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During World War II, Japan has been accused of forcing women from countries including Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea, and others into military brothels or coerced prostitution for Japanese troops.; however, the majority of the women were from Korea. [8]
Tsukanova was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, becoming the first (and only) woman that fought in the Soviet-Japanese war to receive the title; a memorial to Soviet soldiers that died in the Soviet-Japanese war was constructed on the mass grave where she was buried, with an ...
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.
Some women were forced into sexual slavery: the Imperial Japanese Army forced hundreds of thousands in Asia to become sex slaves known as comfort women, before and throughout World War II. Women soldiers and auxiliaries on all sides of the conflict, when enlisted in the military, were eventually taken prisoners of war, just like their male ...
Japanese World War II flying aces (54 P) Japanese World War II pilots (4 C, 10 P) K. Japanese military personnel killed in World War II (3 C, 32 P)
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.
Women in the Japanese military (1 C) Pages in category "Japanese women in warfare" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
Japanese casualties of World War II (4 C) H. Hibakusha (1 C, 72 P) Hirohito (3 C, 24 P, 1 F) J. Japanese military personnel of World War II (6 C, 18 P) M.