War is hell.
In Yeager's book, he tells about missions where they went down and shot every car, horse, bike, cow, hog, person, boat or bus that they could find in their assigned area. He said they didn't like doing those missions and if that's how they are going to do things, they damn sure better win the war.
They were probably just peasant fishermen, but...the argument could be (and was) made at the time they were providing fish to dry and stick in rice balls for the front line troops. When total war comes, everyone gets it.
Old Chuck sure had the right stuff. In spades. We don’t make them like that any more.