Thursday, December 16, 2021

Fake "Nachtwaffen" secret space pilot and Douglas Dietrich promoter Penny Bradley makes false claim about SE Washington DC fire.

The December 7 fire occurred at the home of Doris Neely, (75) mother of Darrell F. Neely (51), Dietrich promoter, and owner of GERN Radio 

https://www.gern-radio.com

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lost-everything-lo-perdieron-todo?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR0ssA6RKQ5tJiViTEVuoEJ_xrSPakHu1x1mvaIN6GuB8rhkxGe6WGXtcyE



Video of fire: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7sQlK81ZM

Bradley posted this comment to her FB page claiming one firefighter died as a result of injuries while fighting the fire.

https://www.facebook.com/penny.bradley.522


Bradley also wrote that Neely "suffered burns to his ears while rescuing the other occupants from the home".

But FoxNews 5 reported that two firefighters had sustained "non-life-threatening injuries" and were transported from the scene.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/firefighters-hurt-as-flames-destroy-southeast-dc-home

The fire was reported to have started on the 3rd floor of the residence at 10 pm:

"Working Fire 3800 block Suitland Rd SE. DC firefighters continue to extinguish pockets of fire & hotspots. 2 injured firefighters transported non-life-threatening injuries. Civilians did not require medical treatment. This was an occupied home. Checking on displacements"

Click on "Jump to Map" to see reports here:


https://dc.liveuamap.com/en/2021/08-december-working-fire-3811-suitland-rd-se-g

The home was valued at over $600,000.00 

https://www.trulia.com/p/dc/washington/3811-suitland-rd-se-washington-dc-20020--2090399585 

and located in a well-to-do area in SE Washington, DC (Hillcrest).  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_(Washington,_D.C.)

"This more than twenty-three hundred square feet property with SEVEN rooms including three bedrooms and two bathrooms was built in 1936 on 0.18 acres. Features include fireplace and basement. The big single-family two-story home stands at 3811 Suitland Rd, Washington, DC.

 "The residence generally includes information about 5 recent residents. Our records show that the last assessment was made in 2014 and that the combined total income is $347k."

The cause of the fire is now under investigation.

This is interesting:

The information on the "ownership" of the home in 2014 lists the owner as being Darell Neely with an occupation as "MILITARY"

https://rehold.com/Washington+DC/SUITLAND+RD/3811



Apparently, Darrell F. Neely was recently arrested by the FBI and charged in connection with the Jan 6, 2020, protest at the US Capital but was not incarcerated.

"Neely supposedly entered the Capitol with a marijuana cigarette and a cell phone. He says he was filming the events inside because they were newsworthy. He discussed them on his radio show with Global Enlightenment Radio Network the next day. The government alleges Neely took plates from the Capitol building, as well as a Capitol police jacket, badge, and baseball cap as a souvenir."


https://americangulag.org/darrell-neely/

"Neely was arrested on a warrant on 10/18/21  and appeared in court the same day. He pleaded not guilty to all counts on 11/2/21. A preliminary hearing is set for 1/20/22." LOL!

Dietrich supporter and "conservative radio host" Darrell Fitzgerald Neely (51) has a lengthy criminal record and has claimed to have been a US Navy SEABEE and US Navy SEAL (1992-2005)


https://mugshots.com/US-States/Florida/Lake-County-FL/Mascotte/Darrell-F-Neely.74802067.html


https://mugshots.com/US-States/Florida/Lake-County-FL/Mascotte/Darrell-Fitzgerald-Neely.71942145.html

Neely, who I have previously reported as having been investigated and subsequently arrested by the FBI in connection with his participation in the January 6, 2020 US Capitol "riot" is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on January 20, 2022.  And whos home in SE Washington, DC was destroyed in a fire (now under investigation) the night of December 7, 2021, is a career criminal and has claimed to have served in the US Navy as a SEABEE and US Navy SEAL.

Neely now faces a number of charges related to Jan 6:

(1)PUBLIC MONEY, PROPERTY OR RECORDS; Theft of Government Property.
(2)TEMPORARY RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT; Enter and Remaining in a Restricted Building.
(3)TEMPORARY RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building.
(4)VIOLENT ENTRY AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT ON CAPITOL GROUNDS; Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building.
(5)VIOLENT ENTRY AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT ON CAPITOL GROUNDS; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

This is a PDF copy of the official FBI report and request for an arrest warrant dated September 30, 2021:

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Darrell%20Neely%20Statement%20of%20Facts.pdf

His record of criminal offenses from 2001-2021 ranges from Arizona, to Florida, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC for minor traffic to theft, drugs, and assault & domestic battery.

In fact, his most recent offense was for 2nd Degree Assault on January 30, 2020.





Neely claims a BS In Communication Studies from Howard University. He and his "wife" ran a private "publishing company" from their home in DC.  Nothing is ever as it seems, or makes any sense with these assholes.  

The kicker for me was the years of service (1992-2005) and his conflicted MOS descriptions.

S1 is Admin..S2 is Intel. How can someone be trained as both AND be a SEABEE  all within 13 years including schools, sea service deployment, and shore duty?  Let alone make casual flippant hints to have been a SEAL. The dates don't line up with the actual timeline.

According to the info I have gathered, Neely was in Maricopa Co, Arizona in 2004 and 2005 getting busted for Narcotics, Unlawful use of means of transportation, and driving cross-country to Florida on an invalid driver's license as a fugitive, and had charges dropped or adjudicated in absentia!

Accordingly, I am preparing to submit a FOIA request to the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) and the US Navy for Neely's releasable service record.

Under the circumstances, however, it might also be a waste of time, as I suspect that the fire investigation may take many weeks or even months.

Meanwhile, Neely is facing a hearing and inevitable conviction regarding his actions in the Jan 6, 2020 incident in January 2022 and possible sentencing of up to 10 years in federal prison.

In the possible case of arson involving an occupied structure, (First degree) Neely could face 15 to 30 years in prison if convicted under Washington DC law.


https://code.dccouncil.us/us/dc/council/code/titles/22/chapters/3/

And the Global Enlightenment Radio Network "GERN", the platform co-created by Neely that Penny Bradley has used to spread her insane lies about being a "Secret Space Program" (SSP) "Nazi Nachtwaffen" Mars Pilot and promoting the lies of Douglas Dietrich, is essentially done.



Thursday, July 22, 2021

Dietrich Claims his father killed MSgt John C. Woods in July 1950 on Enewetak Atoll

July 21. 2021

Dietrich has now publicly falsely "accused" his own father of being a murderer while on active duty as a US Navy Sailor.

From 10:17:30 to 10:32:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d5iyKochq0&t=37767s

While reading an article about the psychotic "Hangman" John C. Woods, Douglas Dietrich infuses one of the most incredible claims I have ever heard spew from his rotten mouth.

Dietrich claims that his father was stationed on Enewetak Atoll 

As Dietrich tells it, his father "hung out" with the German scientists on the island during Operation Paperclip.  And on July 21, 1950, his father "knocked Woods into the water and then handed him a live wire cable and Woods lit up like a lightbulb." 

"My father got away with murder."

But Dietrich is such a piss-poor liar, his latest revision of history makes no sense at all.  (You electricians can correct me,) but I think someone immersed in water would not "light-up" as described, but would boil and spark.  I don't know, but handing someone a live wire into water sounds a bit risky too.

The real version is that Woods was either changing a light bulb or working on a light source and was standing in a "puddle" of water.  Others have theorized his manner of death occured while working on an "electric chair", or assassination by Operation Paperclip German Scientists.

Of course, Douglas Dietrich does not provide any other pertinent details with regard to the incident.  He fails to explain how his father became assigned to shore duty on Enewetak or what his official duties were.  

He quoted his father responding to questions from investigators at the time in a manner inconsistent with anything normally expected from a sailor and suggests that his father committed the murder of Woods as a result of his association with German scientists.

Perhaps these details will begin surfacing as "context" in future embellishments of the tale. But my experience with such details is that they are simply more lies supporting the first lie.

You can find the story of Woods here:






"MSgt" Woods was a high-school dropout and was discharged by the US Navy after going AWOL when serving before WW2. He was discharged with a "Psych Eval and rating" that should have prevented him from any further service!  Does that sound familiar?  

Amazingly, the guy was later promoted from Private to Master Sergeant in 1944-45 after he lied about being a trained/experienced "hangman".  Wow, how did that guy slip through the cracks?

But it gets even worse.  According to numerous reliable sources, the US Army never got or never attempted to obtain his Navy service record and the rest is history.

https://www.thefifthfield.com/biographical-sketches/john-c-woods/attachment/woods-grave/#iLightbox[postimages]/0

All I know is that George J. Dietrich was nowhere near Enewetak Atoll in July 1950:



His assignment according to his own service record shows him being stationed on the East Coast USA and assigned to "RECSTA (Receiving Station) Brooklyn, NY from Jan 1950 to Feb 1951 when he was then assigned to "AFSC, Norva" (Norfolk, Virginia).

Further research also proves his father's whereabouts while assigned to the Attack Cargo Ship USS Virgo (AKA-20) 

from August to November 1949.


And this confirms my finding that his father was serving some of the earliest of his following years in a Navy supply rating after serving as a cook during WW2.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/v/virgo.html



"She completed repairs in August and on the 21st began a series of voyages from the west coast to American bases in the Far East. She carried provisions and stores to bases in the Philippines in the Marianas in Japan and in China. She also made side trips to Okinawa the Admiralty Islands and Korea. That routine lasted until the latter half of 1949. In October 1949 she began an overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard which lasted until the beginning of 1950. Between 7 February and 31 March 1950 the attack cargo ship made a round-trip voyage from Oakland to Guam and back to San Diego. On 25 April she departed San Diego for a voyage to the east coast of the United States. During that voyage, she transited the Panama Canal and visited both Bayonne N.J. and Norfolk Va. She returned to the west coast via the Panama Canal once more and arrived back in San Diego on 17 July."


"While Virgo visited the east coast conflict broke out in the Far East once again. On 25 June troops of communist North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the south. The United States and later the United Nations responded with support for South Korea against the aggressors. Thus Virgo soon found herself supporting combat forces once more. On 19 August she departed Port Chicago Calif. with Navy passengers embarked and with a load of ammunition bound ultimately for Korea. She stopped at Sasebo Japan from 6 to 15 September and then headed for Inchon Korea. She arrived at Inchon on the 16th the day following the amphibious landing carried out there. She remained in the Korean war zone first at Inchon and later at Jinsen Ko for about three weeks. During that time the attack cargo ship provisioned minesweepers a Canadian destroyer an American destroyer and supplied ammunition to the troops ashore. She departed Korea on 7 October and returned to Japan where she visited Sasebo and Yokosuka before heading back to the United States on 1 November. After a stop at Pearl Harbor the ship arrived in San Francisco on 19 November and began repairs at the Pacific Repair Co."    https://www.hullnumber.com/AKA-20

This reinforces my refutation of Dietrich's latest BS claim because it too shows "context" while disproving his utterly insane bullshit!

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Douglas Dietrich and The Evans F. Carlson "commie" USMC Lie

Life Magazine, September 1943

https://books.google.com/books?id=UlAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false


Dietrich claims that WW2 began on December 12, 1937 in Nanking, China "following an attack on a peace conference between the Japanese and Chinese which began on Dec 11. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ORqYMY64A&t=9594s

1:28:00- 1:39:30

Dietrich claims that US Marines under the command of then Capt. Evans Fordyce Carlson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Carlson 

disguised themselves as "communist guerrillas" in black "coolie" Chinese clothes and attacked the Japanese, destroying the peace negotiations and resulting in the Japanese attacking and sinking the USS Panay (PR5) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_(PR-5

and the HMS Ladybird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ladybird_(1916

and HMS Bee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bee_(1915).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_incident


Dietrich further asserted that the "action" by Carlson (and by extension the United States and Great Britain) resulted in the Japanese attack and massacre of Nanking.

I will be refuting Dietrich's recent claim in an upcoming blog post, paying considerable attention to the history and whereabouts of Carlson at that time, and the nature and extent of his previous involvement in China.

I am awaiting a response from Primary Sources and am required to do quite a bit of reading and searching.

Note:  This claim against Carlson and the USMC by Dietrich is unprecedented 

Despite over 80 years of meticulous historical documentation and accusations that Carlson was a communist.  I have not found any reference to Carlson being in command of a surreptitious Marine Corps unit in China in 1937 or that the Japanese interrogated anyone who had participated in such action or had implicated Carlson in any attempt to organize such an attack on the Japanese. 

In fact, the historical record shows it was the Japanese who had given the Chinese an ultimatum to surrender or face attack in no uncertain terms even as they continued to attack and invade.

Dietrich has also claimed the "Flying Tigers" (Ist AVG) were illegal and that the document "JB-355" is proof the US intended to bomb mainland Japan on December 8. 1941.

(A document he also claims to have incinerated in the basement of the Presidio Post Library in the 1980s as a teenage DoD Librarian which he read about in an article in Soldier of Fortune Magazine that later surfaced in  the National Archives and had brief national attention.)

A library that had no basement and no incinerator.






Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Douglas Dietrich continues to plagiarize 2014 Youssef Boudlal photo of Yazidi girl

 

Dietrich Claims he took this Photo of a Yazidi girl when he was in Iraq in 1988. He also claims the girl was offered to him as a child bride by the Yazidi.




This is an edited and re-published post from August 27, 2018

Dietrich first made the claim in August 2018 in a Facebook post that showed a closely-cropped version of the photo. (The original post is no longer available on Dietrich's Facebook timeline).


"ONE-‘O’-MINE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM MY TOUR ‘O’ THE FRONTLINES IN  ‘THE REPUBLIC-‘O’-IRAQ in 1988, THE SUBJECT BEING A MINOR-AGED GIRL FROM THE E’‘ER-PERSECUTED MINORITY-SECT ‘O’ THE ŶǢƵIDÎ – THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEAR(S)-AULDEN CULTURE-‘O’-WORSHIPERS ‘O’ THE FALLEN ANGEL “TAWOÛSÊ-MELEIK ‘MELIEK TA’‘OUS’”) – TRUE LUCIFERANS AFORE THERE WAS MONOLATRY Ô’‘ĒR THE SURFACE ‘O’ THE WORLD; CAPTURED IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE(RY ONSITE ŞINGJARA -IN NINEVEH: NEARSITE THE RUINS-‘O’-PAZUZU"




But the image is not the work of Douglas Dietrich:

Photograph by: Youssef Boudlal, National Geographic 
Date Taken:   Aug 13, 2014
Date Uploaded:   Apr 28, 2015
Camera:   Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Focal Length:   200 mm
Shutter Speed:   1/400 sec
Aperture:   f/4
ISO:   200
Copyright: © Youssef Boudlal

Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

A young Yazidi girl rests at the Iraq-Syrian border. Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters




"A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border, August 13, 2014. I remember the scene well. It was the day that I arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing of Faysh Khabur. With shocked, sunburnt faces, men, women and children in dirt-caked clothes were struggling in temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), waiting patiently for local Kurdish aid."

Boudlal described the encounter in a brief article written for Reuters titled "A Brief Encounter with a fleeing Yazidi"

"I was drawn to her wild beauty in this terrible situation."
YOUSSEF BOUDLAL, REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER


This a clear and flagrant infringement of copyright law.


According to Boudlal, the images were taken not in Sinjar or Ninevah, as Dietrich claims, but at the border crossing of Faysh Khabur, which lies in Dohuk, part of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Dietrich is also incorrect in claiming that the ancient city of Ninevah was located near Sinjar.  The Yazidi were fleeing Sinjar to Syria and stopped at the Syrian border crossing about 100 KM Northeast of Sinjar. 

The ruins of ancient Ninevah are located near Mosul which is 100 KM East of Sinjar and 100 KM Southeast of Faysh Khabur. Dietrich is not only a sloppy liar, he is a piss-poor researcher/historian.

 https://mapcarta.com/12539148






My research proves that Douglas Dietrich has never traveled to Iraq and received an Entry Level Separation Discharge from the US Marine Corps in January 1988.

Boudlal is an award-winning photojournalist who worked for Reuters at the time. The photo, one of many Boudlal took that day in 2014, was featured on the cover of Jewish Journal on Feb 9. 2017, and was also featured by National Geographic Magazine.





Dietrich continues to make the false claim now (2021), three years later, despite overwhelming contradicting evidence. And now adds an interesting embellishment to his previous lie:


"Light at Opportune Angle as Sourcing from the arched radius window halōed in-nimbus ô’‘ērhead the M(iste)r DOUGLAS DUANE DIETRICH and Here captured in the E(lectronically)-(a)ttached Photo(graphic) Image (To The Re/Viewer’s Right, opposite that Photograph [To The Re/Viewer’s Left], wherebe E-ttached one ‘o’ the Mr Douglas Dietrich’s own Photos ‘o’ a young girl from the Tribe-‘o’-“Ŷǣƶīdî”, the seven thousand year[s]-aulden Cult[ure]-‘o’-Worshippers ‘o’the  “Devil-Angel” “Meīlīek Ṭāw’‘oȗs”] – True Luciferans afore there was any Monolotry ô’‘ēr the surface ‘o’ the World; captured in Photographic Image onsite Şingjara - Nineveh nearsite the Ruins ‘o’ PfAƵUƵUa as brought into public awareness by “THE EXORCIST"

Dietrich refers to the 1973 film The Exorcist in all of his posts associated with this claim.


Dietrich also claims the person in the second photo is actually himself, standing under a window which he claims "lighted his subject", the Yazidi girl, as he took the photograph. He mixes and confounds both images in a very bizarre way, including his claim of having the very rare condition of Kawasaki Disease Syndrome (blood-red eyes) as an adult. But this is another example of Dietrich's history of portraying himself as the "Peacock Angel". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus



"The Yazīdī cosmogony holds that a supreme creator god made the world and then ended his involvement with it, leaving it in the control of seven divine beings. The chief divine being is Malak Ṭāʾūs (“Peacock Angel”), who is worshipped in the form of a peacock. Malak Ṭāʾūs has often been identified by outsiders with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, causing the Yazīdīs to be inaccurately described as Devil worshippers."





NOT TRUE: 



The image Dietrich claims to be of himself in 1988, is actually of one of his favorite Asian cosplayers, "Hakken" taken in 2019 in Melbourne, Australia during "Animaga Expo 2019"

https://www.facebook.com/hakkencoser/posts/zasshugilgamesh-at-yesterdays-animaga-in-australia-had-so-much-fun-with-onnies-t/3200786839939155/

The second image Dietrich is plagiarizing was actually taken in the Royal Exhibition Building (Museum) in Melbourne.  The window can be seen clearly at the lower center of this photograph.  


Monday, May 3, 2021

The World War II Yellow Fever Vaccination Lie

Dietrich's publisher Peter Moon recently appeared as a guest with Penny Bradley "Global Enlightenment Radio Network Channel 2"

1:13:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGDLoci2f4

Moon is as rude as Dietrich during this interview.  He stutters his way through the interview, getting dates wrong, (Battle of LA: "1945")  It should be obvious to anyone who fact-checks this pathetic load of bullshit, let alone a credentialed historian, that Moon does not care about the truth.

He did not investigate Dietrich's deceptively false revisions of history.  Had he done so, he would know the book they have created is not worth the paper it is printed on. He is willingly complicit in the lies and deception.

Moon openly lies to Bradley when he states the book is a work of non-fiction. The Copyright is presented as follows:

Copyright © 2021 Douglas Dietrich and Peter Moon All rights reserved- Published April 15, 2021

"The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author."

- Clearly classifying the content of the book as FICTION!

Moon (aka Vincent Barbarick) highlights one of the most easily disproven of Dietrich's claims: 

That the Japanese were thought to have used bioweapons over LA (Yellow Fever) and an "experimental vaccine was hastily created to inoculate US troops, and 50,000 died and 3o0,000 were medically discharged as a result of the bad vaccine".

According to Dietrich, this would have been an elimination of 50% of the troops in the US Army in early 1942. 

"On 17 June 1941 the Army was expanded to 280,000 men and nine days later to 375,000. On 16 September the National Guard units were absorbed into the Army and Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass the Selective Service Act; by July 1941, 606,915 men were inducted into the Army. New units were usually formed around the regular or National Guard formations. At first there were 27 divisions, nine regular and 18 National Guard; there were also two armored divisions and a further three completing their training.

American mobilization proceeded fairly smoothly before the outbreak of war in December 1941. Thereafter, the strain inflicted by the early disasters in the Pacific and the demand for continued expansion proved too much. The War Department originally believed that it could mobilize three or four divisions per month after March 1942, but this rate could not be kept up; by the end of December 1942 only 42 of the planned 73 divisions had been mobilized".

Dietrich's version of the history of WW2 is a compilation of lies, omitted facts, and assertions twisted together.  He offers no substantive evidence for anything claiming he destroyed the documents while working at the Presidio Post Library.  (A library that had no basement and no incinerator).

The following quotations are presented for the purpose of education, review, and discussion in accordance with Fair Use Copyright Law.

"Knowing well the history of Hideyo Noguchi, they readily concluded, quite incorrectly, that the Japanese must have put the yellow fever virus into an aerosol form and sprayed the contagion over Los Angeles.  The immediate result of this errant conclusion was that the military locked down Los Angeles into a quarantine zone and did not allow anyone to leave the city.  Further still, in a misguided and crazy attempt to protect their own military men and soldiers from dying, they injected their own troops with a yellow fever vaccine that was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)".  

A vaccine created from aborted babies and adult cadavers:

"In other words, it did not work.  It also had disastrous side effects. After developing a vaccine out of aborted babies and adult cadavers, the application of it unleashed a horrendous outbreak of hepatitis amongst the military, killing over 50,000 of their own men with over 300,000 additional personnel being severed from military service as a result of permanently debilitating illness.  You can learn about this in accessible history. 

"The incompetence of the United States military high command in issuing that order to vaccinate the troops resulted in an extensive cover-up for the express purpose of hiding their own mistakes that resulted in massive deaths and mass-mustering out of their own men".

"The Battle of Los Angeles was the greatest victory of World War Two by the Japanese because, without dropping a single bomb and without firing a single round, Hirohito had not only struck abject fear into the hearts of his enemy, they panicked to the point of rampant self-destruction, killing and/or permanently disabling their own soldiers by the hundreds of thousands".

"When the Treaty of San Francisco was officially signed in 1951, thus ending the war between the Allies and Japan, Emperor Hirohito handed the yellow fever vaccine over to the Americans and said words to the effect of: “Here — you can have this since you killed so many of your own men with something with which you didn’t know you were working.”

(Dietrich, Douglas; Moon, Peter. The Roswell Deception and the Demystification of World War II (p. 155 - 157). Sky Books. Kindle Edition). 


This is so blatantly false that it is pathetic. 

In reality, it was first thought a Hepatitis infection had resulted from the use of human serum for the vaccine. Inoculation of US troops in the USA and overseas began in the Fall of 1941 after a Yellow Fever outbreak in Asia. Within two months, cases of jaundice were reported in the mainland US and Hawaii. Afterward, the type of serum used was discontinued by the US Surgeon General.

At any rate, the outbreak was studied again 40 years later and it was discovered that it likely resulted from a shortage of, and sharing of needles by US troops.

According to the 2017 American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics by the Congressional Research Service, the total number of US Army deaths in WW2 was 318,274 with 234,874 combat deaths. 83,400 were listed as "other deaths." 

And as my research will prove, nearly 50,000 were affected  (not 350,000), and only 84 deaths resulted from the 1941-42 Yellow Fever vaccine. 

WW2 Casualties:




World World War II Hepatitis Outbreak Was Biggest in History

BOSTON (AP) _ The hepatitis B virus was responsible for an outbreak of jaundice that struck 50,000 soldiers after they received yellow fever vaccines during World War II, a report today concludes.

The virus was long suspected to be the cause of the illness, but this was not confirmed until doctors sampled the blood of veterans two years ago. They estimate that as many as 330,000 soldiers may have been infected with hepatitis B spread by tainted vaccines, making it the biggest such outbreak ever recorded.

The researchers were surprised to find that few of those exposed to the virus still carried it in their bodies, even though there was evidence of prior infection.

The study was conducted to learn the long-term consequences of a hepatitis infection in otherwise healthy men. The research was directed by Dr. Leonard B. Seeff of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington and published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

The outbreak was blamed on yellow fever vaccine that was made with human blood serum. Some of the blood serum was contaminated with hepatitis B.

The researchers estimate that 427,000 doses were drawn from the contaminated lots of vaccine. Perhaps 330,000 men were infected with or exposed to the hepatitis B virus over a six-month period in 1941 and 1942, and about 1 in 7 of them became sick.

Ordinarily experts expect that about 5 to 10 percent of those infected will continue to carry the virus in their bodies throughout their lives. However, of those tested in the follow-up study, only about one-quarter of 1 percent still had the virus.

They are not sure why this was so low. But they said it might have been because the men were healthy and only exposed once to the virus. The men also were white; studies have found whites are less likely than Asians and blacks to be carriers of the virus.

In the follow-up, conducted in 1985, doctors tested the blood of 597 veterans who had been in the Army in 1942.

https://apnews.com/article/ce911d4f173f1c8ade810969005b9e57


THE SERUM HEPATITIS EPIDEMIC OF 1942

It was only a few months after the declaration of war in December 1941 that the most extensive outbreak of serum hepatitis ever to be recorded in military history broke out among U.S. troops both in the United States and abroad. This outbreak of "jaundice" in the Army, which began in February 1942, was the cause of great concern to the Medical Department and particularly to the Preventive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon General. Not the least of its disconcerting features was the fact that it was so unexpected, and also that some 4 or 5 weeks elapsed before there was general acceptance of the fact that it was actually homologous serum jaundice following vaccination for yellow fever and perhaps not due to attenuated yellow fever virus.18

In brief, the events were as follows: In February 1942, an increased incidence of jaundice in the Army of the United States was reported to the Preventive Medicine Service of the Office of the Surgeon General. By March it was evident that a widespread epidemic was imminent, and it was soon apparent that the epidemic was not limited to the continental United States but was occurring simultaneously in troops in such widely separated regions as Hawaii, the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Iceland, and England. 

For 4 or 5 weeks, the nature of this outbreak was in doubt, but data submitted by a team of the Army Epidemiological Board seemed conclusively to exclude toxic agents or contacts with infected civilians as causes and established statistically a causal relationship between the administration of certain lots of yellow fever vaccine which had been given 2 or 3 months previously. On the basis of this information and an analysis of reports from various affected units, The Surgeon General, on 15 April 1942, discontinued the administration of serum-containing yellow fever vaccine. 

At that time it seemed possible that an icterogenic agent, perhaps the unknown cause of infectious hepatitis, had been introduced into the vaccine by way of the human serum used in its preparation. Subsequently, this was abundantly proved. A serum-free vaccine was substituted in April 1942, and no jaundice that was proved to be associated with yellow fever vaccination, per se, developed subsequently in recipients of this vaccine.

This data is from the US Army Medical Department - 

Office of Medical History 

https://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/communicablediseasesV5/chapter17.htm


426

The extent of the postvaccinal epidemic

"The total number of infectious hepatitis cases reported during 1942 is provisionally set at 49,233 for the total U.S. Army (chart 3). Of these, 33,569 were reported from the continental United States, and 15,664 from overseas theaters. Although the vast majority of these cases were probably due to the vaccine-born infection, it is impossible actually to determine how many were postvaccinal. However, the type of epidemic curve in 1942 certainly suggests that the great majority of these cases followed the use of the yellow fever vaccine. "

CHART 3.-Reported weekly admissions for jaundice (essentially serum hepatitis) in the total U.S. Army, 1 January to 31 December 1942


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Extent of the postvaccinal epidemic (cont)

CHART 3.-Reported weekly admissions for jaundice (essentially serum hepatitis) in the total U.S. Army, 1 January to 31 December 1942

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Table 45 contains data concerning admissions for and deaths due to infectious hepatitis and serum hepatitis in 1942 in the various areas. The size of this epidemic of serum hepatitis can be visualized also from a glance at chart 3, which shows the reported admissions of jaundice in troops in the total U.S. Army during 1942. The shape of the epidemic curve and the fact that it occurred out of season are obviously related to the manner in which the Army's vaccination program against yellow fever was carried out.

TABLE 45.-Admissions for and deaths due to infectious hepatitis and serum hepatitis in the U.S. Army, by theater or area, 1942 shows:
 
Admissions:
Total Army (Continental USA): 33,569
(Overseas): 15,664

Total Army: 49,233
Deaths: 84

       
"In 1942 during World War II there was an outbreak of hepatitis among the soldiers within the first 4 months of pearl harbor due to the sharing of yellow fever vaccine needles. Although the vaccine for yellow fever was discovered another problem had arisen from the sharing of the needles. While soldiers were supplied with an abundance of ‘17D’ there was a shortage of needles which resulted in needles being used by multiple people. The exchange of blood caused most of the soldiers to contract hepatitis but in their situation, it was better than getting yellow fever."