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Japanese Army organization

also: Japanese, army elements of the Japanese forces, Japanese forces

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Unit 731 member_of Japanese Army book_quoted
“Detachment 31 was formed by command of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, by a decree that was issued in 1936. Until 1941, the detachment had no designator. It was simply called Water Supply and Prophylactics Administration of the Japanese Arm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 20:55
Japanese Army carried_out_attack Bataan Death March book_quoted
“U.S. troops and Filipino troops were captured. And that's where you have the infamous Bataan Death March of all of these people. They were subjected. And I've read the Ghost Soldiers, the book. It takes a really strong stomach to read that …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 12:40
Unit 731 carried_out_attack Japanese Army host_asserted
“In these, a prisoner was placed on the table, sometimes administered anesthesia and other times not. They were cut open to observe the progress of various diseases. By 1944, the Unit 731 was ready to begin offensive operations. They were ea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 40:01
Japanese Army carried_out_attack Taipei host_asserted
“and other locations. They had a lot of problems with that because, not that they didn't try, there were 17 officers that led an assault team that would sprinkle Taipei airstrip with plagued infected fleas. The team and the containers of ins…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 40:33
Japanese Army trafficked China host_asserted
“In 1944, the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Divisions discovered that the Japanese were dropping what they term Christmas balls, glass balls filled with what was suspected to be bacteria on the China-Burma border. This information was then pass…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 44:56
Japanese Army carried_out_attack United States host_asserted
“of the United States. I told them that if we found Japanese encephalitis on any of the balloons, we were in real trouble. But they didn't find any traces of bacteria or any device that appeared to be germ warfare. Still, the number of ballo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 46:52

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The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 20:55 Detachment 31 was formed by command of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, by a decree that was issued in 1936. Until 1941, the detachment had no designator. It was simply called Water Supply and Prophylactics Administration of the Japanese Arm…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 21:26 The detachment number 731 was given in an order that was published on 1941 by the army as an official military entity. The doctors that staffed that unit came from civilian universities and hospitals in Japan. At a meeting in 1934, a list o…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 39:01 But he didn't want to go to the hospital because they had kind of a running joke that if you went to the hospital, you were never seen again. He described in detail that in 1943, I went round to the hut that there was about 340 bodies stack…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 40:01 In these, a prisoner was placed on the table, sometimes administered anesthesia and other times not. They were cut open to observe the progress of various diseases. By 1944, the Unit 731 was ready to begin offensive operations. They were ea…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 43:56 Did they ever try to bomb it? No. They confirmed that it was controlled by army elements of the Japanese forces. They also knew that it was carrying out experiments and that it was super secret. Upon further interrogation of many of the peo…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 44:56 In 1944, the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Divisions discovered that the Japanese were dropping what they term Christmas balls, glass balls filled with what was suspected to be bacteria on the China-Burma border. This information was then pass…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 45:24 As these investigations were being conducted, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps at Camp Dietrich, Maryland, became concerned with defensive measures about the biological attacks. With the Germans working on a V-1 buzz bomb and V-2 rockets at the…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 46:52 of the United States. I told them that if we found Japanese encephalitis on any of the balloons, we were in real trouble. But they didn't find any traces of bacteria or any device that appeared to be germ warfare. Still, the number of ballo…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1
▶ 48:47 could happen should the Japanese succeed in sending across deadly viruses and bacteria became more important than public safety. Two meetings were held in March of 1945, one at 7th Service Command in Omaha and one at the Western Defense Com…