Chronology of World War II
Wednesday, August 8th
Interviewing a 'Comfort Woman'
A young Chinese woman sits on a stretcher at a liberated 'comfort station' as she is interviewed by a British Flying Officer of the Royal Air Force following the Allied victory in the Battle of Burma. 'Comfort women' were women and girls from Japanese-occupied regions who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. International estimates of the number of women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese range from between 100,000 and 300,000 in approximately 2,000 stations.