Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Jima movie showed a Marine killing two prisoners who surrendered just because he didn’t want to stick around on guard duty.
It’s not something that I encountered in the book I read about the battle for the island.
I did read about a Japanese soldier who walked out to the men from a cave, didn’t give up but did talk to them for about half an hour, and then they noticed he was wired to the cave. He was killed without further death.
I also read that there were Marines of Japanese ancestry who helped talk the enemy into surrendering.
When our government and our entertainers say “we tortured prisoners”, they aren’t thinking of waterboarding and Barney tapes. They are taking Hunter S. Thompson at his word at ESPN where he wrote that what he saw (in the Abu Ghraib photos) was WORSE than the most horrific NAZI atrocities. Words mean things and the hyperbole used by the Left planted an image in their mind that emboldened them against us. The release of the Abu Ghraib photos (which did NOT lead the prosecution of those responsible, they were already under criminal prosecution) served as gasoline to make the area unstable, flood jihadists in from other countries, and soured stateside support for the war in Iraq.
Bull Shiite.
Those crazy bastards, to a man, believe we kill babies and drink their blood before we go into battle.
This new DiFi report and all previous reports serve only the rabid interests of THE COMMUNISTS and AMERICA HATERS in the USA.
I remember reading something about one of the island battles, if not Iwo, then Guadalcanal or similar. If prisoners showed up, an officer would tell one of his men to “take them to the rear,” which meant get them out of earshot and shoot them.
There was a reason the Japanese garrison would start out with 20,000 troops and at the end there would be a literal handful of survivors.
Well that's just not right.