Nu ja, jullie weten wel, dat nare boek wat ik aan het lezen ben, (
Shusaku Endo's The Sea and Poison) over die vivisecties die die Jap deed op een stel neergehaalde Amerikaanse piloten, nu ja; ik heb wat
rie-sjurtsj gedaan. Foto:
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Crew of the B-29 in front of their plane -- Guam
BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:
Marvin S. Watkins, William R. Fredericks, Howard T. Shingledecker, Charles M. Kearns, Dale E. Plambeck
FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:
Robert C. Johnson, Teddy J. Ponczka, Robert B. Williams, Leon E. Czarnecki, Leo C. Oeinck, John C. Colehower
Hoe het hun vergaan is:
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Watkins (pilot) -- Taken to Tokyo, interrogated, and interned at Omori POW Camp. Released at end of war. Died in 1989 in Virginia.
Fredericks (co-pilot) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Shingledecker (bombardier) -- Place & means of death unknown
Kearns (navigator) -- Died in vicinity of crash site
Plambeck (radar navigator) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Johnson (left gunner) -- Died in vicinity of crash site
Ponczka (engineer) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Williams (radio operator) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Czarnecki (tail gunner) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Oeinck (right gunner) -- Died in vicinity of crash site
Colehower (nose gunner) -- Died during vivisection experiment
Wat ze daar nu precies mee hebben uitgespookt:
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On approximately 15, 23, and 26 May and 3 June 1945, operations were performed. None of the POWs had any injury requiring surgical treatment.
On the first date, a lung was removed from each of two POWs. While the first victim was still alive, Ishiyama removed the ligatures on the pulmonary arteries, and Komori 'scooped blood out of the chest cavity with a cup'. In the second series, operations were done on the stomach, heart, and liver of two victims. Ishiyama at one point returned to the first prisoner in this group, still alive, opened his chest, incised the heart, sutured it, then had two associates do the same to demonstrate that a puncture of the heart is not always fatal.
On the third date in May only one flyer was operated on. The purported object of the surgery was to reach the trigeminal nerve 'from the top of the brain'. This flyer died from haemorrhage and brain damage. A professional colleague of Ishiyama, observing, did not exude confidence in Ishiyama's competence: 'I was asked by Dr. Ishiyama as to what was the quickest way to locate the "Trigeminus" nerve. My answer was that it was impossible to locate the "Trigeminus" nerve because they had opened the skull at the wrong place.' The final three American flyers all had surgery on 3 June. One man had his stomach removed, another was exsanguinated and infused with sea water, while the third had several operations affecting gall bladder, liver and heart.
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