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Pictures emerge showing Japanese troops using Sikh POWs as practice targets. Some pictures have emerged that show Japanese troops using Sikh POWs as target practice in WW2. Some photos have emerged showing the barbaric treatment that POWs received at the hands of Japanese troops in World War II. The Sun has published some pictures that show the horrific moment Japanese troops used British prisoners of war for target practice. This set of pictures was found among Japanese records when British troops entered Singapore in 1945 and returned to colonial rule. Thousands of British and Commonwealth servicemen died from starvation, work, torture or disease in Japan’s prisoner of war camps during WWII. The photos reveal the full scale of torture and atrocities inflicted on the helpless prisoners. In the first photo of the set, blindfolded prisoners of the Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army are given a degrading target mark so that their captors can practice their shooting skills. Stakes p...

UK woman could face being hanged to death for STABBING her ‘abusive’ husband to death SAMANTHA Jones could be sentenced to be hanged if she is found guilty under Malaysian law of murdering her husband in their retirement home. Mrs Jones wore an orange prison suits when she appeared in court , charged with murdering her husband John, 63, on Tuesday October 30. The former insurance clerk from Somerset has been charged of murdering her husband, a former chief fire officer, between 1am and 3am on October 18. The killing happened at their home, which overlooks paddy fields in the quiet village of Langkawi in Malaysia. A police officer found a blood-drenched 12 inches knife in the bedroom of the bungalow they shared. Although murder normally carries a sentence of death by hanging in Malaysia, her claim of self defence from her alleged abusive husband could lead to her just needing to carry out a prison term. The 61-year-old has spent the last two weeks in police cell in the village and has c...

 Jesse Ray Drowley of St. Charles, Michigan, Pennsylvania, a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on January 30, 1944, on Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Drowley joined the Army from Spokane, Washington, and by January 30, 1944 was serving as a staff sergeant in Company B, 1st Battalion, 132nd Infantry Regiment, Americal Division.  On January 30, 1944, on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, he discovered an enemy bunker which was firing on attacking American troops. He ran across open terrain to reach a friendly tank, climbed on board, and single-handedly led them towards the bunker. He was wounded twice while on the tank but refused medical attention until the bunker was destroyed. For his actions on January 30, 1944, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Drowley died at age 76 and was buried in Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Washington. Related Article  Lloyd Cortez Hawks of Becker, Minnesota, a Sergeant First Cla...

 When Nero was executing Christians after AD 64, why was the apostle Paul beheaded but Peter was crucified? Rome was a military society in a brutal time. With first the Republic and then the Empire in a constant state of war for centuries, serving as a military officer was the essential first step in a “civilian” political career. It is no wonder that the men setting the rules of Roman society were hardened to what contemporary people would consider viciously barbaric treatment of those who broke the law. Capital punishment was standard in this society that built prisons mainly to hold the accused awaiting trial.  Executions were public, and the means of execution were deliberately agonizing for the condemned and frequently entertaining for the bystanders. Execution scenes were even used for household decoration. Despite this, Rome set the standard for Western civilizations of governing by written law rather than the whims of the current ruler. The rule of law rather than pers...

 Pakistan executes 150 in six months Pakistani has executed approximately 150 ‘criminals’ over the past six months amidst concerns that those executed may have been tortured into making false confessions, reports The Independent. Saudi Arabia has executed at least 90 over the same time period, while the United States, 14. Human rights organisation Reprieve last Thursday marked Pakistan's 150th execution since the lifting of the moratorium. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif partially lifted the moratorium on the death penalty for executions linked to terrorism following the Dec 2014 Taliban attack on Peshawar's Army Public School, leaving at least 50 convicts facing execution. The moratorium was lifted completely on March 10, leaving 8,500 prisoners on death row ─ one of the largest death-row populations in the world ─ up for execution. The report says ministers in Pakistan plan to execute hundreds more despite concerns over ‘forced confessions’ from international organisations. Many ...

 Shooting the Bolsheviks Amid the ruins of the Great War, an American camera crew filmed a shocking sight. That roll of celluloid has taken a strange trip through history.  Shooting the Bolsheviks By: Bertrand M. Patenaude In the late afternoon of May 26, 1919, in a field about thirty miles outside Riga, Latvia, a squad of nine German riflemen executed eighteen Latvian Bolsheviks. The prisoners were shot in groups of three, each victim receiving one bullet to the chest and two to the head before toppling backwards into a freshly dug grave. “It was German efficiency at its best,” wrote U.S. Army Captain Howell Foreman, an American relief worker who witnessed the execution. Captain Foreman was one of a dozen Americans whose presence on the scene may have influenced the operations of the firing squad that day. If so, this was because one of their number, Lieutenant Frank Johnson, happened to be a newsreel cameraman.  His camera recorded the scene for the ages: the reading of...

 Lloyd Cortez Hawks of Becker, Minnesota, a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on January 30, 1944, near Carano, Italy. Hawks joined the Army in 1942 and by January 30, 1944 was serving as a private first class in the Medical Detachment of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. On January 30, 1944, near, Carano, Italy, he crawled through intense enemy fire to aid two wounded men. He dragged one man to safety but was severely wounded after rescuing the second.  For his actions on January 30, 1944, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Hawks remained in the Army after World War II, and later served in the Korean War, reaching the rank of sergeant first class. He died at the age of 42 of a heart attack and in buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Park Rapids, Minnesota. Related Article  Ruth Cheney Streeter of Brookline, Massachusetts, was an American military officer who was the first director of the United S...

 The death of BenitoMussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of worldwar2 in Europe, when he was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy.  The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini's death, and the identity of his executioner, have been subjects of continuing dispute and controversy in Italy. In 1940, Mussolini took his country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany but soon was met with military failure. By the autumn of 1943, he was reduced to being the leader of a German puppet state in northern Italy and was faced with the Allied advance from the south and an increasingly violent internal conflict with the partisans.  In April 1945, with the Allies breaking through the last German defences in northern Italy and a ge...

 Meet Paul Alexander, The Man Who’s Lived In An Iron Lung For 70 Years Stricken with paralytic polio at the age of six in 1952, Paul Alexander is now one of the last people on Earth still living in an iron lungs The life of Paul Alexander could easily be viewed as one of tragedy: A man who cannot breathe on his own, paralyzed from the neck down for seven decades due to polio. However, Paul Alexander never let his polio or his iron lung stand in the way of him living his life. The iron lung is a pod-like, full-body mechanical respirator. It breathes for you since you cannot take in oxygen normally. If you’ve contracted paralytic polio, you’ll die without the support of the iron lung and you virtually cannot leave it. In fact, all the doctors believed Paul Alexander would die back in 1952, when he contracted polio at age six. He has vivid memories of being in the hospital’s polio ward, and hearing the doctors talk about him. “He’s going to die today,” they said. “He shouldn’t be aliv...

 U.S. Army Private First Class Frank H. Ono of Delta, Colorado, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on July 4, 1944, near Castellina Marittima, Italy. Ono’s father was an immigrant from Japan, while his mother was from Ireland. He was a Nisei, which means he was a second-generation Japanese-American. He joined the Army in September 1943 and volunteered to be a part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, mostly made up of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.  During a battle on July 4, 1944, near Castellina Marittima, Italy, Ono advanced ahead of his unit and single-handedly defended his position against an enemy counter-attack.  He then braved intense hostile fire to aid two wounded comrades and voluntarily covered his unit's withdrawal when it became necessary to retreat.  Ono left the Army while still a private first class. He died in 1980 at age 56 and was buried in Highland Cemetery, North Judson, Indiana....

 78 years ago today, 225 men from the 2nd Ranger Bn loaded ships and landing craft to storm the beaches of Normandy today, and take 'the high ground' at Point Du Hoc. If they failed, it was believed that all of D-Day would have failed. Point Du Hoc was (and is) the only site from where German artillery fire could cover the whole beach. A few hours ago, they would have been climbing 100ft cliffs, on ropes secured by rifle and small rocket-propelled grappling hooks and ladders (on loan from the London Fire Brigade) under downward heavy fire and grenades. In the first 'special operation' of the D-Day landings. If they were lucky enough to make it across the beach to the cliffs (Note: under withering machine gun and mortar fire), they would fire off the grappling hooks, and up they went. Two Rangers would climb, stop every 10-15ft, and provide covering fire straight up as two more climbed up behind them to take their position. And the whole thing would start over. Successiv...

 The Battle of Visby : ON JULY 22, 1361, 1,800 Gotland farmers were killed in a brutal clash with Danish troops. King Valdemar had commanded his forces to conquer parts of southern Sweden, landing there with an army of mounted knights and German foot mercenaries. The invaders faced off against the poorly equipped locals who lost over half of their army in the battle. The dead fighters were buried in mass graves with their chain mail, gloves and weapons.  Five mass graves were excavated in the 20th century outside Visby's walls from the medevial battle. The skeletons,  chain mail and weapons were all remarkably preserved. A permanent exhibit with some of  the soldiers remains and their armour is now in the Swedish History Museum. Related Article  Ruth Cheney Streeter of Brookline, Massachusetts, was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR). In 1943, she became the first woman to attain th...

 U.S. Navy Commander  Arthur Murray Preston of Washington, DC, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on September 16,  1944 near Halmahera Island in Indonesia. Preston attended Phillips Academy in 1931, Yale University, and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1938. He was a practicing attorney when he joined the Navy in September 1940. He was stationed at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and participated in the recovery operations. By September 16, 1944, he was serving as a lieutenant in Torpedo Boat Squadron 33. On that day, Preston commanded two PT boats in the successful rescue of a downed Navy pilot in Wasile Bay, Halmahera Island, in Indonesia, despite fire from Japanese forces. For his actions on September 16, 1944, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted to lieutenant commander. Preston reached the rank of commander before leaving the Navy. He died January 7, 1968, at age 54 and is buried in Arlington Na...

 Youngest mother....... Born 27 September 1933, Lina Medina on 14th May 1939, became the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days.  She lives in Lima, the capital of Peru. In the early spring of 1939, a worried family from a remote village in Peru took their five-year-old daughter to a doctor in faraway Lima. The girl’s belly had been growing for several months, and her mother was afraid she might have a tumour. To their shock and dismay, the doctor diagnosed their daughter, Lina Medina, as being seven months pregnant. Her case took the medical world of the time by surprise, and the matter has been the subject of speculation ever since.  The baby was named Gerardo after the doctor who diagnosed her. The child was raised believing that Medina was his sister. But Gerardo came to know the truth at the age of 10.  Gerardo died in 1979 at the age of 40. Medina worked as a secretary to Dr. Gerardo Lozado...

 Saudi Arabia Executes Prince For Murder A prince from the Saudi royal family was executed on Tuesday for murdering a man during a brawl in the capital Riyadh, the Interior Ministry… A prince from the Saudi royal family was executed on Tuesday for murdering a man during a brawl in the capital Riyadh, the Interior Ministry announced. The execution of Prince Turki Saud-al-Kabir is an extremely rare case of a member of the conservative kingdom’s ruling family being put to death. The Interior Ministry stated that “in announcing this, we want to affirm to all that the Kingdom’s government is determined to establish security. It will bring about justice and implement God’s law against all those who attack the innocent.” Meanwhile, local media reported that the killing for which the prince was executed took place in 2012. The media indicated that Prince Turki’s death sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court and the High Court. Another royal prince welcomed the news, in the first public rea...

 Mass-Executions Continue in Iran-At Least 17 People Executed According to Unofficial Sources Iran Human Rights, October 30: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan (Northern Iran) according to the Iranian state media. Meanwhile unofficial sources have reported 16 other executions in three other prisons. Iran Human Rights (IHR) has received unconfirmed reports on mass-execution of a "not yet confirmed" number of prisoners in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz (southern Iran) today, Wednesday October 30. IHR is currently investigating these reports. Execution of an Afghan citizen in Semnan: One Afghan citizen identified as "M. S." was hanged in the prison of Semnan today, reported the state run Iranian news agency Fars. The prisoner was convicted of possession and trafficking of 997 grams of crack said the report. Eleven prisoners among them two women hanged in Urmia: According to the unofficial Kurdish "Mukrian news agency" eleven prisoners were hanged in t...

 Ruth Cheney Streeter of Brookline, Massachusetts, was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR). In 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the United States Marine Corps when she was commissioned as a major on January 29, 1943. She retired in 1945 as a lieutenant colonel. At the age of 47, Streeter earned her commercial pilot's license, with the intention of joining either the WAVES or the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) as a ferry pilot in the war effort.  After being rejected five times by the WASPS on account of her age, Streeter chose to give up flying altogether, and instead joined the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. On January 29, 1943, she was commissioned as a major and appointed director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. She was in office on the official creation date of MCWR on February 13, 1943.  She was promoted to lieutenant ...

 U.S. Army  Sergeant Joseph John Sadowski of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on September 14, 1944, near Valhey, France. Sadowski joined the Army in May 1941, and by September 14, 1944, was serving as a sergeant in Company A, 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division.  On September 14, 1944, Sadowski’s tank was disabled by enemy fire. He and his crew leapt off the vehicle, except for one man who was trapped inside the burning tank. Despite heavy enemy fire, Sadowski returned to the tank in an attempt to rescue the trapped crewman but was killed before being able to do so. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 14, 1944. Sadowski is buried in Saint Stephens Cemetery, Keasbey, New Jersey. The Sadowski Field House at Fort Knox and Sadowski Field at Fort Hood, Texas, are named in his honor. Related Article  Painting depicting U.S. soldiers assaulting a German trench in the Fr...

 ADOLPH RUTH AND THE DUTCHMAN’S GOLD In June 1931, an amateur treasure hunter named Dr. Adolph Ruth vanished in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. He had gone into the rugged mountains in search of a fabulous treasure – the legendary Peralta Gold Mine – that had become known over the years as the “Lost Dutchman Mine.” Tragically, Ruth’s body was not found until January 1932, when it was discovered with a broken leg and a cryptic letter. The letter read: “I’m sitting under a tree in a creek with leg broke. I’ve got to have help quick. Finder of this note please give to Howard Peterson. P.S. Have found the lost Dutchman.” But did Dr. Ruth really find the mysterious lost treasure? If he did, he took the secret of its location with him to the grave. The Lost Dutchman Mine is perhaps the most famous lost treasure in American history. It is believed to be hidden somewhere in the Superstition Mountains, east of a Phoenix, Arizona, and arid and inhospitable region that does not lend it...

 Leonard Alfred Funk Jr. of Braddock Township, Pennsylvania, one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of WWII , was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on January 29, 1945, near Holzheim, Belgium. Funk joined the Army in June 1941 and in 1942, volunteered for the paratroopers, part of the U.S. Army’s newly created airborne forces. He jumped into Normandy with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment on D-Day, June 6, 1944, later taking part in Operation Market Garden in September and later in the Battle of the Bulge in December. On January 29, 1945, he was serving as the first sergeant of his company in Holzheim, Belgium when he encountered a group of more than 80 German soldiers, most of whom had previously been captured by American forces but, with the help of a German patrol, had managed to overwhelm their guards.  Funk opened fire and called for the captured American guards to seize the German weapons. He and the guards successfully killed or ...

 Remembering August Emil Fieldorf on the 70th anniversary of his death. Arrested by the communists in 1950, he didn’t break and refused to cooperate. They staged an 8-hour trial, and their court brought a death sentence. It was a soldier’s privilege to be executed by a firing squad, but Gen. August Emil Fieldorf was denied even that. He was hanged on this date in 1953. 70 years ago today, the Mokotów Prison in Warsaw saw a disgraceful scene. Gen. Fieldorf, a Polish WW2 hero was hanged like a common felon. The communists had tried him as a "fascist-Hitlerite" war criminal, just like the ones he’d fought against. This outstanding soldier and one of the most important Home Army leaders, commanding its Kedyw [Directorate of Diversion] operations, ordered, orchestrated and oversaw 1,175 acts of sabotage, destruction of 1,167 fuel tankers, 270 military stores, 38 bridges and 4,300 vehicles – as well as liquidation of 2,000 German police personnel and their collaborators. Fieldorf, ...

 Once, there was a man whbbo had more lives than a cat - and more medals than a Soviet marshal. LIFE 1:16-year-old Bolesław Kontrym from Volhynia, a grandson and great-grandson of Polish insurgents, leaves school to fight in WWI as a cavalry scout in the Imperial Russian Army. In late 1917, with three medals to his name, he transfers to the Polish II Corps in Russia. LIFE 2: Taken prisoner by the Germans he escapes, but is immediately impressed into the Red Army and gets enchanted with the communist ideology. Soon his tactical talents bring him the command of a rifle brigade and three Red Banner Medals. The red banner is the one under which he fights in the Polish-Soviet War, covering Tukhachevsky’s retreat from Warsaw – while his grandfather and great-grandfather turn over in their graves. In February 1921, kombrig Kontrym is sent to study at the General Staff Academy in Moscow. LIFE 3: That’s where the Polish Intelligence recruits him. For twenty months he passes secret Red Army ...