17-018 Garand Picture of the Day - Iwo Jima

[Mark in Rochester]

Marines and 6 Japanese Prisoners Landing Craft Iwo Jima

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[Bob Seijas]

Question them then throw 'em overboard.... maybe they can swim home.

[Bob Womack]

Question them then throw 'em overboard.... maybe they can swim home.

Nah, that's what the Japanese did at Midway. We don't operate that way.

Bob

[CINDERS]

I hope that is not a G I under the rain cape if it is then their long journey is over.

[Bob Seijas]

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.

[CINDERS]

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.......

[Mark in Rochester]

[Bob Womack]

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

[henry r]

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.

[CINDERS]

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.