Japanese KIA soldiers "WARNING"

[rajko84]

I got this little grouping from a vet's family, this weekend. Not something that you see everyday. Everyone one of them has the stamp from a navy on the back.

[rajko84]

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[Rommel1933]

really interesting.. thank you for sharing.. very real...

[RommelPlatz]

Not sure if these are Japanese soldiers. Could it be that the Navy was tryi g to document Japanese atrocities?

[mcmike]

In the first set of 4 pics:
The person in the upper left appears to be wearing shorts. Don't remember any Japanese uniform shorts. See no other uniform clues.
Upper right appears to be typical bulldozed grave for mass burial of Japanese dead. Jeep in right background.
Lower left pic - body at right center seems to have Japanese helmet straps under chin.
Lower right can't tell, no clues.
Fifth pic does appear to be Asian. Seems to have been wearing Japanese style loin cloth.
The fact that they are all still wearing their heads seems to indicate that they are not victims of Japanese atrocity. They do appear to be pics of Japanese dead on some pacific island.

Interesting soldier bring-back set. Thanks for sharing.

Mike

[1943]

The Japanese wore shorts in tropical uniforms, didn't they? And I don't think that mass burial is atrocity. I think its a mass of dead Japanese soldiers being buried by the U.S.
I mean you have thousands of dead bodies after a battle. Got to get rid of them somehow the heat on those islands would make them reek and create disease in no time. Yeh, I think that photo is an American soldier overlooking a mass burial of Japanese soldiers. All the others are Japanese soldiers, one looks like it could be a civilian, possibly Okinawa.

[Rommel1933]

I agree w/ 1943.... I also believe it is US Soldiers burying Japanese dead after a battle... Than you, Scott

[MikeP]

My uncle was a seabee and talked of bulldozing piles of dead into trenches he scooped out.

The bodies in the pic are pretty much lined up for some reason.
I believe they were killed there.

Most accumulated enemy corpses were thrown into heaps or piles.

I had pics my dad took at a camp in Germany showing brits bulldozing bodies into trenches they had dug.

Nothing very interesting about these pics as they don't really indicate anything but the fact that folks die in wars.

I think in many places by the time a big fight took place many Japanese were low on resupply and would be wearing anything they could put together.

[rajko84]

I will do the scans of the top 4 pics by themselves so you guys can see them better.

[3cavman]

War is hell