1 posted on
12/12/2001 6:49:58 PM PST by
Hopalong
To: super175
At your service, sir.
Best regards. S&W R.I.P.
2 posted on
12/12/2001 6:50:53 PM PST by
Hopalong
To: Hopalong
Yamashita was executed for delaying McArthur's triumphal return to Manilla, for making McArthur look bad in his final battle of WWII, and for humiliating the British in Malaya and Singapore. Compared to his Japanese peers in command, Yamashita was practically a saint. At Singapore, after a massacre of British staff at a hospital, he went to the hospital and apoligized for the killings. When you consider that much of Japan still doesn't admit that massacres occurred in the war, his action was fairly amazing for the time.
3 posted on
12/12/2001 7:57:51 PM PST by
LenS
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