Mapping Atrocities: U.S. Navy War Crimes Trials in the Pacific, 1944-1949

Lindsey McKhann’s human rights capstone analyzes newly declassified World War II Navy tribunal documents which focused on atrocities committed by members of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army. McKhann created a StoryMap diving deep into the 1945-1949 Navy tribunals in which the Navy carried out 51 carefully selected trials for war crimes committed during World War II in the Pacific Islands. These trials were conducted in Guam in the Marianas Islands and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, the sites of two U.S. Navy bases, and were the only war crimes trials ever conducted by the Navy. McKhann’s capstone mapping war crimes in the Pacific Island is part of a larger virtual tribunal initiative in partnership with Stanford Libraries and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.