[Cannoneer No. 4]

Horrifying. There is a part in there about Okinawan mud mixed with blood and body parts that made me ill.

I didn't include the Japanese because nearly all of them that our guys went medieval on were soldiers and sailors.

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I didn't include the Japanese because nearly all of them that our guys went medieval on were soldiers and sailors.

Talk to those who were there through that war's last 18 months, and I think you'll find that they found very little to distinguish between civilian and military through that period. But note that in many instances, as on Okinawa and Tinian, the American Marines who took no chances were still more benign than the Japanese military was to their own people.

The lowest estimate of the number of civilians killed on Okinawa was 42,000. And before it was over, More people had died during the Battle for Okinawa than all those later killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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