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During the Vietnam Era, the U.S. Army Chief of Military History asked Marian McNaughton, then Curator for the Army Art Collection, to develop a plan for a Vietnam soldier art program. The result was the creation in 1966 of the U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program under the direction of the Office of Chief of Military History and McNaughton's ...
Hiromi Nakayama (died 1946), army soldier hanged for war crimes; Takuma Nishimura (1889–1951), military officer who was found guilty of perpetrating the Parit Sulong Massacre, executed by hanging in 1951. Tsuyoshi Noda (1912–1948), soldier, sentenced to death for participating in the hundred man killing contest.
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
The Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, more commonly known as CROWCASS, was an organisation set up to assist the United Nations War Crimes Commission and Allied governments in tracing ex-enemy nationals suspected of committing war crimes or atrocities in Europe during the Second World War.
The Military Archives of Sweden (Swedish: Krigsarkivet) is the part of the National Archives of Sweden that keeps archives related to agencies that answer to the Ministry of Defence. The Military Archives were established in 1805 and contain listings of military personnel, drawings and descriptions of military buildings and equipment, maps ...
The relationships with German war criminals started immediately after the end of the Second World War, but some of the relationships with Japanese war criminals were slower to develop. The concealment was not always deliberate, as some records were scattered among a huge volume of government records.
Art teacher John George Mennie , A.R.M.S. D.A.(ABDN). ARMS., [ 1 ] (26 November 1911 – 24 August 1982) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] was a Scottish artist who came to public attention in 2011 for his many contemporaneous drawings of his life as a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Thailand in World War II .
The group was created by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, passed in 1998, [1] and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act of 2000. [2] Between 1999 and 2016, the working group declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1.2 million pages of Office of Strategic Services records, over 100,000 pages of Central Intelligence Agency files, [3 ...