Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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The official figure was four hundred and sixty one.
Though a contemporary police report placed it at even far higher, possibly a thousand five hundred and twenty seven.
What rescuers remembered most vividly were the tortured expressions of the dead, people tangled together in each other's arms as they lost consciousness, clothing ripped to shreds by desperate hands clawing at one another, and bodies so drenched in sweat that they looked as though they had been soaked in water.
One survivor, Tang Jiang Tang, remembered a hand reaching out from a pile of corpses and pleading.
Sir, please help me.
The grip on Tang's shorts was so tight that it pulled them off.
He escaped the tunnel naked from the waist down.
Official descriptions of the disaster were softened.
Even so, the tragedy deepened the city's gloom, and in a place already saturated with grief, it added a layer of darkness that mattered a great deal.
However, events elsewhere would soon offer the nationalist government a narrow margin of hope.
Late in nineteen forty, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the re election as President of the United States.
I am not going to send your boys into any foreign wars.
was something that he had proclaimed during the campaign against Wendell Wilkie.
But Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordle Hall both understood that Nazi domination of Europe posed a grave challenge to American influence.
And with China's open door policy to trade effectively shut by Japanese occupation, it was becoming increasingly clear that strict neutrality might not remain viable.
In the 1941 report on China's domestic and foreign situation, Ambassador Johnson noted that during Germany's sweeping victories across Europe in the mid parts of 1940, the Chinese had become anxious about whether the Allies would remain committed to their cause.
Britain's refusal to surrender, however, together with continuing Soviet goodwill, lifted public morale in China.
Then on june twenty second of nineteen forty one, the world awoke to news that roughly three million German soldiers were advancing into the Soviet Union.
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the USSR dramatically overturned the non aggression that had governed relations between the two major European dictatorships for the previous two years.
It transformed the war in Europe entirely.
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