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An American seaman looks at the charred corpse of a Japanese flier brought up from the bottom of Pearl Harbour, where he crashed with his burning plane during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941 in Hawai. AP Photo I've gone and tagged it NSFW as the remnants of the pilots face are.gruesome to say the least. No matter how little sympathy you have for the pilot, think this photo is one that drives home how ugly war is, since.so often photos, especially pre-Vietnam, simply avoid the uglier side of war. It wasn't until late 1943 that pictures of dead Americans even for published in the US, and it was a very clean, somber picture, not one that showed the terrible injuries and mutilations many others suffered in their dying (of course this can contrast with the picture Life Magazine later ran of a womancontemplating the.Japanese skull her boyfriend sent her from the Pacific...). War is brutal and ugly to the extreme, and this photo is only.a small slice of that. Blindly glorifyin

Captured Soviet female soldie, 1941 There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war, which is roughly 5 percent of total military personnel. The number of women in the Soviet military in 1943 was 348,309, 473,040 in 1944, and then 463,503 in 1945. the medical personnel in the Red Army, 40% of paramedics, 43% of surgeons, 46% of doctors, 57% of medical assistants, and 100% of nurses were women. 4 Nearly 200,000 were decorated and 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Union's highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, among which some served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles. From wiki Also from wiki No commander had the right to retreat without an order. Anyone who did so was subject to a military tribunal of the corresponding seniority level. Order No. 227 established that each front must create one to three penal battalions (Russian: wTpaoHoŭ 6aranbOH, romanized: shtrafnoy batalyo

The Nanjing Massacre: Scenes from a Hideous Slaughter 75 Years Ago A Japanese headsman tells a Chinese prisoner how to hold his head for a smooth decapitation in a photo dated from 1938 . 75 years ago, on Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of the Chinese republic led by Chiang Kai-shek and went on a six-week campaign of carnage and slaughter that would be forever remembered as the “Rape of Nanjing.” Reports document widespread rape and the indiscriminate killing of civilians; some death tolls estimate over a quarter of a million people were killed. The incident, though, still rankles Sino-Japanese relations. Japanese nationalists contend that the death tolls are inflated and the majority killed were resisting Japanese occupation. To this day, pages in Japanese school history textbooks can incite heated protests on the streets in China. Then and now, the Nanjing massacre remains one of the darkest events of the last century.—Ishaan Tharoor Here

Brutal execution caught on CCTV as victim chased into building, jumps out of window then shot 20 times Horrific footage shows the victim, named only as Wajid, 45, running into his home in Delhi, India, as three men on motorbikes chase him inside. He is then seen falling from a top floor window and onto the ground, where his killers are waiting for him. A fourth man in a white shirt wearing a helmet is outside and fires his gun... see mo The other three men reappear and pull out their guns, shooting the victim repeatedly, although Mirror Online has decided to edit the footage. A fourth man in a white shirt wearing a helmet is outside and fires his gun. The other three men reappear and pull out their guns, shooting the victim repeatedly, although Mirror Online has decided to edit the footage. A fourth man in a white shirt wearing a helmet is outside and fires his gun. The other three men reappear and pull out their guns, shooting the victim repeatedly, although Mirror Online has decided

Babies for sale. Italy, 1940 Unwanted babies for sale in France during World War II, 1940 This wasn’t this particular group’s first such outlandish claim. In late February 2019, the page shared a widely-reposted image purportedly showing wives engaged in a “Christmas tradition” of begging their husbands for general forgiveness.  Earlier versions of the photograph suggested it actually showed women inviting men to a dance, bucking the tradition of the time.. At least some people found it plausible that the French simply dangled their babies cruelly from burlap sacks and left them “a vendre” in war-torn France, but an initial search indicated that a different historical “fun facts” Twitter account received a response about what was presumably an identical claim back in 2014: The tweet to which the user was responding appeared to be no longer accessible. But myriad references for “a vendre” or “baby for sale” postcards were live on the internet, suggesting that the images were a meme unto

The Beast of Jersey - Edward Paisnel Edward Paisnel was a notorious sex offender who terrorised the Channel Island of Jersey from 1957 to 1971. He entered homes at night dressed in a rubber mask and nail-studded wristlets, attacking women and children.  Between 1957 and 1971, Paisnel stalked and raped more than 13 people living on the remote isle of Jersey, which is part of the Channel Islands between England and France... Read story  By day, he was a construction worker who lived with his wife, Joan, and her children - a seemly average man. He would even play Santa for the children at Christmas. But by night he was planning and carrying out his brutal assaults as well as taunting the police.  On 17 July 1971 Paisnel was stopped by the police after running a red traffic light and then attempting to evade police pursuit. In the car, which he had stolen earlier that evening, were discovered several pointed sticks and elements of his "Beast" costume. In December 1971 he was conv

On this day in 1659, a dreadful event took place on "Dumfries Whitesands. Nine women, having been found guilty of witchcraft, were taken to what was known as the "ordinary place" of execution. There, they met a truly horrific end. After being wirried (strangled) in front of a gathered crowd, their lifeless bodies were set ablaze and burnt at the stake.... Read story  So what led to this? Through our research, we discovered that Janet McNaught, one of the accused, was seen at a witches' meeting - the witness apparently committed suicide. Back then, even everyday behaviours, such as sitting in a group by the fire, could be viewed as conspiratorial. Another, Jean Thomson, was said to have a familiar in the form of a hare, who followed people after arguments... For us, it is hard to believe such accusations led to the inhumanity meted out in Dumfries that day. Although we cannot change history, and recognise they were very different times with different belief systems to

The Kanto Massacre Also known as the Kanto Earthquake Massacre, was a disturbing event that occurred on September 1, 1923, in the Kanto region of Japan. The disaster was caused by a massive earthquake that struck the region, followed by a series of fires that destroyed much of the area. However, what made the Kanto Massacre particularly devastating was the violence that erupted in the aftermath of the disaster. The earthquake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale, struck at 11:58 am on September 1,   epicenter was located in Sagami Bay, about 50 p south of Tokyo. The earthquake caused widespread damage, with buildings collapsing and fires breaking out across the region.... Read  The fires were particularly devastating, as they quickly spread through the wooden buildings that made up much of the area. In the aftermath of the disaster, chaos and violence erupted in the streets. Many Japanese citizens blamed foreigners, particularly Koreans, for the disaster and the ensuing chaos. This

Shot at Dawn - The disturbing history of cowardice.  Being shot for cowardice is a punishment that has been used in various military conflicts throughout history. It is a severe punishment that is reserved for soldiers who are deemed to have shown cowardice in the face of the enemy. The punishment involves being executed by firing squad, and it is intended to serve as a deterrent to other soldiers who might be tempted to flee from battle. The practice of shooting soldiers for cowardice has been a controversial topic throughout history. Some argue that it is a necessary punishment to maintain discipline and order in the military, while others argue that it is a cruel and inhumane punishment that is often applied unfairly. Being shot for cowardice is a punishment that has been used in various military conflicts throughout history. It is a severe punishment that is reserved for soldiers who are deemed to have shown cowardice in the face of the enemy. One of the most famous cases of a sold

The Bloody Benders Were a family of serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1873. The family consisted of John Bender; his wife, Elvira Bender; son, John, Jr.; and daughter, Kate. The family would sit guests at the head of a table in front of a larger curtain. Once settled a family member would emerge from behind the curtain and kill the unsuspecting guest with a hammer. The body would then drop through a trap door to the basement....  It is believed they murdered at least 12 travellers. In October 1870, five families of spiritualists homesteaded in and around the township of Osage in northwestern Labette County, approximately 7 mi (11 km) northeast of where Cherryvale was established seven months later. One of the families was John Bender Sr. and John Bender Jr., who registered 160 acres (65 ha) of land located adjacent to the Great Osage Trail, which was then the only open road for traveling farther west. After a cabin, a barn with a corral, and a

Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror Chilling photos of German soldiers having a roaring time in Nazi-occupied Norway months before they murdered hundreds of local Jews have been discovered. The pictures show members of Hitler’s Wehrmacht enjoying picnics in a sunny meadow and sipping tea and eating biscuits at a tranquil garden party. Other black and white images depict four uniformed troops indulging in drinking games in a bar, with one wielding a wooden mallet as if to strike his comrade with it as a joke. More pictures from the album, that has come to light from a British collector, show soldiers posing with bemused Laplanders in northern Norway.... Read more  While the pictures appear to depict the Germans as an agreeable occupying force and a ‘nice bunch of chaps’, they were taken four months before the Holocaust in Norway. From November 1942 the Nazis began rounding up the Jewish population, w