Posted on 03/07/2015 4:59:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Mercy killings are forbidden for a number of reasons. One being it isn’t the role of untrained soldiers to make medical decisions as to which type wound is, or is not recoverable.
Yes.
the summary of the article is bombardment has a role, it is not a magic bullet.
Agreed. It will be interesting once the war is over to learn if something similar was the case at Dunkirk. I got a sense that the Wehrmacht didn't have much of a role at Dunkirk... that it was for some reason a Luftwaffe show.
Re the mercey killing case, the article implies the person was pinned in he wreckage, not that he was actually dying of wounds. To me it is more likely he was being saved from being painfully burned to death and there was no way to extract him from the wreckage.
I think it is interesting the the Lt. Col. name is not listed and only the defense ttorney name is included.
5th Marine Division Daily summaries
http://www.recordsofwar.com/iwo/Div/aa500307.txt
SECRET 7 MAR 45
FROM: 5TH MAR DIV
TO : VAC INFO: EXTROPAC X 3D AND 4TH MAR DIVS
DISPATCH SUMMARY FOR THE PERIOD 061700 TO 071700 FOLLOWS X THE NIGHT WAS
RELATIVELY QUIET ALONG THE ENTIRE DIVISION FRONT X LIMITED QUANTITIES OF
GRENADES AND SMALL ARMS FIRE WERE USED BY SMALL PARTIES OF JAPS IN FRONT
OF OUR LINES X A TOTAL OF 7 JAPS WERE KILLED DURING THE NIGHT X OUR KING
HOUR ATTACK MET WITH CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS X CT 28 ADVANCED RAPIDLY BY-
PASSING MANY CAVES IN THE VICINITY OF 233M Q R X MOP-UP OF THESE CAVES IS
UNDERWAY X
THE ADVANCE ON THIS AREA WAS MADE ACROSS THE MOST DIFFICULT TYPE OF
ROCKY GORGES BORDERED BY PRECIPITOUS CLIFFS X HILL 215 IS NOW SOLIDLY
WITHIN OUR
LIMITS X IN FRONT OF CT 26 FOLLOWING A LIMITED OBJECTIVE NIGHT ATK THE
OPPOSITION WAS PROVIDED BY SMALL GROUPS OF ENEMY IMPLACED IN ROCKY
CRAGS AND CREVICES
FROM WHICH ALL TYPES OF INFANTRY WEAPONS WERE BROUGHT TO BEAR X THE
JAPS STILL APPEAR TO HAVE PLENTY OF MEN AND LIGHT WEAPONS BUT THE
QUALITY OF DEFENSIVE
ORGANIZATION BEING ENCOUNTERED REFLECTS the EFFECT OF CASUALTIES AND
CONTINUAL POUNDING FROM OUR WEAPONS X A LARGE AMMO DUMP WAS
DESTROYED IN 234X
AT 1100 X CT 27 ON THE RIGHT IS BUTTING INTO ONE OF THE STRONGEST REMAINING
POSITIONS O THE ISLAND X BUNKERS ARE BEING BY-PASSED FOR FUTURE
DESTRUCTION
WHILE GRENADE BATTLES ARE BEING FOUGHT UP A SERIES OF ROCKY LEDGES X THE
SHORE LINE ON THE NORTHEAST COAST IS WITHIN SIGHT OF LT 2/27 X TANKS
WERE UNABLE TO GIVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF SUPPORT BECAUSE OF the
NATURE OF THE TERRAIN THERE ARE 37 TANKS OPERATIONAL OF WHICH 3 ARE
FLAME THROWERS X
VMO-5 MAINTAINED TWO PLANES ON STATION AS LONG AS WEATHER PERMITTED
THROUGHOUT THE DAY X ARTY OBSERVERS ALOFT BROUGHT THE ARTY TO BEAR ON
TARGETS OF
OPPORTUNITY X IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE EXACT NUMBER OF
WEAPONS DESTROYED BY AERIAL PRECISION ADJUSTMENT X HOWEVER ONE MORTAR
WAS DEFINITELY
TROYED AT 1245 IN TA 235H WEST X DIRECT HITS WERE MADE ON AND IN
OPENINGS OF CAVES X AS OF 1700 OUR FRONT LINES WERE AT 233I WEST TO 233O
SOUTH
WEST TO 234P CENTER TO 234Q CENTER TO 234M SOUTHWEST TO 234S NORTHEAST TO
234T CENTER TO 234P SOUTH CENTER TO 235Q CENTER TO 235W NORTH CENTER TO
235X
NORTH CENTER TO 235T SOUTHWEST X OUR CASUALTIES TO DATE AS OF 1500 X KIA
60 OFF 1000 ENL X WIA
185 OFF 3891 ENL MIA 1 OFF 189 ENL X SK 10 OFF 375 ENL X TOTAL 256 OFF 5455 ENL X
INTERRED IN DIV CEMETERY 32 OFF 1033 ENL 15 UNIDENTIFIED X
TO BE INTERRED 55 X ENEMY CASUALTIES 6489 POW 26 X CASUALTY EVACUATION TO
VAC EVACUATION HOSPITAL X 30 AIR EVACUATION DURING LAST 24 HOURS X 1920
RDS 75MM HE AND 5242 105MM HE RECEIVED DURING LAST 24 HOURS X AT 1500
FOLLOWING NUMBER OF RDS OF HE AMMO ON ARTY POSITIONS X 1ST BN 6185 RDS
75MM
2D BN 2400 RDS 105MM X 3RD BN 2706 RDS 105MM X 4TH BN 2306 RDS 105MM X 24
DISTILLATION UNITS IN OPERATION X 26030 GALS WATER PRODUCED DURING LAST
24 HOURS X 40,000 GALS WATER IN DIV DUMP X SLIGHTLY OVER 2 UNITS OF FIRE
81MM HE WITHIN DIV X LVTA’S 27 SERVICEABLE 8 LOST OR DESTROYED X LVT’S
124 SERVICEABLE 8 UNDER REPAIR 61 LOST OR DESTROYED X DUKW’S 29
SERVICEABLE 7 UNDER REPAIR 64 LOST OR DESTROYED X WEASELS 9 SERVICEABLE 1
UNDER REPAIR
8 LOST OR DESTROYED X NO CHANGE IN LOCATION OF COMMAND POSTS X
RAY A. ROBINSON,
COLONEL, USMC
And for that reason, the officer was aquitted. somewhat analagous to a self-defense situation. If you use deadly force to defend yourself, be prepared to face a trial.
I presume the verdict was likely due to the presiding officers agreeing who would vote in which way so as to create a lasting impression that the defendant would have been executed, or sent away for a long time had it not been for some obscure technicality that resulted in one officer voting for his acquittal. That's my guess.
Yes but did the evidence support such scenario? That is why we have trials.
WEASELS 9 SERVICEABLE 1
UNDER REPAIR
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I don’t know. I was specualting based on the description and verdict.
I have spent the last hour looking for more information on the case with no avail.
I may be confused about the time, but if I’m not mistaken, the planned 300 plane B-29 raid is scheduled to be at night.
Homer included some extremely interesting articles today, but in reading through this thread the most interesting to me was seeing your post. Welcome back.
Anybody heard from Der Furhuer lately?
No confusion at all. Nimitz says they will take off on the 9th to bomb Tokyo at 0330 on the 10th.
Interesting that the AF wants to bomb at night when air defenses have been so weak. Brass must be confident in the navigational systems and that targeting radar we've been hearing about. I'm still a little puzzled though.
At least bomb hits and resulting fires should be easy to observe.
He’s not long for the world.
I’ve been especially interested by the reports on Iwo. My Uncle was one on the first Marines who landed. I spent a good amount of time with him as a kid. More than any other WW2 vet. I always asked him about the war... He told be very little. Just enough, to make me understand why he didn’t want to talk about it.
Did anything ever come out of post Cold war Russian archives giving an accurate count of Soviet casualties in taking Berlin?
Western documentary producers and authors seem to be in continual competition for who can with a straight face claim the highest casualty figures.
I guarantee if the Western Allies took Berlin, the fight would have been over quickly.
Germans had no choice but to try to fight the Russians because they knew what Russian occupation would mean.
I take it Bonomi didn’t quit?
IIRC, in the final weeks Hitler only emerged from his bunker once.
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