from the rows of Palestinians sitting against the wall. The remaining Palestinians were interrogated to boat the death penalty in front of the wall. To execute the Palestinians en masse, Israeli soldiers were roped off at the rear at gunpoint. He was shot in front of the wall in a summary judgment. Palestinians who escaped execution and survived were taken to concentration camps where they were detained and interrogated and subjected to abuse and massacres.

　The Palestinian Interim Authority announced that about 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Ramallah on March 31, 2002. In Ramallah, Palestinians arrested in a sweep of males between the ages of 16 and 45 were executed by separating them into the condemned and the detained through summary executions. The Israeli military declared Ramallah a closed military zone on March 31, excluding all non-Palestinian foreigners, and drew a covert speech control. Foreign news organizations were expelled from their branches and their offices were occupied to impose information control.

　In Ramallah, the Israeli army also opened fire on the foreign press from March 29. They shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian woman who was carrying her nine-month-old baby boy in her car. Ramallah is a city located in the central West Bank of the Palestinian Authority. It is the capital of the Palestinian Interim Authority and is located 10 km north of Jerusalem. during the Third Middle East War in 1967, Israeli forces occupied the West Bank and Gaza. In 2002, Israeli forces militarily invaded the Palestinian territories and established the separation wall.

　Four people were killed and seven seriously injured when two Israeli trucks rear-ended two Palestinian cars in the Palestinian Gaza Strip in December 1987, which had been under siege since 1967. Palestinian youths began throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. At once, the resistance movement spread to Palestinian citizens. The Intifada suggested that the occupation be shaken off in Arabic. Israeli troops killed about 1,000 Palestinians, including young men, by 1993. in September 2000, Israeli troops occupied a Muslim holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem. The second intifada broke out, with Palestinian youths throwing stones, armed groups attacking with small arms and rockets, and the Israeli army shooting and shelling.

 

At least 35 killed in Gaza as Israel ramps up airstrikes in response to rocket attacks between Palestine and Israel on May 12, 2021.

 Israel and Palestine exchanged violent attacks on May 12, 2021. About 35 people were killed in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. A number of Palestinian rockets were fired against Israel's Tel Aviv. Local media reported that one person was killed. The Israelis are poised to retaliate further. In Jerusalem in the Middle East, clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians visiting the holy city have continued since mid-April, the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The clashes were reciprocated by attacks between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that effectively controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas fired about 130 rockets into the vicinity of Tel Aviv, Israel, on the night of May 11. A large number of rockets were intercepted by the Israeli army, but some of them bombed Tel Aviv. One Israeli woman was killed and several others were injured. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that he would continue the attack with all his might and retaliate grievously against Hamas and others in the Gaza Strip.

　On May 11, Hamas fired about 500 rockets into southern Israel, killing two Israeli civilians. The Israelis responded with bombing raids, killing about 30 people, including children, and wounding about 200 in the Gaza Strip. The Arab League condemned Israel, and Turkey, in solidarity with the Muslim world, put international pressure on Israel. The United States, on the other hand, condemned Hamas in support of Israel's right to defend itself. It supported a two-state coexistence and permanent peace between Israel and a future Palestinian state.

Mahmud Hamas, APF

19 people were killed and 74 injured in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Jerusalem, where the bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many residents on their way.

The Patt Junction Bus bombing, carried out by Hamas in Jerusalem on June 18, 2002, was a suicide bombing on an Egged bus that killed 19 people and injured 74 more. Seventeen of the dead were residents of the Gilo area, including high school students on their way to school.
　At 7:50 a.m. on June 18, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber from Bethlehem boarded the Egged Line 32A bus from the Gilo district. Shortly thereafter, when the bus stopped in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, the bomb exploded from the front of the bus. His bomb belt contained metal balls for shrapnel in order to maximize casualties.
　The Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas issued a statement about the attack. The suicide bomber was identified as Muhammad al-Ghawl Hazzar, a 22-year-old student of Islamic law at An-Najah National University in Nablus. He had a nail-packed explosive device strapped to his body and boarded a bus during the morning rush hour as schoolchildren and commuters passed by on their way from Gilo to central Jerusalem. The explosion lifted the bus off the ground, ripped off its roof, and sent bodies flying out the windows. Two residents of Jabel Mukaber, a suburb of East Jerusalem, were tried and convicted of transporting a suicide bomber.On June 30, Israeli soldiers killed Muhanid Taher, a senior Hamas bomb maker, during a raid on a commando in Nablus. According to Israel, he was the man behind this and other attacks.
　The charred remains of the bus were shipped to the United States under the leadership of Zaka, an Israeli rescue and body-recovery group, to be displayed at the biennial Jewish Expo Fair in New York. Zaka works with volunteers to scrape up bits of blood and flesh from bomb sites and bury them in accordance with Jewish law. Zakah aimed to raise awareness of their work and to show the impact of suicide bombers.
　Muhammad al-Ghawl, a suicide bomber, said, "How wonderful it is that the fragments of my bombs kill my enemies and die myself. Not because I want to kill, but because I want the Palestinians to live like any other people. They die for the sake of the next generation. If God wills, injustice will disappear and victory will be ours. He stated in his suicide note three days ago. In Islam, fighting as a martyr, sacrificing oneself for God, is celebrated as jihad (holy war). The Palestinians considered it a righteous holy war to kill the Israelis who hunt them down with injustice from the religious New Year of giving their lives. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, who inspected the scene, declared that he would "fight Palestinian terrorism by all means," and launched a massive Palestinian invasion of the West Bank from midnight on June 18, 2002.

In the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded, the area around the Catholic Church of Nakamachi collapsed and burned down. The citizens of Nagasaki survived in only gathered together to search for their relatives and homes.

In the early morning hours of August 10, 1945, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded on August 9, 1945, the area around the Catholic Nakamachi Church collapsed and burned down after the bombing. It was located about 2.5 meters south-southeast of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. The area was completely destroyed by a second fire and the whole area was burnt to the ground. The heat rays from the atomic bomb caused combustible materials to ignite and reignite, leading to a huge fire. The Catholic Nakamachi Church was destroyed by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, leaving the outer walls and steeple.
　The situation in Nagasaki was different from other air raids in that the entire city was instantly turned into a burnt earth by the blast and the fire. Efforts to extinguish the fire and the medical team's efforts to rescue the victims were chaotic. As we waited for the time to pass, a small number of Nagasaki citizens who had survived because of their location gathered to search their homes and relatives. The Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, and exploded, killing or injuring about 120,820 people and setting about 18,409 houses on fire.
　At 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the explosion of the Nagasaki atomic bomb broke the windows of the cathedral and the interior collapsed due to the blast. A few hours later, the fire destroyed the roof of the cathedral, leaving only the steeple with the cross and the outer walls of the cathedral. Construction of the Nakamachi Church, located about 2.6 km south-southeast of the hypocenter, began in August 1981 with a donation from a French woman, and the dedication ceremony was held on September 8, 1897 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the martyrdom of the 26 saints. The chapel is a grand Romanesque building with brick walls painted with cement, and the main entrance has a steeple with four large clocks, one on each side of the exterior walls.
　In October 1951, the church was rebuilt with its exterior walls and steeple intact. In October 1951, the church was rebuilt with its exterior walls and steeple intact, and as such, it has been designated by the city of Nagasaki as a valuable remains of the atomic bombing, and an inscription has been placed by the church gate. The city of Nagasaki installed the nameplate to pray for the souls of those who were killed in and around the Nakamachi area of Nagasaki City, and to hope that such a horrific disaster will never be repeated.
　Yosuke Yamabata (1917-1966), a member of the press corps of the Army Headquarters, was transferred from Tokyo on August 1 to Fukuoka City on August 6. He had passed through Hiroshima City the night before, where a new type of atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 6. I arrived at Michinoo Station in the northern part of Nagasaki City at 3:00 a.m. on August 10. I stayed in Nagasaki City for about 12 hours and recorded about 115 photographs, which I developed on August 12 and took back to Tokyo after being advised by my colleague Shihei Hino that the military would destroy them. After the war, on September 9, GHQ imposed strict censorship on the press. After keeping it sealed for about seven years, the peace treaty with Japan came into effect on April 28, 1952, and on August 6, 1952, the atomic bomb photos were published in the August 6 issue of the Asahi Graph.

Since the Edo period (1603-1867), seppuku in Japan was accompanied by a ritual, in which the warrior dressed in white in front of onlookers and had his head cut off by an intercessor if he did not die immediately after the seppuku with a Japanese sword.

From World War II until the Emperor Showa's decree ending the war, some Japanese soldiers chose to commit suicide by seppuku. Since the Edo period, seppuku in Japan was accompanied by detailed rituals. Not only was seppuku performed on the battlefield, it was also performed in front of onlookers. The warrior would take a bath, dress in white, have a last meal or cup of sake, and the Japanese sword and cloth would be placed on separate three sides and handed to the warrior. Placing the Japanese sword in front of him, the samurai wrote a poem of resignation just before his death and wished to commit seppuku (a colorized photographic reproduction of the seppuku scene).
　In Japan, Seppuku was considered to be a final suicide ritual to protect the honor of the samurai. A samurai would choose to end his life by committing seppuku when he failed to protect his lord, when he defiled his lord, or when he caused serious misconduct in the house. The Japanese believed that a samurai with a stain on his life was not worthy of the name of samurai, and that the best way to end his life was to commit seppuku. Seppuku became a way for samurai to atone for their sins, repent, relieve their shame, blaspheme others, and prove their loyalty. Although seppuku was a serious crime, it allowed the warrior to commit seppuku and retain his honor.
　From the Heian to the Edo period, Japanese warriors considered it shameful to be captured or killed by someone else's sword. The first record of this practice was in 988 during the Heian period, when the nobleman Fujiwara Yasusuke was arrested as a bandit and committed suicide by seppuku in prison. Seppuku, also known as harakiri, was a common act of suicide. Seppuku was widely recognized in Japanese society as a means of demonstrating the highest virtues such as loyalty, filial piety, and courage of the samurai. In the era of militarism after the Meiji era, seppuku was glorified as the core of Japan's Yamato spirit. Seppuku was abolished from judicial punishment in 1873; Article 1 of the "Imperial Rescript for Soldiers" issued in 1882 stipulated that soldiers must commit suicide if necessary.
　There are four types of seppuku: single, double, triple, and cross, as well as two limb positions: standing and sitting. The most common form of seppuku began with cutting the belly. If the seppuku resulted in blood loss but not immediate death, the seppuku victim, who did not commit suicide, would stretch his neck and have his neck cut off by an aide. This was done with the cooperation of the intercessor who usually achieved final death by cutting off the head. The core of seppuku is not to die prematurely, but to endure the pain. The complicated procedure leading up to seppuku has a more ritualistic meaning. Before committing seppuku, a samurai usually changes into a white kimono, places his favorite sake and food in front of him, and then performs the entire ritual of seppuku himself. In addition to samurai suicides, women have also been asked to commit seppuku in Japan. Most often, this happens when their husbands die or when they have done something seriously wrong. Many of the knives these women used to commit seppuku were given to them by their own fathers or the groom's father at the time of their marriage.
　The Japanese chose to commit seppuku as an act of patriotic loyalty. On September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji's burial, Japanese army general Kigenori Nogi and his wife Shizuko Nogi both chose to commit seppuku at home to show their loyalty to the emperor. The Japanese people went crazy over this act, calling it a great achievement, and during the Meiji era, they revered Kishinori Nogi as a god of war and a symbol of Bushido. From World War II until the Emperor Showa's decree ending the war, some Japanese soldiers chose to commit suicide by seppuku. It was not until 1968 that the Japanese government officially banned seppuku as a form of bushido; in 1970, Yukio Mishima and others committed seppuku at the Self-Defense Forces garrison in Ichigaya. In Japan's underground underworld, seppuku is still incubated. 

 

 

The bodies of American soldiers killed north of the airfield by Japanese artillery fire during the Battle of Peleliu Island, with his right lower leg blown off at the base.

During the Battle of Peleliu Island, an American soldier was killed by Japanese artillery fire north of the airfield on Peleliu Island. The body of the slain American soldier had his right lower leg blown off at the base.

　In the Pacific War, American troops landed on Peleliu Island in the Palau archipelago in the Western Pacific on September 15, 1944. After fierce Japanese resistance and heavy casualties, American forces were finally able to capture the island on November 27. The attack on Peleliu Island was the deadliest amphibious landing in American military history.

　Peleliu Island had a linkage of caves made of rock, which the Japanese connected with tunnels to serve as fortifications. When the Japanese invaded, they did so from directly above the caves, inflicting maximum damage on the American troops directly below.

　More than 10,000 Japanese troops were stationed on Peleliu Island, a volcanic island six miles long and two miles wide. The island had an airfield and was invaded in an amphibious assault that neutralized this threat. on the morning of September 15, 1944, American forces landed on the southwestern tip of Peleliu Island. On the morning of September 15, 1944, American forces landed on the southwestern tip of Peleliu Island, preceded by raids and bombings by carrier-based aircraft. The landings came in waves, gathering on the island's shores and pushing inland.

　However, it took the Japanese many days to stop the American invasion, resulting in massive casualties. Peleliu Island had many caves and a network of tunnels connecting it, and the Japanese were largely unscathed from the Allied bombardment. The Japanese defended their airstrip on the southwestern part of Peleliu Island for four days.

　As the Americans moved northward and began their invasion, they became the target of a volley of Japanese heavy artillery and rifle fire from a cave dug into the rock face of Umbrugol Mountain, dubbed Bloody Nose Ridge along the way. Over the next eight days, American troops engaged in one of the most harrowing and costly battles of the Pacific War, suffering about 50% casualties.

　Meanwhile, U.S. reinforcements sent in re-attacked Nosebleed Ridge from the west on September 24. Allied forces were able to encircle the Japanese positions on the mountain. The Japanese held out and finally retreated after much bloodshed during October. More American reinforcements arrived, and on November 25, the ridge was finally occupied, and the Japanese refused to surrender, nearly all of them killed.

　The Battle of Peleliu produced the highest casualty rate for amphibious operations in American military history. Of the 28,000 U.S. soldiers who participated in the battle, about 40 percent were killed or wounded, with 1,800 killed in action and 8,000 wounded, for a total of about 9,800 casualties. On the other hand, the U.S. forces achieved their objectives from the capture of Peleliu Island to the recapture of the Philippines and the invasion of the Japanese main islands. 

American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. It's eatimated that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines.

During the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, a Japanese soldier was murdered by American troops and his grisly corpse was scattered in the sandy wilderness southwest of Motoyama No. 2 Airfield. The murdered bodies were lying on their backs with their helmets removed around them, both knees bent and both upper limbs hugged and in rigor mortis. American forces had taken Motoyama No. 2 Airfield by February 27. The Japanese defended themselves on the battlefield of Iwo Jima, which was filled with man-made and natural defenses. They bombarded American troops with artillery during the day, and came up behind them at night, planting mines in their path to block the invasion. The American forces broke through and swept away with massive and overwhelming attacks, flamethrowers, packing explosives, and grenades.

　The Battle of Iwo Jima was the first major battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II. It was an extremely fierce and costly battle for the American forces. During the first five days of the landing, there were about 1,200 casualties each day. As many as one-third of the U.S. troops who landed suffered casualties. On March 26, Iwo Jima was conquered by the Americans after Japanese soldiers were annihilated in a banzai charge against American troops near the beach. Only about 216 Japanese troops survived capture, and all the rest were killed in action.

　The battle of Iwo Jima was more costly for the Americans than for the Japanese, with about 7,000 of the landing force killed and about 19,000 wounded. Details of the casualties of the 36-day battle of Iwo Jima are suggested as follows: Approximately 110,000 American soldiers participated in the battle of Iwo Jima, less than 19% of the total number of Japanese soldiers, about 20,530. The number of American casualties was about 6,821, and the number of Japanese casualties was about 19,900. American casualties were about 21,865, and Japanese casualties were about 1,033. The total number of casualties was approximately 28,686 for the U.S. forces and 20,933 for the Japanese. In total, the American side suffered about 7,753 more casualties than the Japanese side in the Pacific War. The casualty count at Iwo Jima shocked the American people. Giving no time to condemn the bloody and barbaric battle, the invasion of Okinawa began four days after the fall of Iwo Jima. Beyond the battle of Iwo Jima, the entire Japanese archipelago was bombed in a long and bloody war of revenge that engulfed the civilian population in indiscriminate and tragic casualties. 

As the Yanks moved up, they found the Allied battered and weary from years of furtile warfare. Here French poilus carry a corpse post a wounded comrade. French troops after an German attack and bombardment, World War I, 30th June 1915.

In World War I, on June 30, 1915, French troops were attacked and shelled by German troops in the trenches of Massige in northeastern France near the German border. A French soldier was carrying the body of a French soldier who had been killed in the trench, wrapped in cloth. As they advanced through the trenches, they found French soldiers who had fallen, battered and tired and wounded from the barren fighting.

　The French army alone lost nearly 900 men a day between 1914 and 1918, while the Germans lost about 1,300. About 86% of those deaths occurred on the battlefield, and about 14% resulted from disease or captivity. Battlefield casualties who were unable to return home on their own were almost certainly doomed to death due to fatigue, new wounds, and pressure. The wounds were gruesome, with bullets penetrating the chest, stomach, and skull, and one of the wounded had his mandible shattered into a bead of blood. The wounds were coated with iodine to fix the blood. No intravenous fluids or blood transfusions were administered. After the wound was cleaned, a large, ready-made military bandage was applied. There was not enough water to wash their muddy hands.

　Many of the war wounded could only be rescued at night. It took about four days and nights and a great deal of effort to bring back some of the battle wounded who were near the French positions. Most of the soldiers left behind in the trenches were already dead.

　Carrying about 30 kilos of ammunition and food, the soldiers noiselessly climbed the trenches in the first group in the middle of the night. After hours of marching, the trenches stretched for several kilometers and connected. The trenches were riddled with shell holes and the cries of the wounded and the screams of bombs drifted through the air. If you got lost without warning in front of an enemy trench, you had to give up your head, torso, or legs to machine guns.

　In the trenches, the main weapon of the French soldiers was the rifle. The 1.80 meter bayonet with bayonet was very impractical in the narrow trenches of positional warfare. In hand-to-hand combat, the most terrifying ordeal for a soldier, he would shudder in fear when the order to shoot with bayonets rang out. When they reached the trenches, the infantrymen found it extremely difficult to operate the bayonet. Since bayonets could not be used hand-held, the soldiers used trench shovels and iron-wood headbreakers instead. We had to cross the plains where bullets were flying. We approached the enemy and a terrible hand-to-hand battle began. My rifle was no longer useful, so I attacked with my shovel. I staggered and dove into a whirlpool of men I didn't recognize and could no longer hear. My nose and ears were bleeding, I was losing my mind, I could no longer see or think of danger, and I ceased to give my life.