[skeeter]

We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different.

No, dummy. We annihilated them because A) they warred on us first, and B) they insisted upon it.

The marines learned very early, at the battle of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal, that treating Japanese soldiers by the rules of war very often had fatal consequences.

[Charlespg]

James Bradley mentioned a incident in his book where the Japanese lured a group of medics and a few marines ashore under the pretext of being cut off and wanting to surrender.

The Japanese butchered them

wonder if steven spielberg will mention that.

[Poe White Trash]

I'm guessing that Hanks believes that the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th 1941.

He's swallowed the Blutarskian school of WWII revisionism hook, line and sinker.

Which would make the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy just innocent bystanders, don't ya know...