That’s an interesting historical context you don’t hear often in these articles.
“”””That’s an interesting historical context you don’t hear often in these articles.””””
You have those figures in post 11, and there are many more figures.
“hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and civilian internees were also scheduled to be executed by the Japanese. Beginning in the summer of 1944, Japanese leaders issued a series of directives to prison camp commandants that all prisoners were to be “liquidated” when Allied troops approached the camps.”
Invading Japan
“Depending on the scope and context, casualty estimates for American forces ranged from 220,000 to several million, and estimates of Japanese military and civilian casualties ran from the millions to the tens of millions. “
Many of us here had fathers involved in this, and after years of Japanese horrors and the murder of millions and millions of civilians and POWs while laughing and torturing, the rest of the world was in no mood to die trying to be nice to the Japs.