A bride who received a gift from her U.S. Marine fiancé containing the skull of a Japanese soldier he had killed writes him a letter of gratitude in response. The photo was published in Life magazine on May 22, 1944. [566×784]
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Yes flowers are so gauche.
This is such a blatant war crime lol
What am I gonna do with this skull?
Am I the only one who doubts that her BF actually killed the guy? Not to say that he wouldn’t have had opportunity to kill someone, but who’s got time/place to strip the flesh, clean it, etc.?
My money says it was some random ass skull picked up on a battlefield six months after the battle.
Not that this makes it cool, but it is a very different story.
Considering the expression on her face, I doubt it’s a letter of gratitude. It would be more along the lines of “Dear John… What the actual fuck??”
so he killed, a man and THEN boiled the skull and cleaned all the muscle and tissue off?
that’s some serious psychopathy
Alas, poor Yorick
she looks like brie larson
She’s a different kinda freak. This must’ve gotten her so horny
*But why skulls…*
I assume she is writing a farewell letter to the budding romantic.
Yeah, head hunting became so popular amongst GIs in the Pacific that there was a small economy built off of them and other “trophies”, and the brass at the time had to tell everyone to cut it out eventually because…well because it’s fucking psychotic.
Maybe similar things happened, but this whole picture smells of marketing/propaganda.
This is my skull. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Dear John, I don’t think we should see each other any more.
Ummm…thanks for the skull?
Dehumanising.
More like she’s finally deciding to write the Dear John letter she’s been pondering, about how she’s leaving him for his brother, who sends flowers instead of skulls.