World War Ii Paper

There are plenty of ways to describe World War II— some would call it “the best war ever”, while others would say the war is an entirely romanticized version of the vile truth. Michael C.C. Adams, author of The Best War Ever: America and World War II, attentively addressed in his novel that the media also dramatically romanticized, not just the war, but the woman’s status in the war as well. Adams frontally stated that “nurses [in World War II] were [considered] glamorous but brainless sex objects in short shorts” and on an excess number of accounts “sex-starved GIs tried to rape […] army nurse[s]”. American nurses were victimized as well as thousands, if not over a million, of other women from all over the map. The proclaimed excuse for violating any woman that crossed the path of a military personnel was that these men fell victims to “sex-starvation”. These sexual urges overcame American military personnel as often as it prevailed over the Imperial Japanese Army and many others. World War II is praised for its heroism, patriotism, and its cliché, dramatized ending, but it disregards the explicit fact that this war was also used as an attempt and excuse to wage an international war against women.

World War II first encountered rape when Japanese militants from the Imperial Army invaded a city in eastern China called Nanking and brutally raped and slaughtered all who stumbled into their path. This event is known as The Rape of Nanking and is remembered as the forgotten holocaust of World War II. Throughout the time span of this atrocity, Japanese soldiers dehumanized and objectified every Chinese citizen they came across throughout the city. Chinese journalists’ photographs that documented the

severity of these war crimes were soon after published by news agencies. A photograph depicted “the beheading of civilians while Japanese soldiers cheer[ed] and [took] pictures for souvenirs”, while another photograph showed “a Japanese soldier exposing the breasts of...