Compassion in War

Discussion in 'General' started by Drew5233, Feb 5, 2009.

  1. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    US National Archives.

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    "Carrying a Jap[anese] prisoner from stockade to be evacuated and treated for malnutrition. Iwo Jima." February 23, 1945.

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    After the U.S. takes Saipan in July 1944, a Marine lifts a nearly dead infant from a cave where civilians have been hiding, many choosing suicide by grenade over capture by the Americans.

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    In July 1944, U.S. servicemen rescue locals, like this woman with a small child on her back who had spent some of the month-long battle of Saipan hiding in a cave, and build them a refugee camp for the duration of the war.

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    On the second day of the Normandy invasion during WWII, American Red Cross and German Red Cross workers in army uniforms carrying unident. soldier on stretcher as others watch and wait in courtyard.
     
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  3. Swiper

    Swiper Resident Sospan

    Sorry no pictures but words taken from the 4th Welch War Diary:
    Officer Cadet: Bahring - captured approx 2300 hours
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    5 Company 21 Panzer Genadier – captured area of crossroads 944613.
    He used to be a member of 2 SS Panzer Division, SS PGR Deustchland, and prior to enlisting had been a medical student. "[FONT=&quot]This PW although wounded himself cared for and brought to our lines one of our wounded officers."[/FONT]
     
  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

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    German soldier Fritz Ehrhardt lying in a Russian hospital after being wounded in action at the front. Moscow, Russia, 1941.
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    German soldier Georg Hammerschmidt smiling while lying in a Russian hospital after being wounded in action at the front.Same year and location as above.
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    German soldier Stephen Dorisch having his wounds tended to by nurses in a Russian hospital after being wouned in action at the front. Same Location and year.
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    German soldier Karl Heimann lying in a Russian hospital after being wounded in action at the front.
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    German soldier Rolf Helmudt lying in a Russian hospital after being wounded in action at the front.
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    German soldier Josef Koller lying in a Russian hospital after being wounded in action at the front.
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    Anyone know of what happened to them?

    American soldier shares water and food w. 3 dirty, ragged native island children clothed in rags following the defeat of Japanese forces occupying the island. Saipan, Marianas Islands. July 1944.
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    Wounded Germans prisoners, captured by Americans during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, on stretchers on the beach awaiting deportation to English prison camps. June 1944.
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    Wounded at casualty clearing station in jungle, from which they are flown to base hospitals after premlinary treatment during Burma campaign. 1945.
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    I would imagine this to be quite a rare occurance
     
  5. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    Isn't this considered a great dishonor by the japs?
     
  6. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    American medics preparing to move stretcher bearing a wounded German prisoner, captured during the battle for control of Sened area. Tunisia 1943.
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    American medics prepare to move stretcher of a wounded Filipino woman during a lull in the fighting between US forces and occupying Japanese troops in the city. Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Feb 1945.
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    American soldiers assist injured and exhausted Filipino women they have just freed from captivity in a church during the fight to retake the Philippines from occupying Japanese forces. Intramuros, Philippines. Feb 1945.
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    Papuan native helping a wounded Australian infantryman along road away from the Buna battlefront. 1942.
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  7. Elven6

    Elven6 Discharged

    Isn't this considered a great dishonor by the japs?

    Yes but it is just a picture afterall, it can't tell us what was going through his mind when he accepted aid. Perhaps he wanted to live to fight another day, go home, etc. On the opposite end of the spectrum perhaps he had no means to take his life or the life of those around him so he was waiting for the opportunity. Many questions come to mind, more pictures of that scenario Andy?
     
  8. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Marine medic tends wounded child as his mother bows low in gratitude after they were captured or surrendered to Americans during battle between US and Japanese forces for control of Saipan. 1944.
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    American Army Lt. Richard K. Jones sharing his food rations w. pair of young Japanese children found hiding in an abandoned tomb, Okinawa 1945.
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  9. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » WWII Angel of Mercy Pilot Reunion-German Ace Let Badly Damaged B-17 Fly Home-Pilots Meet Years Later

    Charlie Brown (a 21-year old) was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton, England. His B-17 was called “Ye Olde Pub” and was in a terrible state, having been hit by flak and fighters while on a mission to bomb a factory in Bremen, Germany. The compass was damaged and they were flying deeper over enemy territory instead of heading home to Kimbolton...
     
  10. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

    That a taken at Anzio on May 23rd 1944 & it's a member of the 1st Bn Green Howards, 5th Division the wounded soldier is Private Mornington Sutton of the author Raleigh Trevelyan's platoon.


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    Im about a third of the way through Trevelyans Book 'The Fortress'.

    The 23rd May 44 resulted in Trevelyan getting injured himself with a shrapnel wound in th shoulder, which resulted in him being evacted via CCS to the 186th General Hospital at Naples.
     
  11. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

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  12. MyOldDad

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  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

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  15. Ropi

    Ropi Biggest retard of all

    I once read somewhere that on D-day, the Germans found a position that they believed to be a paratrooper radio post, so they opened up on it. In fact it was a kind of field hospital, and the doctor (a Lt., I can't remember his name) opened the door a bit and put his red-cross helmet out. The Germans immediatly stopped firing, and brought their wounded there too, so that American doctor, and the German ones could treat wounded - Gemans and Americans alike - in the same place. IIRC the american doctor was captured, but later liberated by paras, and the Germans became captives.
     
  16. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    Isn't this considered a great dishonor by the japs?
    Many "Japanese" soldiers were actually Korean, Manchurian or Taiwanese who were drafted into the IJA. They didn't share the Japanese zeal to die for the Emporer, and didn't subscribe to the Bushido Code either. Can't really blame them at all.
     
  17. Lofty1

    Lofty1 Senior Member

    Hi sorry this is modern, however it seems to fit the thread, lofty.
     

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    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

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  19. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    This is an extract from a Feb 1940 specialist course photo at the Army Staff College:
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    Depicted are three of the Directing Staff (DS): Lt Col KVB Benfield DSO MC RA, Maj Gen RJ Collins CB CMG DSO and Lt Col HR Swinburn MC I.A.

    Maj Gen Robert Collins had been brought from retirement at the start of WW2; initially as GOC 61 Infantry Division, but was then reappointed as the Commandant of the Staff College in Nov 39, a prestigious and influential position he would hold for 2 years.

    The primary course at the College (and also the Indian Army Staff College at Quetta) had an initial goal of teaching students to not only be excellent staff officers, but also to identify potential generals of the future. The outbreak of war and the necessity to provide large numbers of competent and qualified staff officers in the quickest time possible had resulted in the peacetime course being considerably reduced from nearly two years to five months. In addition, its competitive entrance exam was suspended and replaced by special selection and recommendation by senior commanders - chosen men, as it were. And if the students were under testing levels of scrutiny set by the Commandant, so were their immediate DS.

    Robert Collins had done a similar job before, being Chief Instructor at the Staff School in Cambridge in the third year of WW1, then applying what he had taught as Commander 73 Inf Bde for the final battles in Flanders, including the Sambre; thereafter back to Camberley as DS in 1919 and on to Director of Military Training in India in 1924, amongst other things.

    I mention him here because in 1946, he became, with Victor Gollancz, Phoebe Cusden and Frank Pakenham (7th Lord Longford), one of the founders in 1946 of the Reading- Düsseldorf Association. This provided help from the people of Reading, Berkshire for the inhabitants of Düsseldorf, which had been heavily bombed during the War.

    The Initiative followed a plea from the R BERKSHIRES, then garrisoned in the occupied city, initially to Collins (late R BERKSHIRES). An overview is given within:

    Phoebe Cusden - Wikipedia

    I expect that the same core of humanity and compassion that Collins applied here ran through the ethos and tone of instruction he had directed in his many training endeavours. I wonder if he is also commemorated with a similar blue plaque?
     
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