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Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific troops of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered 22 Australian Army nurses, 60 Australian and British soldiers, and crew members from the Vyner Brooke. The group were the only survivors from their steamship which had been sunk by Japanese bombers just after the defeat of Singapore.
Shortly before the war, she earned her degrees and licenses in Osaka, and returned to her parents' village of Tanabe shortly afterward. She then began working for the National Health Insurance. In 1999, she was awarded a yellow ribbon for her career services. At the time of her death, she was the oldest nurse to have served in Japan.
The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service participated in chemical and biological attacks on civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, violating international agreements that Japan had previously signed, including the Hague Conventions, which prohibited the use of "poison or poisoned weapons" in warfare. [16] [17]
It was built on the site of a former comfort station run by the invading Japanese troops during World War II. [267] The memorial hall stands next to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. In June 2016, the Research Center for Chinese Comfort Women was established at Shanghai Normal University. [268]
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
Pages in category "Nurses killed in World War II" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.