Forgotten Casualties
Downed American Airmen and Axis Violence in World War II
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Fordham University Press
- Date of Publication 1 August 2023
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781531502850
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 color and 78 b/w illustrations 525
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Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence.
Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the remoteness of Southeast Asia, and the rural and urban communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 120,000 American airmen were shot down over enemy territory during World War II, thousands of whom were mistreated and executed. The perpetrators were not just solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots but also ordinary civilians triggered by the death and devastation inflicted by the war. In Forgotten Casualties, author Kevin T Hall examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during this global war.
Compared with all other armed conflicts, World War II exhibited the most widespread and ruthless violence committed against airmen. Flyers were deemed guilty because of their association with the Allied air forces, and their fate remained in the hands of their often-hostile captors. Axis citizens angered by the devastation inflicted by the war, along with the regimes? consent and often encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands, resulted in thousands of Allied flyers? being mistreated and executed by enraged civilians.
Written to help advance the relatively limited discourse on the mistreatment against flyers in World War II, Forgotten Casualties is the first book to analyze the Axis violence committed against Allied airmen in a comparative, international perspective. Effectively comparing and contrasting the treatment of POWs in Germany with that of their counterparts in Japan, Hall?s thorough analysis of rarely seen primary and secondary sources sheds new light on the largely overlooked complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict. Sources include postwar trial testimonies, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR), Escape and Evasion reports, perpetrators? explanations and rationalizations for their actions, extensive judicial sources, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts.
Drawing heavily on airmen?s personal accounts and the testimonies of both witnesses and perpetrators from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations | ix
Introduction | 1
1. Axis Policies to Combat Downed Enemy Flyers | 29
2. War Crimes Narratives: Pacific and Southeast Asia | 63
3. War Crimes Narratives: Europe | 104
4. US Postwar Flyer Trials | 129
Conclusion | 143
Appendix: Index of Analyzed US Flyer Trials Held in the Pacific and Southeast Asia | 151
Acknowledgments | 243
Notes | 245
Bibliography | 271
Index | 303
Forgotten Casualties: Downed American Airmen and Axis Violence in World War II
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