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Control # 1 2023023726
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20231220090626.0
Fixed Data 8 230606t20232023nyua b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2023023726
ISBN 20    $a9781531502850$q(hardback)
ISBN 20    $a9781531502867$q(paperback)
ISBN 20    $z9781531502874$q(epub)
Obsolete 39    $a335933$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $aa-ja---$aa------$an-us---$ae------
LC Call 50 00 $aD805.A2$bH35 2023
Dewey Class 82 00 $a940.54/7$223/eng/20230606
ME:Pers Name 100 $aHall, Kevin T.$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aForgotten casualties :$bdowned American airmen and Axis violence in World War II /$cKevin T Hall.
Title:Varint 246 30 $aDowned American airmen and Axis violence in World War II
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2023.
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2023
Phys Descrpt 300    $axi, 304 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aWorld War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aAxis policies to combat downed enemy flyers -- War crimes narratives: Pacific and southeast Asia -- War crimes narratives: Europe -- US postwar flyer trials -- Conclusion --Appendix: index of analyzed US flyer trials held in the Pacific and southeast Asia.
Abstract 520    $a"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."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, American.
Subj:Corp 610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy Air Forces$xAirmen.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCivilians in war$zEurope.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCivilians in war$zAsia.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWar crimes$zAsia$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWar crimes$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zEurope.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zAsia.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLynching$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPrisoners of war$zAsia.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPrisoners of war$zEurope.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aWorld War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.