Category: Japanese POWs

• Screams in Silence: The Rape of Nanking and the World’s Indifference

  

  June 10, 2025

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  1930s, Atrocities, Battle of Nanking, China, Chines, Chinese citizens, Chinese Soldiers, event & history, Executed, Executions, Genocide, Historical Photos, history, History Daily, History Daily With Francis Chappell Black, Japan, Japanese Army, Japanese Empire, Japanese Soldiers, mass murder, military, military-history, Missionary, people, photographer, photographs, photography, photos, Rape & Murder, Rape of Nanking, Rape of Nanking 1937, Sino-Japanese War, soldiers, war, War Crimes, War Crimes Trial

• The Largest POW Escape of World War II: The Cowra Breakout. August 5, 1944.

  

  Image: Cowra POW Camp, 1 July 1944. Japanese POWs practising baseball near their quarters several weeks before the Cowra Breakout. The photograph was taken for the Allied Far Eastern Liaison Office, with the intention of using it in propaganda leaflets to be dropped over Japanese-held islands and Japan itself. More than 1,000 Japanese men were…

  August 5, 2024

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