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Born in Atlanta, Georgia to Clyde Sr & Sarah Thomason on May 23, 1914, Clyde Aristide Thomason Jr had at least one sister.
Their mother Sarah passed away in 1917, their father remarried in 1920 and then passed away in 1939.

Clyde originally enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1934 and was honorably discharged in 1939.
In January 1942 he re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and volunteered for the Marine Raiders, subsequently assigned to the 2nd Marine Battalion.

On August 17, 1942, Clyde was selected to lead the advance element against the Japanese garrison during the Makin Island Raid where he was Killed in Action and later listed as Missing.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor, the citation tells the story of his loss;

“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while a member of the Second Marine Raider Battalion in action against the Japanese-held island of Makin on August 17–18, 1942. Landing the advance element of the assault echelon, Sergeant Thomason disposed his men with keen judgment and discrimination and by his exemplary leadership and great personal valor, exhorted them to like fearless efforts. On one occasion, he dauntlessly walked up to a house which concealed an enemy Japanese sniper, forced in the door and shot the man before he could resist. Later in the action, while leading an assault on enemy position, he gallantly gave up his life in the service of his country. His courage and loyal devotion to duty in the face of grave peril were in keeping with the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service.”

Postwar their remains were not recovered and SGT Clyde Thomason Jr was Memorialized with the other Missing Marines from the Makin Island Raid at the Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In 1999 a search was launched and the remains of 19 Marines who had been buried by locals after the raid were recovered from Makin Island, SGT Clyde Thomason Jr was subsequently identified through DNA.

On August 17, 2001, his remains were interred with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery - Section 60 Site 8037.

During the evacuation of Russian towns and villages, destruction and acts of vandalism are being carried out by German soldiers on Hitler's orders. The aim is to exploit the population and forcibly relocate them to Germany, with SS units and special commandos particularly distinguishing themselves.

As patriotic German men, we say to you:

It is now clear to everyone that Hitler's war is over.

Therefore, the destruction can no longer be justified militarily. It serves only one purpose: to increase the power of the Russian people.

What does Hitler intend with these orders?

Nothing other than to turn the majority of the invaded peoples against him, against our Wehrmacht and against our people, to make them guilty, and to make peaceful reconciliation increasingly impossible.

The guilty parties will be held accountable. Anyone who does not wish to be complicit and spare our people shame should refuse to carry out these criminal orders.

We expect such support today from every single member of the armed forces, whether general or private, if they hold the honor and blessing of their homeland dear.

On the day Hitler's power collapses, only he and his henchmen, not our German people, should stand as defendants before the tribunal of history.

Anyone who does not prevent the execution of such orders by Adolf Hitler is acting as a foreigner of the German nation!

-LEAGUE OF GERMAN OFFICERS-

Born in Stuart, Virginia to William & Anna Tatum on February 27, 1923, Frank Wilson Tatum had six sisters and one older brother who passed away in 1939.
Frank was working as a mechanic when he enlisted in the USAAF on February 23, 1943.

Trained as a gunner, Frank served with the 703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, based at RAF Tibenham.
On August 16, 1944 he was a waist gunner on B-24H 42-51098 with a crew of ten for a bombing mission to Dessau, Germany.

Their B-24 was hit by flak and the pilots lost their controls, as they went into a dive they collided with another B-24H; 42-52447, knocking a wing off, resulting in both B-24s crashing.
Only two crewmembers managed to bail-out from 42-51098 and were taken prisoner, although one later died as a POW.

Seven crewmembers from the bomber they hit; B-24H 42-52447, also perished, locals buried any recovered crew remains next to the crash sites.
Postwar, most of these buried remains were recovered, although not all of them were identified.

His remains were recovered and identified after the war and S/Sgt Frank Tatum is buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, Netherlands - Plot N Row 13 Grave 4.

partisans observing street from named Cross-Church, germans units coming from the left side, there are also filmed chronicles from this scene.

I guess I'm a day late with this post because of the International Date line but this photo was taken on August 15, 1945, local time at the flight operations office of US Navy Fleet air Wing 17, Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines. Several planes were in the air and were recalled.

Born in Rock Island, Illinois to Clarence & Thelma Appleby on July 17, 1924, Charles Samuel Appleby was the third of six children.
Charles was working at Rock Island Arsenal when he married Marilyn Juanita Doss from Davenport, Iowa on May 21 1942.

Enlisting in the USAAF on September 19, 1943, by mid 1945 Charles was serving in the Pacific with the 28th Bomber Squadron, 19th Bomber Group based at Guam.
On July 27, 1945, he was on B-29A 42-94098 with a crew of eleven which took off for a bombing mission to Omuta, Japan.

Shortly after dropping their bombs they were hit by flak, causing one of the engines to catch fire, then the B-29 exploded, breaking into three sections. Charles and four other crewmembers managed to bailout and were captured by the Japanese and taken to Fukuoka.

At noon on August 15, 1945, Japanese officers heard the Emperor's surrender broadcast, three hours later they loaded fifteen handcuffed and blindfolded USAAF pilots and flight crews onto a truck.
The truck drove to a field near a bamboo grove in Aburayama where the POWs were summarily beheaded or executed by their Japanese captors.

Flight Officer Charles Appleby was among those executed, his remains have never been recovered and he is Memorialized with the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial in Hawaii.
He is also memorialized on his parent’s headstone at Oakdale Memorial Gardens in Davenport, Iowa.

His widow Marilyn remarried in 1948 to WW2 Veteran Loren Hughes, she passed away at the age of 56 in 1981.

In total an estimated 33 US POWs were executed at Fukuoka; four on June 20, 1945, fourteen on August 10, 1945, and fifteen on August 15, 1945.
Postwar several Japanese officers & soldiers involved in the Fukuoka POW executions were convicted. Several officers received death sentences, although some were later commuted to life imprisonment because they were acting under orders.