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Marines and 6 Japanese Prisoners Landing Craft Iwo Jima
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Marines and 6 Japanese Prisoners Landing Craft Iwo Jima
Question them then throw 'em overboard.... maybe they can swim home.
I hope that is not a G I under the rain cape if it is then their long journey is over.
Nah, that's what the Japanese did at Midway. We don't operate that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob seijas
Bob
Maybe we should have... read O'Reilly's Killing the Rising Sun. We already knew what they were like, but now the whole world does.
Like what they did to the Australian troops at Sandakan saying "Nippon very sorry but men must die", or for your troops the Baatan death march.......
When you read Flyboys by James Bradley, the story of the taking of Chichi Jima and the loss of the airmen who parachuted into the lagoon after their planes were shot down, you also get an idea of the barbarity of the Imperial Japanese Army that is extremely repellent.
Bob
On the other hand my grandfather was on a hospital ship boarded by the ijn. They searched the ship for weapons and when they found none the officer in charge of the boarding party walked into his ward room, came to attention and saluted the ward as they had been "honourably wounded".
He put it down to the ijn being modeled on and having trained with the rn. where the army did the same with the prussian? army.
It is all there in this book The Knights of Bushido By Lord Russell of Liverpool get the book read it then you will get an insight into what they really did I only read the book once cover to cover and that was enough for me I felt sick to the stomach and here's me who worked on a beef slaughter floor & boning room.
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japan. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).
Thousands of men, women and children interred at prisoner of war camps were subjected to vivisection, often without anesthesia and usually ending with the death of the victim. Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Researchers performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.
Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body. Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen, then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.
Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied. Prisoners were also repeatedly subject to rape by guards
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Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[11] Others that Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[12] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[11] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as communist propaganda.