Well I found a letter written by my Uncle who served in WW2 in the Pacific. Claimed they boiled the skulls of Japanese soldiers then knocked the teeth out for the gold fillings. Apparently Japanese Dentists used gold for fillings in teeth.
I used to work with a Vietnam veteran at the post office. He would sometimes bring in his scrapbook showing pictures of villages he and his fellow marines had "liberated". It was pretty graphic. He always brought it when we got a new supervisor or postmaster. They never messed with David. He was hired right after his service , never took a day of sick leave. He fell at home had to go to the hospital, found out he had cancer and never left hospital.
During WW2 Life magazine ran a photo of a woman looking at a Japanese skull her bf/husband sent her
I've seen scrapbooks like that before. A few years ago I was at the "big flea" over in Chantilly, Va which is basically a giant indoor flea market right outside of Washington, DC. I was hoping to find some CW items but one guy had a table of old ww2 photos for sale. Gruesome photos to say the least, one was of Japanese skulls on stakes on both sides of a path leading to an American military tent. Another photo was of painted Japanese skulls decorating an American tank.
Yes Dickson mounds was in Illinois as well. So you could see the archeology, now it's covered from viewing.....I've always found it incredibly bizarre we can still show mummies/cavemen archeology from elsewhere but not pre American archeology.
The flipside of this, on April 8, 1945 the USS Gregory DD802 was attacked by several Kamikaze pilots off the shore of Okinawa, coming out of the morning sun one of the aircraft managed to slip past the defensive fire, the aircraft crashed midship just above the water line flooding the engine room before cartwheeling across the deck taking out the radio shack and two anti aircraft gun pits killing three and injuring others.
look like a booger!
Bringing the