Craig Watson
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4,699 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Craig Watson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then the infantry went in.
Men shouted and surged forward like water breaking through a barrier.
Hidden Japanese machine guns cut them down wave after wave, but more men followed behind them.
The dead piled on the approaches so thickly that nationality itself seemed to vanish in blood and mud.
Under that fire, dawn rose red.
Uchiyama watched the sunrise from the highest building in the city, the three-story Yichang Bank.
After the war, he would tell a reporter that the sky, the earth, and even the Yangtze had all seemed red-tanned, as if the rivers itself were carrying the blood of Chinese and Japanese alike.
According to a later Japanese account, messages reached him from every side that morning reporting of a collapse.
Roughly 5,000 men were estimated killed or seriously wounded.
At 8 o'clock, Uchiyama went down to the operations room.
Waiting there were his chief of staff and his senior officers.
At that moment, the final ritual of battlefield defeat began.
A farewell telegram to Anami Kurachika was read aloud.
Nearby stood the regimental flag of the 104th Regiment entrusted to Captain Izumi Shigeru before the regiment's complete destruction.
Uchiyama then took the 13th Division's own flag, the Imperial Military Color, and laid it over the regimental flag.
Officers and men wept, removed their caps and bowed their heads.
Uchiyama's hands trembled so badly that it took him three matches to set the flag alight.
In Japanese military culture, burning a flag was amongst the sternest rites of defeat.
The flag could not be allowed to fall into enemy hands.
To destroy it was to acknowledge annihilation while presenting that annihilation as a final offering to the imperial state.
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