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Gerard Piqué, 35, puts on a loved-up display with his new girlfriend Clara Chia Marti, 23, at a wedding in Spain. The architects of Unit 731 were given immunity after the war so Soviet and US forces could study their data on biological warfare. Others were used to test grenades and flame throwers. Limbs were also amputated and re-attached in unnatural positions, and some victims' esophegeal tracts were attached directly to their intestines. In a camp in northern China, thousands of prisoners were infected with various diseases and subjected to invasive surgery without anesthesia to study the effects. Images of Japanese soldiers using captured enemies for bayonet practice have become the symbol of Japanese barbarity, and the ordeals endured by Allied prisoners on the Bataan Death March and construction of the Burma-Siam railroad are well known in popular culture.Īllied airmen who were shot down over Japanese held territory could usually expect to be killed if they were able to bail out, often after terrible torture or a short arbitrary 'trial'.īut aside from the atrocities at Kyushu University, a group of medics known as Unit 731 carried out thousands of experiments on Chinese and Russian prisoners of war. The Japanese armed forces committed a wide range of war crimes during brutal combat in the Pacific and China. In 1995, he told the The Baltimore Sun that one of the US soldiers Teddy Ponczka had been stabbed by locals after his plane had crashed - and presumed he was going to be treated for the wound when he was taken to the operating theatre. Todoshi Tono, one of the doctors involved in the experiments, later dedicated his life to exposing the atrocities after the war and wrote a book against the wishes of colleagues who wanted their crimes to be lost in the mists of time. The rest died during the horrific vivisection experiments. Of the remaining airmen Captain Watkins was taken for interrogation and survived the war, he is believed to have died in Virginia in 1989. Local residents converged on the surviving airmen as they landed- one emptied his pistol at the crowd before shooting himself dead, another was stabbed to death by locals. One was killed when another Japanese fighter flew into his parachute. They all bailed out when their aircraft was rammed by a Japanese fighter. When the incidents came to light during a discussion with professors in March, the university decided to include information about the experiments within their new museum.Ībout twelve airmen - the exact number is unclear - were aboard Captain Marvin Watkins' B-29 when it took off from Guam on a bombing raid against an airfield in Fukuoka. The horrific episode has been described in previous books, one by a Japanese doctor who took part in the experiments, but the museum represents an official acknowledgement of the atrocity All of the soldiers died from their ordeal. The rest of the crew were handed over to the medical staff at Kyushu University where they were subjected to the terrible experiments.Īnother soldier was injected with seawater, in an experiment to see if it could be used instead of sterile saline solution to help dehydration. Local Army officers then sent Watkins to Tokyo for interrogation. The local residents stabbed another crewman to death and left others with knife wounds. When he reached his last bullet, he shot himself dead. One US airman was killed when another Japanese fighter flew through his parachute, cut the cords and sent him plummeting to the ground.Īnother crew member drew his pistol when he touched the ground and opened fire on the Japanese approaching him. Local residents on the ground reported seeing about a dozen parachutes. Mainland Japan had been within range of US bombers since November 1944 and the Japanese showed little mercy to downed pilots.Ĭaptain Watkins' aircraft was rammed and destroyed by a Japanese fighter flown by 19-year-old Kinzou Kasuya. It was just a few months before Japan would surrender, but the final few months of the war were bitterly fought. They took off on a bombing mission against an airfield in Fukuoka in the south of Japan. Captain Marvin Watkins and an unknown number of hastily assembled crew boarded their B-29 Superfortress bomber on the evening of the.
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