As I recall, there was an instance of American and Japanese
troops in a temporary truce during some situation in
the Philippines, where troops of both sides were marching
down opposite sides of the same street...
Any one remember this?
Sounds interesting, but not familiar. Probably happened during the later years — during the Japanese taking of the P’s they just kept on the attack all the time, and were under orders to ignore white flags. BTW, we went too easy on the bastards. Normally I’d be cranked about the Demwit administration’s ignorant handing-over of some Japanese islands (in addition to some islands ceded to Japan by the Russian Empire after that early 20th c war they fought), but it’s difficult to care. I also don’t think they should have been able to keep either Iwo Jima or Okinawa.