[RunningWolf]

I don't know what the policy if any was. But the logistics and realities of the Pacific theater (as far spread out as it were) would drive towards that direction without a policy. We simply did not have the resources for it I would guess though. I mean we were fighting strategic wars with 2 separate forces bent on world domination.

To make a close parallel back to the Pacific theater, 99.999% of the time submariners of any nation did not attempt rescue of the survivors just to expend national resources to house them for the duration of the war.

[ohioWfan]

None of us who did not experience WWII combat situations (or any at all) can fathom the magnitude and horror of that conflict.

But, IMO, to sit here sixty years later and claim to want to launch an investigation into our own military's so-called 'atrocities' on some phony quest for 'truth' is irresponsible.......and appalling.