...[T]he day that the Japanese captured Nanking. As many as… - Virgil John Tangborn

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...[T]he day that the Japanese captured Nanking. As many as 300,000 civilians were killed.
I would like to understand how such things can happen in a civilized society. It is as though a mantle of evil is periodically draped over the world.

Virgil John Tangborn

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About Virgil John Tangborn

(May 23, 1920 - June 14, 1944) PFC, U.S. Army, and recipient for gallantry, was mortally wounded by enemy shellfire during the on June 14, 1944 at the small village of Amfreville in Normandy, France. He was rescuing a wounded soldier trapped in a burning truck containing exploding ammunition. The action took place during ensuing explosions within a burning and heavily shelled artillery ammunition dump. He is the brother of , American . Unless otherwise indicated, the following quotes are from Wartime Journal: A Memoir of Virgil Tangborn (1938-1944) (2017) edited by Wendell Tangborn.

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