#4 yes they resorted to that a fact which infuriated our troops along with torturing them so others could hear, the chances of a IJA soldier being taken back alive by the ausie troops was very slender indeed not that they were tied to a tree and bayoneted but I dare say a mag or two would have sufficed.
I used to know some vets whom would not talk to a Japaneseicon person or asian for that matter.

Get a book called "The Knights of Bushido" its all there in every gory detail from chemical experiments, killing allied air crew, eating livers extracted from living patients, vivi sections on living persons tied down till they died with no anesthetic on and on.............
Its stable mate is "The scourge of the Swastika" both books are by Lord Russel of Liverpool
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