Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
Looking forward to the headlines in tomorrow’s paper. I am not looking forward to all the war reports/newsarticles ending, however.
Air gunner lost on 108th mission.
What happens to the b-29 crews, these need to be read!:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/visitors/moskow/face.html
Capture of a B-29 crewman by the Japanese was the worst of fates. … For those who came back [from combat missions] there was a cleaning shower and a clean bunk to purge their weariness. But for those who did not there were many possibilities, all of them brutal and tragic.
- Kevin Herbert
Maximum Effort
other stories:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950604&slug=2124561
“It’s because the prisoners thought that we were doctors, since they could see the white smocks, that they didn’t struggle. They never dreamed they would be dissected.”
The prisoners were eight American airmen, knocked out of the sky over southern Japan during the waning months of World War II, and then torn apart organ by organ while they were still alive.
What occurred here 50 years ago this year, at the anatomy department of Kyushu University has been largely forgotten in Japan and is virtually unknown in the United States. American prisoners of war were subjected to horrific medical experiments. All of the prisoners died. Most of the physicians and assistants then did their best to hide what they had done.
http://b-29.org/313BW/6thbg/gore/peterson.html
http://darkandbizaarestories.blogspot.com/2012/01/downed-b29-crewmen.html
http://b-29.org/73BW/499BG/hap/jan27/jan27.html
But to be fair, I did find some acts of individual kindness by the Japanese but they were rare.