"The Mission car about to take the wife of our cemetery gatekeeper to the hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds inflicted by a Japanese soldier who threatened to rape her while she was working in the fields." Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary who stayed in Nanjing during the period of the Japanese occupation, 1937-1938.
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