Manchuria place
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to decide that we are going to decide the kind of government that Korea is going to have. And we did that years before this. We did this in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The report concluded that withdrawal of U.S. forces from Ko…
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And if you guys recall, when we did the Asia part, we talked not really in depth, but we did cover it. The biological lab that was set up by the Japanese in Manchuria and Unit 731 and basically how they did a lot of the same experiments tha…
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The commander for Wisner was a guy by the name of Hans Hans Tofte, T-O-F-T-E. He was the son of a sea captain. He spoke fluent Chinese and had worked for 10 years in a shipping company in Peking and Manchuria before the war. Another of the …
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He refused to give up his arms. And Birch's corpse was bayoneted. I guess they were beaten up. The rest of Birch's party were taken prisoner. Birch's aid survived. The prisoners were later released. Birch's remains were recovered. There was…
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bomb damage because the Japanese had did a lot of bombing in Manchuria, which is where this is at. And it said that the aircraft before it landed had circled over a city and released like a fog-like substance over an entire area.…
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of the Japanese that was conducting experiments in Manchuria. They were using human beings as guinea pigs in that area. So he goes on to say that many of the people that were in that area had originally been supported by American forces. Bu…
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of American soldiers, him included, approximately 2,000 was taken to Manila and put on Japanese ships. And I've also read books about the conditions of these ships. They were headed to Manchuria. During that trip, they were kept in the hull…
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where they got about 20 minutes of fresh air. They had no toilets. The only thing they had was five gallon water cans. The cans ran over. There was all over the bottom of the ship that they had to walk through. The food was not enough to su…
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They died there in Korea. The rest of the Americans were taken off that ship and sent to a camp in Manchuria. Even the ones that survived the hospital stay would eventually join them at that camp. This gentleman was referred to as Pappy Wel…
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disease specialist in an epidemic prevention laboratory in Tokyo. He was ordered to Manchuria to establish a quote-unquote medical facility with the army. They were there to create weapons of war. Manchuria was the ideal proving ground for …
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He talks about, we're not going to go into this, about how they bred the fleas and the rats and all that other stuff. They had an entire zoo set up there to do that. The winter of Manchuria and Korea were harsh. So they decided that they wa…
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They found out that it was responsible for collecting and evaluating biological experiments that were being conducted. Military intelligence noted in the reports to Washington that these areas of Manchuria were so remote that gaining inform…
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The pieces of all of that then led to what we know to be, and we're going to talk about in the next chapter, how all of this turned out. What did we do with all of those scientists that are now running down from Manchuria back to Japan? And…
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thanks to the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that came into that area that rescued, and that's a fact that's never talked about. They are the ones that rescued the Americans and British soldiers out of the Manchuria camps of Unit 731…
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Toward Siberian gulags, even more Japanese were being brought into the Asian Soviet Union. Imperial Japanese army soldiers captured in the last few weeks of the war in Manchuria and Korea, in the last minutes Russia had gathered them all up…
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had been advised by the Japanese government of the Japanese POWs being removed from Manchuria in Korea and had been asked to intercede on their behalf. On December 21st, the four-powered Allied Council, the military government of Japan, met…
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who had not entered the war against Japan until the last few weeks, kept custody of the Japanese was because they had discovered what was happening in secret in Tokyo. In anticipation of the Cold War, the Americans using intelligence operat…
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that rushed across the border into Manchuria and found Unit 731. They had captured several of the people that had remained there. Though the American, British, and Australian POWs held in these locations were released within a few weeks, th…
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In Korea, it stated that, quote, figures show that a total of the MIAs plus known captives, less those to be U.S. repatriated, left a balance of 8,000 unaccounted for, unquote. The report goes on to state that many of this number had been t…
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American POWs reported en route to Siberia, it read. A recently arrived Greek refugee from Manchuria had reported seeing several hundred American POWs being transferred from Chinese trains to Russian trains near the border of Siberia and Ma…