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金州城攻撃工兵小野口徳治城門破壊図

Three images from the Japanese National Diet Library combined into a panorama of propaganda images showing the storming of a castle in Korea.

 

The caption in the upper left reads (the English part at least): "6th Nov 27 of Meiji, Onoguchi Tokuji, a soldier in Second Army, dashed with all his might and destroyed two hard gates of Kinsiu Castle by dynamite, at last, our army gained great victory. How brave he was!" The past tense doesn't bode well for how things turned out for Onoguchi...

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Uploaded on October 7, 2013
Taken on October 6, 2013