The Geneva Convention: Preventing Atrocities Towards Prisoners of War :: American America History

The geneva Convention Preventing Atrocities To wards Prisoners of fightThe Allied established the geneva Convention to protect wounded soldiers in 1864. They amended it four times with the fourth time following some of most atrocious acts against prisoners of war during military personnel War II. I will provide evidence of what I believe led to the modifications of the Geneva Convention in 1949 to protect POWs. I will present the reasons behind the amendment and accounts of the 6th conk push through Squadron 29th Bomb Group 314th buffer during World War II. Finally, I will converse the modifications that resulted from these acts of violence.Several nations failed to abide by the Geneva Convention during World War II. As a result of this, the convention met for the fourth time to specify and establish the rules to protect future veterans. (Simpkin) There were 130,000 POWs fixd during World War II. japan killed the most American POWs with a staggering rate at xl percent of 2 7,465. (Reynolds 10) It was these outrageous events of World War II that led to the Geneva Convention of 1949, which righted the wrongs of the previous conventions. (Geneva Conventions 864) So how bad were POWs treated? I am going to tell the accounts of one of the most severe acts against mankind that occurred during World War II.An interview by an Army special agent with indicator lamp Marvin S. Watkins revealed the following events that occurred following a bombing run in Japan.On May 5, 1945, the 6th Bomb Squadron 29th Bomb Group 314th Wing had just completed a bombing run on Tach transportai air depot and was returning to our base in Guam. The following crew members were onboard William R. Fredericks, Co-Pilot Howard T. Shingledecker, Bombardier Charles Kearns, sailing master Dale Plambeck, Radar Navigator Teddy Poncezki, Engineer John Colehower, gunner Cpl. Johnson, Gunner Cpl. Oeinck, Gunner Cpl. Czarnecki, Gunner Robert Williams, Radio Operator and myself as pilot. At 080 0, we were tenner to twenty miles away from the target when a twin-engine enemy fighter attacked us over the island of Kyushu. One of our engines caught fire, which required the crew to abandon. The engineer and I remained onboard and we proceed our flight for another five miles until we lost a wing. We then bailed out and parachuted safely before the plane crashed near the town of Taketa. I evaded capture for eight hours. I was blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken by train to a camp.