Just heard about this story this year.
Really fascinating. Was a village secret until 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Katsuyama_killing_incident
Wow. Fascinating.
Interesting - there were still stories about some of the savagery of our own troops to the locals right after the war going around twenty years later when I was there - one old sergeant told of a few GI’s taking “target practice” by trying to shoot the babies off of their backs where the local women carried them - sickening if true, but again that far along, how much was rumor, myth, distortion is hard to know - hopefully all of it....
I was on Okinawa when that story came out and they found the bodies. Pretty neat.
Thanks for link. Never read about this incident before...
Sounds like another McElroy/Skidmore Mo. situation that just got so untenable that the local Islanders had to take matters into their own hands and deal with the scumbags. I see no reason why any of them should feel guilty at all!