In “Flyboys” by James Bradley, he writes that Japanese troops would amputate the limbs of captured American flyers keeping them alive over several days to put on the menu.
Otherwise the meat would spoil.
G.H.W. Bush was very, very lucky to have been rescued by the sub “Finback”.
I got this from one of the reviews (Amazon):
“This book confused me. It’s not that the book was difficult to read; in fact, it’s a very easy read. The problem with the book is that rather than just telling the story of the flyers, the author delves into a litany of moral equivalence and cultural relativism to make the barbaric conduct of the Japanese seem to be no different from that of the United States. Indeed, a book which one would think to be a sympathetic portrayal of pilots who fought, died and were brutally killed by the Japanese seems to turn the concept on its head. In the first 107 pages, he effectively blames the US for `ethnically cleansing’ the Native Americans, stealing half of Mexico and then greedily using gunboat diplomacy to open up Japan to trade while we invaded an uninhabited island named Chichi Jima, where the `Flyboys’ fought in WWII. In 1862 when Japan’s first steam ship seized Chichi Jima back, the author notes sagely, that the Japanese had `learned their lessons [of conquest] well.” In other words, it’s our fault became militaristic “
Do you agree with this?