The USS Oklahoma is pulled upright after capsizing due to damage during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941. 21 massive GE DC motors were anchored to the shore and cables strung to the ship. It took three months to pull the ship upright. It was beached, patched up and sold for scrap, but while being towed to the US, it developed a leak. Despite the efforts of the salvors, the ship settled and finally, after many hours, rolled over and sank.
Miner Searle Bates was a professor of history at Nanking University when the invasion began. He was one of the key figures in setting up the Nanking Safety Zone. He pulled soldiers of off women that they were raping, and protected many people at great risk to himself. He wrote to the Japanese embassy to protest what was happening in the city.
During World War II, many of Japan’s soldiers committed such crimes against humanity that the world recoiled in horror. During the notorious six-week-long “rape of Nanking” in 1937, Japanese forces murdered at least 200,000 men, women, and children. Throughout the Pacific War, Allied prisoners were often starved, tortured, beheaded, even cannibalized.
Soldier confirms wartime sex slavery （The Japan Times） スタン反戦
"Yasuji Kaneko is an ex-soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, and a former detainee of both Siberian Internment by the Soviet Union during 1945-1950 and Fushun War Criminals Management Centre in China during 1950-1956. He is known for his extensive war crimes testimony, including his involvement in the Unit 731 and the Nanking Massacre. He is a member of the Network of Repatriates from China."