[Retain Mike]

I had not thought about the civilians on that day until I read this article.

I didn't post the URL, because the article was on the member side, so I copied it entirely.

[nickedknack]

Interesting perspective. Everyone should remember that the Japanese have never formally apologized for the manifold war crimes & atrocities they committed against the Allies and their Asian neighbors before and during WWII. The genocidal actions are glossed over in their school texts, and there are many in Japan, younger generations included, who feel they did nothing wrong because they were forced into war by the U.S. All bullsh*t, of course.

[null and void]

Thanks.

[jmacusa]

The actor Jason Robards(deceased) was a radio man 3rd.class on the U.S.S. Helena and a past president of The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.

[GreyFriar]

ping for later

[Oatka]

About 20 years ago, I read where the libs in Seattle got together and set up a monument to a 12-year-old Japanese girl who was killed when we bombed Hiroshima. Naturally, the opening day was done on the anniversary of the bomb dropping. There was a really weepy “Bad America” tone to the whole article, trying to lay a guilt trip on the rest of us.

I wrote the reporter and asked her when they were going to erect a monument to a 12-year-old Hawaiian girl who was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack.

She wrote back that “she was unaware there were any civilian casualties at Pearl Harbor.”

So help me, I wanted to bang my head against the monitor.

[MasterGunner01]

Speaking of Japanese atrocities, we need to educate Japan [and America] about Imperial Army Special Unit 731. This unit was based in Manchuko (Manchuria) and was run by a Col. Ishi. Unit 731 was dedicated to chemical and biological warfare. It weaponized plague and tested it on prisoners and the Chinese. Civilian and allied POWs (called “logs”) were subject for these experiments. Some unlucky prisoners were dissected while alive to observe the progress of the diseases.

When the war ended, Gen. MacArthur gave Col. Ishi and is butches a pass for being tried as war criminals as long as all his data was turned over to the US Army's Chemical warfare Corps.

Also, as the war ended, Tokyo sent all POW camps a message to kill all their prisoners before the allied armies could liberate them. The Great Raid [30 January 1945] on the POW camp at Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippines was conducted by the 6th Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas. The raid liberated 522 prisoners, including Bataan Death March prisoners. Only 2 Rangers were killed, 4 Rangers wounded, and 2 prisoners died from complications of their captivity. Between 530 to 1,000 Imperial troops were killed and 4 tanks knocked out. The 2005 movie, The Great Raid, faithfully documents this operation.

[pfflier]

There is another story about a dockyard crane operator who kept moving his large shipyard crane back and forth to try to interfere with the torpedo attacks.

That was a day for heroes.