more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered.
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Posted on 02/11/2022 10:25:43 AM PST by JonPreston
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There were 56 Chinese POW's alive when Japan surrendered.
Not 56 thousand or 56 hundred.
Just 56.
And what they did in Manila shocked even the Nazis.
I lived in Japan. I like the Japanese. Imperial Japan was run by monsters. For decades.
There’s three words that speak volumes about the cruelty of the Japanese during WWII: Bataan Death March. My dad was in the Navy training for the Invasion of Japan. As you might suspect, I thank Harry Truman for giving the order to drop the bombs.
To determine the treatment of frostbite, prisoners were taken outside in freezing weather and left with exposed arms, periodically drenched with water until frozen solid. The arm was later amputated; the doctor would repeat the process on the victim's upper arm to the shoulder. After both arms were gone, the doctors moved on to the legs until only a head and torso remained. The victim was then used for plague and pathogens experiments.
We also let a lot of Germans off the hook because we didn’t want to turn them totally against us after the war. We used them to soften the blow of Communism on Europe.
No, I don’t why we quit searching for Japanese war criminals.
“They were as bad as the Nazis, if not worse.”
The Japanese were far worse to their captured prisoners than the Germans. The Germans actually treated British, American, Canadian prisoners fairly well. The Germans did not treat the Russians nearly as well.
The Japanese were extremely brutal to their prisoners of war.
If George HW Bush hadn't crashed offshore where an American sub could rescue him he would have been executed like every other flyboy on that island.
bttt
Their treatment of prisoners-of-war seemed to have been exemplary then.
https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a03303/?pnum=2 What happened?
Re: 4 - My great uncle was a Marine in the 1st Marine Division. He fought along with his comrades at Okinawa. Ended up with malaria but otherwise unscathed. Talked rarely about those days. He said he did not hate the Japanese because life is too short for that. He kept in contact with many of his Marines, started and ran a business, raised a family and died when he was 85. He always said he felt blessed for everything that he had.
I do, but I cannot state why..... We let the Japanese that ran the medical experimentation escape justice.
On day one the Australian Marines went in and suffered heavy casualties. Pretty much 100%. On day two the US Marines went in and also suffered heavy casualties, but were able to establish a beach head. By the time my father landed it was relatively safe. However, the beach was completely covered in bodies of the Marines that had fallen the previous two days. He stated that he had to walk on the bodies of all those marines. That they covered the sand. They did not have a choice.
My father was a heavy equipment operator. They then brought in bulldozers and dug big pits to bury all the bodies.
Plus, MacArthur did not want those in the picture when he came ashore.
Now, there was a quay there that they could pull up a ship/landing craft to. However, MacArthur did not think it would look as dramatic if he just stepped off the boat onto the pier. So, he had them bring the landing craft up to the beach and he waded ashore to give his famous speech.
“I have returned”
Dad said Dug Out Doug was a great leader, but a tremendous primadonna and self promoter.
Bttt.
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My uncle was in the Americal Division in the Phillipines. My cousins said that he never talked about his experiences. He hated the Japanese for the rest of his life. My father served on a minesweeper off Okinawa. His unit would have been fishing mines out of Tokyo Bay if the atomic bombs hadn’t been dropped. A classmate in grad school, from Japan, asked me my thoughts about the atomic bombs. I said that millions of Americans would not exist if they hadn’t been dropped. To my own point, in a terrible way, and for the kind of person he was, my father was worth more than all who had to die from those weapons if that meant that he came home alive.
Sort of like the democrats of today. For example, they demand the right to dismember and murder babies.
His name is Walter Filipek and this is a link to the entire interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjDap8orszk
After the kids were asleep, if a former WW2 Veteran came over they would stay up late talking. Dad had a close friend who was in the Navy and on a ship that was sunk by a suicide plane.
I once say an explanation of why the Japanese soldiers were as inhumane as they were. It comes down to conditioning and culture. Still the war crimes committed were unspeakable and common enough that most GI’s who had fighting contact really felt the Japanese soldiers must be killed to the last man.
They’re lucky we occupied them and didn’t let the Chinese give payback.
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They were lucky the Chinese saw Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and thought Americans did good work, else the Chinese planed to exterminate them as a race.
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Interesting factoid : many Japanese families resisted being conscripted - the estimate I read somewhere was 20,000 were murdered for that act against the Emperor
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