If that is true, why don’t the British and French pay for US pensions? They honor our dead and give us airspace, but as far as I know, my uncles and grandfather got no check in British pounds or Euros, or even French francs, prior to the conversion...
The Japanese did the invading, why not tax them with war reparations?
Japan paid reparations - 1 trillion, 30 billion yen, plus individual amounts to countries that did not agree to collective remuneration.
The British pay (or paid) pensions for US citizens who fought in Brit units, and have since the war ended. We didn’t do the same for Filipinos.