17-10-12 Garand Picture of the Day

[rcathey]

...and why so few Japs got taken as prisoners of war.

A lot of the biographies from the Pacific theater talk about this as self preservation. Some say it with a twinge of personal distaste for the enemy as a whole but for the most part it's more of a "I know what kind of crap they try to pull when 'surrendering' so they're not getting the chance!"
Blowing up grenades once they get close to their captors, etc.