A court in South Korea has ordered Japan to pay compensation to a group of former wartime sex slaves in a ruling that will worsen tensions between the neighbours.The Japanese government reacted
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World War I is becoming one of Americaâs forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about. A few more knowledgeable people may recall General âBlack Jackâ Pershing, its overall U.S. commander or President Woodrow Wilson. But few outside of West Point or the Pentagon would recognize the name of General Peyton C. March. Yet this Easton-born soldier, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1921, was largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the U.S. Army of today.
American flamethrower tanks provided a horrific edge during island fighting in the Pacific.
U.S. portable flamethrowers were first used in combat during the Guadalcanal campaign in January 1943. It quickly became apparent that the exposed flamethrower operator was vulnerable to Japanese small arms fire. So the idea arose to mount the portable flamethrowers in a tank as a means to reach Japanese bunkers without excessive casualties. After some experimentation in New Caledonia in the autumn of 1943, the first combat use of American flamethrower tanks took place in January 1944 on Bougainville in a little-known encounter against an enemy stronghold called the “Hornet’s Nest.”
Dec 28, 2020
Nagoya – Nearly 60 years ago, a largely forgotten, cross-continental peace march brought together two of the greatest tragedies of World War II: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Holocaust.
As detailed in Ran Zwigenberg’s “Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture,” in January 1962, a procession of young student activists, peace activists and Buddhist monks, set off from Hiroshima on a march all the way to Auschwitz, the site of one of the most notorious concentration camps.
Gyotsu Sato, an Imperial Japanese Army veteran and leader of the march, declared his desire to “deepen the connection between these two places of utmost suffering and tragedy in World War II.” Before setting off on their journey, the marchers visited the A-Bomb hospital and met with hibakusha representatives. Then they received 3,000 paper cranes, crafted in honor of the celebrated hibakusha girl Sadako Sasaki, to scatter along the way from Hiroshima