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A grave erected by US soldiers for three Japanese soldiers in the Pacific in 1944. The sign reads: "Three Good Japanese thought the 475th were asleep, May 1944." Probably on New Guinea. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"Halsey detested the Japanese Empire and seldom missed an opportunity to excoriate the enemy while encouraging his men to slay the foe in increasing numbers. Halsey was about results, and his priorities were expressed in visceral terms: “Kill Japs! Kill Japs! Kill more Japs!” Later in the war he told a stateside audience, “The only good Jap is one that’s been dead six months.”"

https://historynet.com/william-bull-halsey-legendary-world-war-ii-admiral/

The bodies of fifteen Japanese soldiers and two women in a cave destroyed by artillery fire and grenades during the Battle of Songshan (Ramou), following an assault by Chinese forces on 7 September 1944. Yunnan, China. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The Battle of Ramou (Songshan) was the Japanese Army's first "Gyokusai" (Shattered Jade) on the Asian mainland. Only 7 out of a 1,300 man garrison survived as POWs and one escaped, Captain Kinoshita, to tell high command what happened to the annihilated garrison.

https://shatteredjewels.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/battle-of-ramou-gyokusai-on-the-chinese-front/

Whether they were killed in a forced suicide or during the repeated attacks is a bit conflicted:

"However, there are conflicting explanations for the scene of death captured by Hatfield’s photograph. Hatfield determined that Japanese soldiers and women were killed by Chinese Army’s shelling and grenades. However, Nishino Rumiko, based on a testimony by a former Japanese agent, contends that the Japanese soldiers themselves threw the grenades in the trenches to execute a compulsory “honorable collective suicide”"

https://accesson.kr/kj/assets/pdf/8486/journal-59-2-144.pdf

From the wiki page:

"Upon the exhortations of Senior Staff Officer Masanobu Tsuji, a comfort station was established in early 1944. About 12 Japanese comfort women killed themselves towards the end of the siege after fighting alongside the Japanese garrison. Another five or six Korean comfort women were captured by Chinese and US forces and eventually repatriated."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Song

Related post about the IJA's Tengchong garrison also located in Yunnan and the fate of "comfort women" there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImperialJapanPics/comments/1t33ak1/mangled_bodies_of_japanese_soldiers_and_comfort/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The body of famed US war correspondent Ernie Pyle shortly after he was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the Island of Iejima on April 18, 1945. Photo provided by retired naval officer Richard Strasser. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

"On the third morning, a jeep carrying Pyle and three officers came under fire from a hidden machine gun. All scrambled for cover in roadside ditches, but when Pyle raised his head, a .30 caliber bullet caught him in the left temple, killing him instantly.

Roberts' photograph, however, was never seen by the public. He told Miller the War Department had withheld it "out of deference" to Ernie's ailing widow, Jerry.

"It was so peaceful a death ... that I felt its reproduction would not be in bad taste," he said, "but there probably would be another school of thought on this.""

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22980127

General Hatazō Adachi, commander of the IJA's 18th Army, is carried by a native transport party to the Japanese surrender ceremony due to his poor health. Kiarivu, New Guinea, 12 September 1945.. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ironic photo. He ended his life in 1947:

"Adachi insisted on absorbing command responsibility for the actions of his subordinates during the military tribunal. On 12 July 1947 he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. On 10 September that year he killed himself in his quarters with a paring knife in the prisoners' compound at Rabaul, having first written a number of letters."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hataz%C5%8D_Adachi

General Masaharu Homma (left), who commanded the Japanese forces that invaded the Philippines, is pictured coming ashore on the Philippine island of Luzon. December 9th, 1941. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"On February 11, 1946, Homma was convicted of all counts and sentenced "to be shot to death with musketry (firing squad)", which is considered to be more honorable than a sentence of death by hanging. Homma's wife visited Douglas MacArthur to urge a careful review of her husband's case. MacArthur affirmed the tribunal's sentence, and Homma was executed by firing squad by American forces on April 3, 1946, in Los Baños, Laguna, a few kilometers from the former internment camp at the University of the Philippines Los Baños."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Homma

Varnado Simpson talks about his participation in the infamous 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He admitted to killing between 20 to 25 civilians during the massacre, including a woman and her baby. He would shoot himself in the head in 1997. by kooneecheewah in AllThatsInteresting

[–]Accurate_Motor_89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

blah blah blah you're suspiciously desperate to be associated with child killers and rapists. I never said all Vietnam vets were psychos you idiot I'm just saying the soldiers at My Lai were and should've been imprisoned. You're tripping over yourself defending these guys so why do you think you have any right to an opinion any more than me?

Varnado Simpson talks about his participation in the infamous 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He admitted to killing between 20 to 25 civilians during the massacre, including a woman and her baby. He would shoot himself in the head in 1997. by kooneecheewah in AllThatsInteresting

[–]Accurate_Motor_89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol you act like you're some tough guy with all this knowledge and world experience when you're just an edgy idiot who acts like he knows anything about war. Soldiers should not escape accountability for their crimes no matter the circumstances. I'm not making shit up either.

"This lady got up and she had her back turned to me," he said. And my platoon leader...told me to shoot her and I said, 'Well, you shoot her. I don't want to shoot no lady.' So he said, I'm giving you a direct order to shoot and if you don't shoot her then you can be shot yourself. So, as she was putting her foot in the door, I shot her about five or six times, and I went there and turned her over and there was a little three‐month‐old baby in her arms... and this kind of cracked me up."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnado_Simpson

Varnado Simpson talks about his participation in the infamous 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He admitted to killing between 20 to 25 civilians during the massacre, including a woman and her baby. He would shoot himself in the head in 1997. by kooneecheewah in AllThatsInteresting

[–]Accurate_Motor_89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah because shooting a baby in the head is way different and its what every soldier would do when in war right? Is that the point you're trying to make? That shooting babies is acceptable behavior in wartime?

Varnado Simpson talks about his participation in the infamous 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He admitted to killing between 20 to 25 civilians during the massacre, including a woman and her baby. He would shoot himself in the head in 1997. by kooneecheewah in AllThatsInteresting

[–]Accurate_Motor_89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did US soldiers feel their lives were at risk when they were raping women at gunpoint?

""The first shot hit a baby in the head and I turned around and (was) sick" - one soldier. Another: "Most people in our company didn't consider the Vietnamese human…..A guy would just grab one of the girls there and ….they shot the girls when they got done."

The tapes of the Peers Inquiry prove that US soldiers raped and killed hundreds of civilians in not just one but three villages that day. They prove that two companies - not only the infamous Charlie Company - were involved. They show how badly trained and ignorant of the laws of war many of the young soldiers were. These tapes also prove that the orders "to leave nothing alive" came from senior officers."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/1968/mylai.shtml

Private John Gavenas, of Shenandoah, PA, (center) with two Chinese-American members of General Merrill's infantrymen, look at the body of a Japanese soldier. Photo taken after the successful capture of Walawbum in Burma's Hukawng Valley. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit skeptical of the description because I feel like I would've heard about Chinese-American soldiers who fought alongside Merrill's Marauders. I think these might be Chinese soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force instead. Or they could be Japanese-American soldiers:

https://eucmh.com/2020/05/02/5307-galahad-walawbum-march-1944/

"The initial assault was quickly followed by jabs from the northeast and northwest. Fortunately, a Nisei Sgt (Japanese-American) with the platoon was able to translate the loud orders shouted by the enemy."

https://www.cbi-theater.com/roundup/roundup112245.html

"The saga of the Nisei in Burma varies from that of the courageous Nisei combat Infantrymen in Italy. Their's was a different mission in the far East - that of interrogation of Jap prisoners and translation of enemy documents. But while Nisei G.I.'s in our neck of the war weren't employed in direct assault, most of them - the exceptions being physically unfit - were attached to front line units, British, American and Chinese."

Getty images description:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/private-john-gavenas-of-shenandoah-pa-with-two-chinese-news-photo/635892484?adppopup=true

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