Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing Photographs

53 items in this album on 3 pages.


Aerial photo of the city wall of Nanjing, China, 1930	Chinese troops marching into Nanjing, China, late 1937	Japanese Type 89 I-Go medium tank on the Shanghai-Nanking railroad in China, circa late 1937	Japanese troops with a captured German-built Chinese Army Panzer I tank, possibly near Nanjing, China, 9 Dec 1937

Japanese artillery bombarding the Nanjing city wall, China, circa 12 Dec 1937	Japanese soldier holding the severed head of a Chinese civilian, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-Jan 1938	Japanese troops attacking the Zhonghua Gate of the Nanjing city wall with a field gun, China, 12 Dec 1937	Japanese Type 94 tankettes attacking the Zhonghua Gate of the Nanjing city wall, China, 12 Dec 1937

Type 94 Te-Ke tankettes and infantry attacking a gate of the Nanjing city wall, China, circa 12 Dec 1937	Bodies of killed Chinese civilians on a street in Nanjing, China, Dec 1937; note Japnese military censor's disallow stamp	Japanese soldiers crossing a river near the Nanjing city wall, China, 13 Dec 1937	Japanese soldiers crossing a river near the Nanjing city wall, China, Dec 1937

Head of a Chinese man who was decapitated by Japanese placed on a barricade near Nanjing, China, 14 Dec 1937	Japanese troops ordering Chinese civilians out of an air raid shelter, Nanjing, China, 14 Dec 1937	Chinese Panzer I Ausf. A light tanks captured by the Japanese, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937	Chinese refugees, Nanjing, 15 Dec 1937

Japanese soldier dining among Chinese civilians, Nanjing, China, 15 Dec 1937	Japanese troops posing with a captured Chinese Panzer I Ausf A tank, Nanjing, mid-Dec 1937	Partially sabotaged Chinese Panzer I Ausf A tanks at the port of Nanjing, China, mid-Dec 1937	Chinese women begging Japanese troops to spare the lives of their husbands and sons who were being rounded up on Shanghai Road, Nanjing, China, 16 Dec 1937