Enola Gay Hiroshima Bomber, Female And Black Soldiers Erased In A Purge Of Pentagon Dei Files Shocking 15/03/2025

References to a World War II Medal of Honor Contest, The Enola Gay Aircraft That Dropped An Atomic Bomb on Japan, and the First Women to Pass Marine Infantry Training Are Among the Tens of Thousands of Photos and Online Posts Marked for Deletion as the Defense Works to Purge Dei Content Equity and inclusion content, According to Shocking Database Obtained by The Associated Press.

The database, which has been confirmed by US officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been reported for withdrawal from all military branches. But the possible total could be much higher.

An official, who spoke under the cover of anonymity to provide details that have not been made public, said the purge could delete up to 100,000 images or posts in total, when examining social media pages and other websites that are also shot down for diversity, equity and inclusion content.

The official said he was not clear if the database had been finalized.

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth had given the army until Wednesday to remove the content that highlights diversity efforts in its ranks following the executive decree of President Donald Trump ending these programs through the federal government.

The vast majority of Pentagon Purge targets women and minorities, including notable steps made in the army. And it also removes a large number of messages which mention various commemorative months – such as those of blacks and Hispanics and women.

This photo of the air force of black armor and other soil members on the ground passing through the formation at Chatute Field, ill., During the Second World War, the type of photo is marked for the suppression by the Pentagon in its eradication of (Photo: US Air Force via AP))

But an examination of the database also highlights the massive confusion between agencies on how to comply with the radical order of Trump.

In some cases, the photos seemed to be reported for the withdrawal simply because their file included the word “gay”, including the members of the service with this family name and an image of the B-29 Enola plane, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, in Japan, during the Second World War.

Several photos of an army engineers dredging in California were marked for suppression, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the gay surname.

A photo of the biologists of the army body was on the list, apparently because it mentioned that they recorded data on fish – including their weight, size, their hatch and gender.

In addition, some photos of the aviators of Tuskegee, the first black military pilots in the country which served in a segregated unity of the Second World War, have been listed in the database, but they can probably be protected due to historical content.

THE Aviation Briefly deleted new recruit training courses which included videos of Tuskegee aviators shortly after Trump’s order. This attracted the anger of the White House to the “malicious conformity”, and the Air Force quickly reversed the withdrawal.

Many images listed in the database have already been deleted. Others were still visible on Thursday, and it is not clear if they will be withdrawn at one point or are allowed to stay, including images with historical meaning such as those of the aviators of Tuskegee.

It was not immediately clear if the deleted images will be stored in a protective manner somewhere or simply ransacked.

Asked on the database, Pentagon spokesperson John Ulyot said in a press release: “We are satisfied with rapid compliance through the department, the directive deleting the content of all platforms. In the rare cases where the content is deleted which is out of the clearly described scope of the directive, we instruct the components accordingly. »»

He noted that Hegseth said that “Dei is dead” and that efforts to put a group in front of another through programs to erud the camaraderie and threaten the execution of the mission.

This photo of the Marine's body shows the recipient of the PFC Second World War Medal of Honor. Harold Gonsalves in another marked image for blocking by the Trump administration — This photo of the Marine’s body shows the recipient of the PFC Second World War Medal of Honor. Harold Gonsalves in another marked image for blocking by the Trump administration (Photo: US Marine Body via AP))

In some cases, the withdrawal was partial.

The main page of an article entitled “Month in the history of women: the fully female crew supports the combatants” has been deleted. But at least one of the photos of this collection on a fully female C-17 team could still be accessible.

A stroke of the body of the army engineers entitled “The pioneer of engineering remembers during the month in the history of blacks” has been abolished.

Other photos reported in the database but still visible on Thursday included images of the women’s second air world and one of the United States, Colonel Jeannie Leavitt, the first pilot of hunters in the country.

It was also still visible an image of PFC then. Christina Fuentes Montenegro becoming one of the first three women to graduate from the infantry training battalion of the Marine Corps and an image of the recipient of the medal of honor of the Second World War of the Marine Corps PFC. Harold Gonsalves.

The 26,000 images database has been created to comply with federal archive laws, so if the services are questioned in the future, they can show how they comply with the law, said the US official. But it can be difficult to ensure that the content was archived because the responsibility of ensuring that each image was preserved was the responsibility of each individual unit.

In many cases, workers take screenshots of the marked pages for withdrawal, but it would be difficult to restore them if the decision was made to do so in the future, according to another civil servant, who, like the others, spoke of anonymity to provide additional details that were not public.

An official of the Marine Corps said that each of his images in the database “is deleted or would be deleted”.

Marines move on the directive as quickly as possible, but as for the rest of the soldiers, very few civilian employees or Pentagon entrepreneurs can withdraw the content, said the official.

In the Marine Corps, a single civil of defense is available to do the work. The Marine Corps estimates that the person has identified at least 10,000 images for deletion – and this does not have more than 1,600 social media sites that have not yet been examined.

The marine manager said that the service crosses each site and obtains new administrative privileges so that he can make the changes.

On February 26, the Pentagon ordered all military services to spend countless hours to contact websites, photos, press articles and videos to delete all the mentions that “promoted diversity, equity and inclusion”.

If they could not do it on Wednesday, they were told to “temporarily withdraw from the public display”, any content published during the four years of the Biden administration.