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

The geneva Convention Preventing Atrocities Towards Prisoners of warThe Allied established the Geneva Convention to value wounded soldiers in 1864. They amended it four cartridge clips with the fourth time following some of most atrocious acts against prisoners of war during World War II. I will provide evidence of what I believe lead to the modifications of the Geneva Convention in 1949 to protect POWs. I will personate the reasons behind the amendment and accounts of the sixth Bomb Squadron 29th Bomb Group 314th wing during World War II. Finally, I will discuss the modifications that resulted from these acts of violence.Several nations failed to digest by the Geneva Convention during World War II. As a result of this, the convention met for the fourth time to redefine and establish the rules to protect future veterans. (Simpkin) There were 130,000 POWs captured during World War II. Japan killed the most American POWs with a staggering rate at forty percent of 27,465. (Reyn olds 10) It was these fearful events of World War II that led to the Geneva Convention of 1949, which righted the wrongs of the former conventions. (Geneva Conventions 864) So how bad were POWs treated? I am going to specialise the accounts of one of the most severe acts against mankind that occurred during World War II.An converse by an Army special agent with pilot 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 Tachairai air depot and was locomote 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, machine gunner Cpl. Johnson, Gunner Cpl. Oeinck, Gunner Cpl. Czarnecki, Gunner Robert Williams, Radio Operator and myself as pilot. At 0800, we were ten t o twenty miles off from the target when a twin-engine enemy fighter attacked us over the island of Kyushu. adept of our engines caught fire, which required the crew to abandon. The engineer and I remained onboard and we continued our flight for another(prenominal) five miles until we lost a wing. We then bailed out and parachuted safely forward 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.