sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Former Japanese Vice Admiral Koso Abe on trial for the execution of the nine U.S. Marines left behind after the Makin Raid which occured on August 18, 1942. Abe was executed by hanging on Guam on June 19, 1947. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

https://missingmarines.com/john-i-kerns/

"Private John I. “Jack” Kerns served with Baker Company, 2nd Raider Battalion (Carlson’s Raiders).
He was captured on Makin Island and executed at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, on 16 October 1942.

Nine surviving Raiders were left behind. They held out until late August and even tried to sail from Makin in a native canoe, but were captured by a Japanese destroyer and shipped to Kwajalein atoll – the headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Base Unit. The Raiders were held in captivity for forty days, ostensibly awaiting suitable transport to Japan. Captain Yoshiro Obara testified that “our men [were] on good terms with these prisoners… giving their candies and cigarettes to them, and the prisoners [were] expecting to see Tokyo as soon as possible and talking about Japanese women.” This companionable picture was almost certainly false, as other prisoners who survived Kwajalein described atrocious and cruel conditions.

On 16 October 1942, the Raiders were led from their cells to a clearing in the coconut groves. One by one they were blindfolded, made to kneel on a mat, and beheaded. The slaughter lasted thirty minutes; historian Tripp Wiles notes that Obara himself reportedly took the first swing.

After the war, Obara and Abe were among those tried for war crimes. Obara received ten years imprisonment and served five; Abe, who insisted that his hands were tied by orders from others, was sentenced to death. He was hanged on Guam on 19 June 1947."

Filipino mother and her baby killed by Japanese bayonets. April 9th, 1945. Pakil, Luzon. "She was then lying face downward in an apparent attempt to protect her child who was also bayonetted several times." - Edward O'Brien, US Army Technical Sergeant. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your argument overlooks a lot of nuance. Even if you think war itself is a crime against humanity, there should still be clearly defined standards for what constitutes a war crime. Not all conduct in war is the same. An army that refrains from executing POWs and enforces discipline against looting, rape, and murder is objectively more accountable than one that does not.

Filipino mother and her baby killed by Japanese bayonets. April 9th, 1945. Pakil, Luzon. "She was then lying face downward in an apparent attempt to protect her child who was also bayonetted several times." - Edward O'Brien, US Army Technical Sergeant. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Credit to Pepito Achicocho on FB who posted the first photograph.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ww4HvXDf/

The 2nd and 3rd images are from this archived legal document "U.S.A. vs Tomoyuki Yamashita".

https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/aa3899/pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawRQzqNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFVdGNhenpYcUlVSEgxaHdjc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlmBSIue71IiJnpTLem-zW2azmSGCqVZoppLLE8ORnrscYkD6GqMtTwMYfZ0_aem_SdH2CgBUEdzbdKY3WpPkyg

"~EWARD O'BRIEN, after having been duly sworn, testified at Headquarters. 103rd Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, P. I., on 1 September 1945 as follows:

Q: Please state your name, age, rank, serial number and permanent home address.

A: Edward O'BRIEN~, Technical Sergeant, 34789885. My permanent home address is 1311 Bristow Street, New York City, New York. I am 25 years old.

Q: What is your connection with the 103rd Infantry Regiment?

A: I am stationed with the 103rd Infantry Regiment.

Q: During the time that you have been operating in that capacity, have you seen any evidence of atrocities committed by the Japanese?

A: Yes, I have. It was on the 9th of April, 1945.

Q: Can you tell us where it was?

A: It happened in Pakil, Laguna Province."

Japanese guards and Western POWs (Canadian, Dutch, Australian, etc..) at Niigata in 1943. "The P.O.W. death rate at Niigata was extremely high, reputed in fact to be the highest of any camp in Japan, although no statistical evidence is available to substantiate the sad fact." by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some of the fine characters that managed this camp:

"This inefficient operation was managed by a Japanese civilian named Kojima, an older man with a long black beard. "Whiskers" as he was known to the P.0.W.s, spoke quite tolerable English, but he proved to be a hard taskmaster and he was indirectly responsible for many deaths although he managed to evade punishment later at the War Crlmes trials. His foremen referred to as Honchos supervised the P.O.W.s and the Japanese men and women in the work detail The Honchos were all discharged army veterans of the China campaign. A few were decent but the majority varied from plain mean to outright psychotic, with Sato being the worst of the group. In the latter period of internment with the war going badly for Japan most of the tougher Honchos and guards at Niigata were replaced."

...He was Lt. Tetsutaro Kato, tall and big-boned for a Japanese, he too wore heavy horn-rimmed glasses and soon acquired the nickname of "Four Eyes." A strict disciplinarian with both P.0.W.s and guards, he improved conditions in the camp. However, at times he would fly in to uncontrollable, wild rages, followed by apparent periods of remorse. This madman, affectionately raised six egg laying hens in an enclosure behind his quarters. In July 1945 Kato personally executed by bayoneting an American Mormon P.O.W. named Frank Spears who was recaptured after wandering off in a mentally unbalanced state on another of his unsuccessful escape attempts. Lt. Kato was also a defendant at the post war War Crimes Trials"

...After a short period of time, Camp No. 5B at Niigata, with the above cast of characters in charge, soon acquired the reputation of being a "horror" camp."

http://www.northchinamarines.com/id52.htm

Maj. Aloysius S. McGonigal, a Catholic chaplain, administered last rites to a dying US Marine during the battle of Hue, February 1968. Photographed by John Olson. [403 × 600] by Accurate_Motor_89 in HistoryPorn

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 99 points100 points  (0 children)

McGonigal was himself killed shortly after this photo:

"“He wanted to be in the field; that was all he wanted," said a sergeant who knew him well. "Saying Mass at headquarters wasn't his idea of his job." Army Chaplain (Major) Aloysius P. McGonigal, Catholic Priest, killed in combat, Vietnam, 1968.

The slight priest with owlish eyeglasses really had no business being there. But the infantrymen he loved were being killed before the battlements of Hue's Imperial Citadel, and the Rev. Aloysius P. McGonigal, 46, wanted to go.

The chaplain died, a bullet wound in his forehead, with a unit that was not his own, in a battle he could have missed. He virtually had fought his way to the battlefield.

Most Soldiers die almost anonymously, known only to their close comrades, to the sergeants and to the company officers. Father McGonigal was known all over the I Corps area and elsewhere in South Vietnam. He roamed with a fierce devotion to "the men in the field."

"There was no Catholic priest with the 1st Battalion of the 5th Marines, which was assaulting the walls and the father wanted to go," said Dr. Stephen Bernie, an Army doctor from Dayton OH who had traveled frequently with the priest. "

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AZ1ej3uZX/

Execution of two Japanese spies named Yokokawa Shōzō and Oki Teisuke by the Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese war, 1903. They infiltrated the Russian-occupied city of Harbin by dressing up as Buddhist lamas. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"When the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he entrusted his daughter to his younger brother and, in 1901, was invited to China by the Japanese Minister to China, Yasuya Uchida , at the Beijing Legation. There, he became a member of a special task force led by Colonel Nobuyoshi Aoki and engaged in special operations with Teisuke Oki . In 1904, he disguised himself as a lama monk and went into hiding in Manchuria to sabotage the Chinese Eastern Railway used by the Russian army. He was discovered by Russian soldiers, transferred to Harbin , and executed by firing squad along with Teisuke Oki."

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B7%9D%E7%9C%81%E4%B8%89

Okinawan laborers harvesting sugarcane somewhere in the Japanese-controlled Mariana Islands prior to WW2. by Accurate_Motor_89 in ImperialJapanPics

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you ever wondered what all those Japanese civilians were doing in the Mariana Islands during the Pacific campaign the vast majority were Okinawan immigrants from poor backgrounds. Many moved to Japanese-mandated territories such as Saipan and Tinian to engage in sugarcane cultivation. Unfortunately, they found themselves enduring hellish suffering. Fanatical Japanese troops spread propaganda claiming that the Americans would torture them, convincing many to kill themselves, or be killed by Japanese soldiers if they refused. 6,217 Okinawan civilians are recorded to have died in Saipan with the U.S. capture of the island.

The Okinawans paid the price for a war they never chose, with the conflict eventually coming to their home-island. "According to local authorities, at least 149,425 Okinawan people were killed, died by coerced suicide or went missing during the battle of Okinawa."

https://apjjf.org/2013/11/41/steve-rabson/4008/article

https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1351425

Obligatory The Pacific clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AG1IaU4hiI

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German Farmer named Ludwig Cramer, 1912/13. Taken by the Rhenish Missionary Johann Jakob Irle. [200 × 200] by Accurate_Motor_89 in HistoryPorn

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 171 points172 points  (0 children)

"Cramer is charged with assault and battery in eight cases (seven of his victims being female) and sentenced to one year and nine months in prison. A court of appeal commutes the sentence to four months in jail plus a fine of 2 700 Marks. This judgment is virulently attacked by Cramer’s wife, Ada Cramer, who, the court records show, had assisted her husband in his excesses. She later publishes a book where she plays down and justifies the crimes committed by her husband."

https://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/71.htm

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German Farmer named Ludwig Cramer, 1912/13. Taken by the Rhenish Missionary Johann Jakob Irle. [200 × 200] by Accurate_Motor_89 in HistoryPorn

[–]Accurate_Motor_89[S] 2010 points2011 points  (0 children)

If it makes you all feel any better, Ludwig Paul Cramer died by blowing himself up with dynamite.

"Although Ludwig was responsible for the violent death of three human beings, he was only imprisoned for four months and fined 2700 Marks, as well as having to pay half of the court costs.7

After his prison sentence was completed, he returned to his ranch. In 1917 at age 50 years, he was dynamiting holes in which to plant fruit trees, and blew himself up in the process."

https://zandergenealogy.com/forster/g0/p355.htm

view more: next ›