Annotation source: Seoul Metropolitan Archive
Annotation and image link: https://archives.seoul.go.kr/item/13
Annotation
In 1942, Japan invaded Burma (today’s Myanmar), a British colony, in order to block the supply route of Allied Forces. At the end of April 1942, Japan gained full control over the Burma Road, which linked the cities of Rangoon, Burma, with Chongqing, China. In June 1944, the Y Force (allied forces of China and the United States) started the Salween Campaign, attacking the territories occupied by Japan in Songshan and Tengchong within Yunnan Province, at the border between China and Burma. The Y Force captured Songshan on September 7, Tengchong on September 13, and Longling on November 3, 1944. This is a compilation of daily reports of the allied forces of the U.S. and China that participated in the Salween Campaign.
According to these reports, the Y Force received intel about “comfort women” during the Salween Campaign. There was information about captured Korean women and “comfort women” as POWs, dead bodies of “comfort women,” and information that Japanese troops had killed some of these “comfort women.”
The most relevant contents are as follows: In the daily report for July 30, it says there are twenty “comfort women” in Tengchong. On August 10, it says there are ten Korean “comfort women” among the 2nd Battalion of the148th Regiment, remnants of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Japanese forces, stationed in Longling. The August 31 report says the bodies of two Japanese officers and one Japanese woman who had disemboweled herself were found. On September 5, it was reported that six dead bodies of well-dressed women were found in Tachai, Songshan and in apparent suicides. On September 6, eight dead “comfort girls” were found in Tachai. On September 8, it says six Korean women were captured as POWs. On September 9, according to Japanese POWs, there were sixty Chinese civilians and thirty Korean “whores” in the town of Tengchong. On September 15, the report stated that thirteen women were captured alive and that the Japanese shot thirty Korean girls to death.
Contributors
[Organization] Seoul National University, Chin-sung Chung Research Team, 2015~
[Organization] Seoul National University, Chin-sung Chung Research Team, 2015~
[Organization] City of Seoul, Women and Family Policy Affairs Office 2011~
[Organization] National Archives and Records Administration 1934~
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