ITT: heroes

Fuck, I forgot the picture again.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon

>In June 1944, Salomon saw his first combat — going ashore on Saipan with the 105th Infantry. With little dental work to do during active combat, Salomon volunteered to replace the 2nd Battalion's surgeon, who had been wounded. As the 2nd Battalion advanced, casualties were high. On July 7, Salomon's aid station was set up only 50yardsbehind the forwardfoxholeline. Fighting was heavy and a major Japanese assault soon overran the perimeter, then the aid station. Salomon was able to kill the enemy that entered the hospital tent and ordered the wounded to be evacuated, while he stayed to cover their withdrawal.[2]

>When an Army team returned to the site days later, Salomon's body was found slumped over a machine gun, with the bodies of 98 enemy troops piled up in front of his position. His body had 76 bullet wounds and many bayonet wounds, up to 24 of which may have been received while he was still alive.

that's brutal...

>During the My Lai massacre, Thompson and his Hiller OH-23 Raven crew, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn, stopped a number of killings by threatening and blocking officers and enlisted soldiers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. Additionally, Thompson and his crew saved a number of Vietnamese civilians by personally escorting them away from advancing United States Army ground units and assuring their evacuation by air. Thompson reported the atrocities by radio several times while at Sơn Mỹ. Although these reports reached Task Force Barker operational headquarters, nothing was done to stop the massacre. After evacuating a child to a Quảng Ngãi hospital, Thompson angrily reported to his superiors at Task Force Barker headquarters that a massacre was occurring at Sơn Mỹ. Immediately following Thompson's report, Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Barker ordered all ground units in Sơn Mỹ to cease search and destroy operations in the village.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson_Jr.

Why hasn't this man been given the Medal of Honor yet?

>tfw your home is only known for particularly brutal pacific theater battles and modern nigger rape

Being Okinawan is hard sometimes.

Possibly because of resentment, plus the MoH is only awarded for combat actions.

>In 1970, Thompson testified against those responsible for the My Lai Massacre. Twenty-six officers and enlisted soldiers, includingWilliam CalleyandErnest Medina, were charged with criminal offenses, but all were either acquitted or pardoned. Thompson was condemned and ostracized by many individuals in the United States military and government, as well as the public, for his role in the investigations and trials concerning the My Lai massacre. As a direct result of what he experienced, Thompson suffered fromposttraumatic stress disorder,alcoholism, divorce, and severenightmare disorder. Despite the adversity he faced, he remained in theUnited States Armyuntil November 1, 1983, and continued to make a living as a helicopter pilot in thesoutheastern United States.

However, the Army did honor him and his crew.

>In 1998, 30 years after the massacre, Thompson and the two other members of his crew, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn, were awarded theSoldier's Medal(Andreotta posthumously), the United States Army's highest award for bravery not involving direct contact with the enemy.[1]Thompson and Colburn also returned toSơn Mỹin 1998, where the massacre took place, to meet with survivors of the massacre. In 1999, Thompson and Colburn received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award.

Is there any American general who was sentenced for war crimes over Vietnam?

I don't know about for the entirety of the conflict, but nobody served a day of jail time for My Lai.

>Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only LieutenantWilliam Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years underhouse arrest.

>MoH is only awarded for combat actions

Not entirely true

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients_during_peacetime

>>death by guillotine
>Jesus H. Christ.
You know that the French executed their last prisoner using a Guillotine in 1979 right?

Col. Robert B. Rheault was court-martialled and thrown out of the Army for murdering a suspected North Vietnamese double agent. He later wound up being a major inspiration for the character of Col. William Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

Huh, I hadn't realized that.
Oh yeah. I find it weird that the guillotine stuck around as long as it did.
God, Vietnam was such a shitshow.

>Oh yeah. I find it weird that the guillotine stuck around as long as it did.
Efficient
Cheap
Painless

I can understand it.

Well, theoretically painless. Some eyewitnesses described Marie Antoinette's head as making a pained/shocked grimace it was cut off. Probably just muscle spasms, but still.

>Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection.
>after two weeks of starvation and dehydration

Fair enough, beter than the chair, gassing or poison though. I think the guillotine is more humane than the methods used by the USA today.

well he was canonised by the Pope later and there's probably some legends to the story but what he did still makes him a hero.

Eh, you could argue it's less humane than lethal injection.

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It's crazy. My parents remember the last execution by guillotine.

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>Guderian persuaded Hitler to make Wenck chief of staff of Army Group Vistula (with the power to launch the attack).[7] Wenck's attack was initially successful, but Hitler requested him to attend daily Fuehrer briefings which forced him to make a daily round trip of 200 miles. On February 14, 1945, an extremely tired Wenck took the driving wheel from his driver Dorn who had collapsed. Wenck then fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car off the road. Saved by Dorn, he ended up in the hospital with a fractured skull and five broken ribs, while the attack failed.[8] From 1944 to 1945, Wenck was Chief of the Fuehrungsstabs, an office that replaced Quartermaster General I
>On 10 April 1945, Wenck was appointed commander of the German Twelfth Army located to the west of Berlin to guard against the advancing American and British forces. But, as the Western Front moved eastwards and the Eastern Front moved westwards, the German armies making up both fronts backed towards each other. As a result, the area of control of Wenck's army to his rear and east of the Elbe River had become a vast refugee camp for German civilians fleeing the path of the approaching Soviet forces. Wenck took great pains to provide food and lodging for these refugees. At one stage, the Twelfth Army was estimated to be feeding more than a quarter million people every day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

>Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948) was a Polish cavalryman and intelligence officer. He served as a Rittmeister with the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War, Second Polish Republic and World War II. Pilecki was also a co-founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) a resistance group in German-occupied Poland and was later a member of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa). He was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust. He was a devout Catholic.

>During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and, as early as 1941, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly two and a half years of imprisonment. Pilecki took part as a combatant in the Warsaw Uprising[2] in August-October, 1944.[3] He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile after the Soviet-backed communist takeover of Poland and was arrested for espionage in 1947 by the Stalinist secret police (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa) on charges of working for "foreign imperialism", thought to be a euphemism for British Intelligence.[4] He was executed after a show trial in 1948. Until 1989, information about his exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime.[4][5]

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>dumping pictures of text
why not post a link to the text instead of spamming

must have been shit being a subordinate of Hitler...
the thing with the civilians is the kind of stuff I was looking for... I consider people who save lives far greater heroes than those who just kill many enemies.
awesome man, a disgrace what was done to him after the war

thanks for the bumps I guess, but this

Linking to a continuous stream of text doesn't make sense when I want to post about one specific topic within the, besides, this is an imageboard.

Think before posting.

>I consider people who save lives far greater heroes than those who just kill many enemies.
Berlin was a lot like that, even SS commanders like Steiner saw little point in launching offensives and defied Hitler to hold corridors open for anyone running away from the Soviet advance

you have a point. Nevermind.

they should have disobeyed Hitler far earlier...

And absolutely nothing of value was lost.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi

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I notice you didn't screencap your post and post it as an image. Why?

Because that is what the comment section is for and links make it easier to post even bigger walls of text if necessary, I can post the full text of Mein Kampf here

archive.org/stream/meinkampf035176mbp/meinkampf035176mbp_djvu.txt

you think more, also seek mental healthcare because everything you posted was schizophrenic drivel

>getting a medal of honor from the US army for exposing the US army as an army just as capable of cruel pointless barbarism as any supposedly savage commie force

Hey you also got taco-rice, so it's not all bad.

You think Americans would actually convict their own with the concept of command responsibility despite using it in war responsibility trials after WW2?

>In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met Heinrich Himmler. Bernadotte had originally been assigned to retrieve Norwegian and Danish POWs in Germany. He returned on 1 May 1945, the day after Hitler's death. The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet wrote that Bernadotte succeeded in rescuing 15,000 people from German concentration camps, including about 8000 Danes and Norwegians and 7000 women of French, Polish, Czech, British, American, Argentinian, and Chinese nationalities. The missions took around two months, and exposed the Swedish Red Cross staff to significant danger, both due to political difficulties and by taking them through areas under Allied bombing.
>The mission became known for its buses, painted entirely white except for the Red Cross emblem on the side, so that they would not be mistaken for military targets. A count of 21,000 people rescued included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 Jews, and 1,124 Germans.
>On 20 May 1948, Folke Bernadotte was appointed "United Nations Mediator in Palestine". In this capacity, he succeeded in achieving an initial truce during the subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
>Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the armed Jewish Zionist group Lehi.
>A three-man center of Lehi had approved the killing, including the future Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir. A four-man team ambushed Bernadotte's motorcade in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood. The team set up a makeshift roadblock at Ben Zion Guini Square, and waited in a jeep. When Bernadotte's motorcade approached, three men got out and approached the jeep. The Israeli liaison officer who was sitting in the leading UN vehicle, called out in Hebrew to let them through, but was ignored. Cohen came up to Bernadotte's sedan and fired through an open window, hitting Bernadotte and a French officer who was sitting beside him, Colonel André Serot. Both Bernadotte and Serot were killed.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg
>be Swedish diplomat in Hungary
>take advantage of your position to save thousands of Jews from the Arrow Cross and SS
>when Budapest falls to the Soviets, SMERSH detains you for no reason and you get unpersoned, probably tortured and executed on made up charges

two real heroes, didn't know about them, thanks for sharing!

also on the topic of Hungary, you could argue that the reason there were still Jews in Budapest in 1944 was a hero too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miklós_Horthy
fuck the G*rmans for stabbing him in the back

>innocently playing
this is what hedonists believe

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

nice guy, but how about you keep that
>G*rmans
shit at /int/ or /pol/?
Look at the first few posts in this thread ffs. Refer to them as Nazis, the German nation is far more than these faggots.