The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers.

2017年11月13日 · After Pearl Harbor, Americans took trophy skulls as they viewed the Japanese as inherently evil and less than human.

In the United States, trophies were also acquired during conquest of indigenous lands by settlers and other Native American groups. The scalp, skull, and wrist-bones of Little Crow, the Mdewakanton leader during the Minnesota hostilities of 1862, were obtained and displayed for decades at the Minnesota Historical Society as war trophies from ...

Japanese Trophy skulls There is extensive evidence that, throughout the course of the Second World War, United States soldiers not only decapitated Japanese dead, but also either boiled or left the head sitting out for ants to clean in order to keep the skull 21 as a trophy.

During World War II, some United States military personnel mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater of operations. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as “war souvenirs” and “war trophies”. Teeth and skulls were the most commonly...

I have read that there was a disturbingly common practice of American soldiers in the Pacific theater of WWII to take the skulls of dead Japanese soldiers as trophies to take home, give to girlfriends, etc.

2021年11月27日 · Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken “trophies”, although other body parts were also collected. A number of firsthand accounts, including those of American servicemen, attest to the taking of “trophies” from the corpses of Imperial Japanese troops in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

According to Simon Harrison, all of the “trophy skulls” from the World War II era in the forensic record in the U.S., attributable to an ethnicity, are of Japanese origin; none come from Europe.

Cranial remains retained from fallen enemies are commonly referred to as "trophy skulls," and many such crania were acquired as souvenirs by U.S. servicemembers during WWII and the Vietnam conflict. These remains increasingly have become the subject of forensic anthropological analysis as their poss …

2006年12月1日 · Among forensic anthropological casework in the United States, a common source of trophy skulls resulted from the collection of the remains of Japanese servicemembers by United States...