U.S. Navy Machinist Mate First Class Fred M. Jones was 30 years old when he was killed on the USS Arizona, 07 Dec 1941. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1929. Until recently, he was interred in Hawaii with other unidentified casualties of the bombing. His remains were identified by the U.S. Navy and his body was brought back to Lakeside Cemetery in Port Huron, Michigan for burial on May 20, 2017. People with American flags lined the route of the funeral procession along the St. Clair River. A large crowd gathered at the cemetery to pay their respects as Jones was buried with military honors.
The 5"/25 (127 mm) battery aboard the U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) prepares to fire during the bombardment of Saipan, 15 June 1944. Note the time-fuze setters on the left side of each gun mount, each holding three “fixed” rounds of ammunition; the barrels of 20 mm machine guns at the extreme right; and triple the 14"/50 (34.5 cm) guns in the background.
(Source: Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-14162 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command)
Chaplain Paul J. Maddox conducting Easter sunrise services for men of IV Corps. In front is Major General Willis D. Crittenberger, C.G., IV Corps. Fifth Army. Castelluccia, Italy. 1 April 1945. (Photo by McWhirter. 196th Signal Photo Co. U.S. Army Signal Corp photograph, Gift in Memory of William F. Caddell, Sr., from the collection of The National World War II Museum)
Soldiers with the USArmy Medical Dept at an advanced dressing station in Buna, Papua with a handmade Christmas tree decorated with surgical cotton wool and cigarette cartons in December 1942.
but considering there have been Germans living in Argentina since at least the 1870s, it might also just be garden-variety horrific European colonialism
(still bad, in the way that the answer to “why are there people of European descent in the Americas” is generally bad. just. not necessarily THAT kind of bad)
The picture above is of US Soldiers captured during the Battle of the Bulge, WWII.
The following is from a soldier serving stateside:
“In April 1944 Corp. Rupert Trimmingham wrote Yank magazine. “Here is a question that each Negro soldier is asking,” he began. “What is the Negro soldier fighting for? On whose team are we playing?” He recounted the difficulties he and eight other black soldiers had while traveling through the South—“Where Old Jim Crow rules”—for a new assignment. “We could not purchase a cup of coffee,” Trimmingham noted. Finally the lunchroom manager at a Texas railroad depot said the black GIs could go on around back to the kitchen for a sandwich and coffee. As they did, “about two dozen German prisoners of war, with two American guards, came to the station. They entered the lunchroom, sat at the tables, had their meals served, talked, smoked, in fact had quite a swell time. I stood on the outside looking on, and I could not help but ask myself these questions: Are these men sworn enemies of this country? Are they not taught to hate and destroy…all democratic governments? Are we not American soldiers, sworn to fight for and die if need be for our country? Then why are they treated better than we are? Why are we pushed around like cattle? If we are fighting for the same thing, if we are going to die for our country, then why does the Government allow such things to go on? Some of the boys are saying that you will not print this letter. I’m saying that you will.”“
