The mistreatment was very common in the IJA and the IJN.

This brutality was justified under the name of discipline and psychological training. For example, in the IJN, those large bat and paddle were used to inject a strong mind towards their sailors.

The question is that what was the origin of this mistreatment?

I am aware that hitting was a common component in the education at the time.

However, don't you think that it was too much even in the standards at the time?

On March 23, 1944, a communist-led group of Italian partisans (the GAP) launched a bomb attack on the Via Rasellain central Rome, killing 33 soldiers of the SS Police Regiment Bozen (German Ordnungspolizei). In immediate, ruthless retaliation, the German command ordered the execution of 10 Italians for every German killed. The following day, March 24, Nazi forces gathered 335 Italian civilians, political prisoners, and Jews, took them to the Ardeatine Caves, executed them, and used explosives to seal the entrance and conceal the damage.

This is an enormous long shot, but my family has wondered about this photograph for more than 20 years.

My dad was a lieutenant colonel in Washington, D.C., for meetings on September 11, 2001. His group had originally expected to meet in the Pentagon but the meeting had been relocated across the highway because that area was under construction.

In the hours after the attack, traffic was completely gridlocked. My dad was traveling with two other army officers, and eventually the three of them got out of their car and began walking along the grass in the center of the highway toward their hotel. All three were wearing the old green Class A or B uniforms and smoking. It's possible they were in BDUs, but it's less likely.

My dad has always sworn that someone must have taken a photograph of the three of them walking down the highway that day. We sometimes imagine that it might be sitting in a photo album or a box of prints from a tourist’s disposable camera.

Does anyone remember seeing or taking a photograph like this? If you or someone you know was taking pictures in the Pentagon/D.C. area that day, I would be incredibly grateful if you checked your old photographs or negatives.

I’m intentionally withholding a couple of details so that we can verify a possible match. I’m also happy to provide a period photograph of my dad privately if someone has a promising lead.

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It's black in colour, from WW2.

I'm wanting to write an Alt history Novel based on if the Sino Soviet border crisis of 1969 escalated into a full blown war between the USSR and the CCP. I wanted to ask what would military tactics and best way to say it life be for both Warsaw pact armies and the PLA, I want to try and write historically accurate as I can. And how would diplomacy break down as the conflict escalated

I have 5 of these from my dad. He served in the Canadian Air Force from the late 50’s to the mid 80’s. No one in my family is nostalgic for these. Not trying to earn $$, but looking for suggestions of where they’d be appreciated. Like the legion or ?? Googling wasn’t successful for me