fujisan-ni-noboru-hinode: In the 1932 Battle of Shanghai (February 28th Incident), Japanese Army Eng
fujisan-ni-noboru-hinode: In the 1932 Battle of Shanghai (February 28th Incident), Japanese Army Engineers Takeji Eshita, Inosuke Sakue, and Yuzuru Kitagawa, all privates, died together, while trying to blow a Chinese barbed-wire lined field so that infantry could advance. They were lacing the barbed-wire field with explosive charges, ahead of the infantry, when the enemy unexpectedly charged and overran their position, and so rather than being killed by the enemy, the 3 engineers detonated their charges, killing themselves and 34 Chinese soldiers. The Japanese media immediately dubbed them heros, and word spread all throughout Japan. They were famously advertised as “Our Three Patriotic Martyrs.” Within weeks, they became the subject of countless songs, radio and stage plays, and even movies. So this story wasn’t really as hyped as it sounds there’s actually documentation of the actual incident that isn’t so crazy. -- source link