War: World War II
Collection by The Sociological Cinema • Last updated 2 days ago
This board explores WWII (1939-1945). Although there are a number of causes for the global conflict, from the standpoint of the West, Germany's invasion of Poland is typically cited as the catalyst. In the end more than 70 million soldiers and civilians died, more than from any other war in history. WWII ended in 1945 with the invasion of Germany and the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. For images & information related to the Holocaust, see our board titled, "Crime: Indefinite Detention."
WWII: Pacific Theater
Declining Support in Both the U.S. and Japan for America's Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Source: Pew Research Center
The Fog of War: Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello
Tags: violence , war/military , ethics, jus ad bellum, jus in bello, laws of war, military sociology, sidgwick's proportionality rule, sociology of war, social justice, world war II, subtitles/CC ,...
Yes, National Review , We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding
It's kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime when you hanged someone for doing it to our troops.
Communist Soldiers at Great Wall of China during the Chinese Civil War, April 1946. Source: George Lacks / The LIFE Picture Collection
Devastation: A man looks over the expanse of ruins after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. The skeletal dome of a bomb-ravaged building where the memorial service was held today is the only building that can be seen still standing. Photo credit: AP
A woman peeks her head out of the rubble of Nagasaki after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, 1945 Photo credit: Yōsuke Yamahata
![On August 9, 1945, American forces dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. In this image, a torii appears to be the only structure left standing. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 am, local time, and it exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground. The immediate explosion killed 40,000 to 75,000 people. However, by the end of 1945 the death toll in Nagasaki may have been as high as 80,000. [click on this image to find a short video and analysis of the ethics of war and war making]](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/d1/74/9a/d1749a325db55e7353c99241965fadd3--hiroshima-bombing-fat-man.jpg)
Modern American Poetry
On August 9, 1945, American forces dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. In this image, a torii appears to be the only structure left standing. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 am, local time, and it exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground. The immediate explosion killed 40,000 to 75,000 people. However, by the end of 1945 the death toll in Nagasaki may have been as high as 80,000. [click on this image to find a short video and analysis of the ethics of war and war making]
A mother and child photographed four months after the bombing. Photo credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt / National geographic
This is an image of young girl whose eyes were damaged after witnessing the nuclear blast over Hiroshima, Japan. August 8, 1945 Photo credit: Christer Strömholm
Panorama of destroyed Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation, 1945.
Pictured are the mushrooms clouds from the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. As horrific as this even was, It should be noted that the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was the Operation Meetinghouse, the American firebombing of Tokyo.
The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 Photo credit: Hiromichi Matsuda (松田 弘道)
Two Marines assess the area while standing next to the raised flag on Mount Suribachi, 1945. LST’s lined up along the assault beaches to the right, the rest of Iwo Jima stretches out in the distance to the left. Photo Credit: Lt. James T. Dockery / U.S. Marine Corps — at Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.
Emaciated father feeding Army rations to his son after he and his family were freed from a Japanese prison camp following the Allied liberation of the city, February 1945. Photo credit: Carl Mydans / The LIFE Picture Collection
A Chinese girl from one of the Japanese Army's 'comfort battalions' awaits interrogation at a camp in Rangoon. The uniform and insignia on the shoulder of the man next to her indicate that he is a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force, August 8, 1945. Source: Imperial War Museums
U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Hart H. Spiegal tries to communicate with two Japanese child soldiers captured during the Battle of Okinawa. June 17, 1945. Source U.S. federal government
The American invasion of the Marianas began with the amphibious assault against Saipan on June 15, 1944. Following three weeks of bloody fighting, U.S. marines and soldiers succeeded in wresting the island from its determined Japanese defenders. With the island in ruins, surviving civilians were placed in internment camps. In this image a US Marine gives an interned child candy, 1944 Source: United States Marine Corps
Weary and exhausted after the tough battle for Hill 200 Near Peleliu Airport, this Leatherneck sits down amidst the battle rubble and weeps, September 26, 1944 — at Battle of Peleliu.
U.S. Marines taking a Japanese prisoner in the Marshall Islands. The soldier was probably forced to strip to verify he wasn't concealing any weapons, 1944. Photo credit: Does anyone know who took this photo?
US Marines on the beach of Namur Islet, Kwajalein Atoll, the first of the Marshall Islands to be taken from Japan in January–February 1944 Photo credit: Royston Leonard
Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerilla leader and formerly a school teacher, shows US Army Pvt. Andrew Lupiba how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of Leyte Island, November 7, 1944. Photo credit: Stanley Troutman — at Leyte Island, Philippines.
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan, 1944.
Sergeant Leonard George (Len) Siffleet being executed by Yasuno Chikao, a soldier in the Japanese navy, October 24, 1943. Siffleet was a commando fighting with the Australian Army in New Guinea when he was captured by natives, who turned him over to the occupying Japanese army. Trained as a radio operator in the Special Forces, Siffleet was part of a secret surveillance detachment...U.S. forces later recovered the photograph from the body of a Japanese major, in April 1944.
Marine comforting a crying native child during the Pacific Campaign of World War Two, Saipan, January 1, 1943. Photo credit: Getty
WWII: Eastern Front
Declining Support in Both the U.S. and Japan for America's Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Source: Pew Research Center
The Fog of War: Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello
Tags: violence , war/military , ethics, jus ad bellum, jus in bello, laws of war, military sociology, sidgwick's proportionality rule, sociology of war, social justice, world war II, subtitles/CC ,...
Yes, National Review , We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding
It's kind of awkward to argue that waterboarding is not a crime when you hanged someone for doing it to our troops.
Communist Soldiers at Great Wall of China during the Chinese Civil War, April 1946. Source: George Lacks / The LIFE Picture Collection
Devastation: A man looks over the expanse of ruins after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. The skeletal dome of a bomb-ravaged building where the memorial service was held today is the only building that can be seen still standing. Photo credit: AP
A woman peeks her head out of the rubble of Nagasaki after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, 1945 Photo credit: Yōsuke Yamahata
Modern American Poetry
On August 9, 1945, American forces dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. In this image, a torii appears to be the only structure left standing. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 am, local time, and it exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground. The immediate explosion killed 40,000 to 75,000 people. However, by the end of 1945 the death toll in Nagasaki may have been as high as 80,000. [click on this image to find a short video and analysis of the ethics of war and war making]
A mother and child photographed four months after the bombing. Photo credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt / National geographic
This is an image of young girl whose eyes were damaged after witnessing the nuclear blast over Hiroshima, Japan. August 8, 1945 Photo credit: Christer Strömholm
Panorama of destroyed Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation, 1945.
Pictured are the mushrooms clouds from the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. As horrific as this even was, It should be noted that the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was the Operation Meetinghouse, the American firebombing of Tokyo.
The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 Photo credit: Hiromichi Matsuda (松田 弘道)
Two Marines assess the area while standing next to the raised flag on Mount Suribachi, 1945. LST’s lined up along the assault beaches to the right, the rest of Iwo Jima stretches out in the distance to the left. Photo Credit: Lt. James T. Dockery / U.S. Marine Corps — at Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.
Emaciated father feeding Army rations to his son after he and his family were freed from a Japanese prison camp following the Allied liberation of the city, February 1945. Photo credit: Carl Mydans / The LIFE Picture Collection
A Chinese girl from one of the Japanese Army's 'comfort battalions' awaits interrogation at a camp in Rangoon. The uniform and insignia on the shoulder of the man next to her indicate that he is a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force, August 8, 1945. Source: Imperial War Museums