Ann Blyth in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Faithful Elephants. (via wrinkled_penis)
“Shortly after the March 1945 bombings of Tokyo, the Japanese placed US Army Air Force pilot Ray ‘Hap’ Halloran on display naked in a Ueno Zoo tiger cage so civilians could walk in front of the cage and view the B-29 prisoner.
The Japanese Army ordered that all ‘wild and dangerous animals’ at the zoo be killed, claiming that bombs could hit the zoo and escaping wild animals would wreak havoc in the streets of Tokyo. Requests by the staff at the zoo for a reprieve, or to evacuate the animals elsewhere, were refused. Ueno Zoo’s three elephants at the time; John, Tonky, and Wang Lee did not eat the poisoned food, and thus starved to death. The fate of Ueno’s animals, particularly the elephants, has often been used in Japan as an example of the evils of war.” (via wiki)
