Japanese Women POWs Couldn’t Believe When Americans Let Them Keep Their Family Photos
Автор: Stories of World War II Prisoners
Загружено: 2025-11-03
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“They were told Americans would rip everything away… but what happened next left them in stunned silence.”
In 1945, on the scorched soil of Okinawa, female POWs in World War II braced for the worst. These women — nurses, clerks, mothers — clutched hidden photos of loved ones, prepared to lose even their last memories. But instead of cruelty, they were met with something no one expected: mercy.
When U.S. soldiers discovered the photographs, they didn’t confiscate them. They returned them — carefully, respectfully, even sliding damaged ones into clean envelopes. In that moment, these women in WW2 saw their captors not as monsters, but as men. The myths they had been told shattered, replaced by a quiet, humbling truth.
This is one of many forgotten POW stories that reveals true humanity in war — when enemies chose compassion over vengeance.
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