Did they use them for human shield?
My grandmother’s closest friend was an Army Nurse in Manilla when WWII began, she went to Corregidor when Manilla fell and spent 2-1/2 years in a (Bataan) POW camp. She wrote a book about her experience there. She retired a Lt. Col. at the time very unusual for Women in the Army. Her husband was also an officer and captive of the Japanese, he was being transported back to the Mainland in Japan and one of our planes sank the ship he was on.
ISIS deserves the most brutal of ends.
They used Okinawan citizens as human shields during the battle.