Posted on 04/04/2002 8:51:39 AM PST by SkyPilot
JAPANESE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS REVEALED
Tokyo, 31 August 1945 ...Stars and Stripes
Horrific details of atrocities carried out by Japanese doctors are emerging as Allied PoWs are released. Prisoners have been subjected to vivisection. Others have been used as human guinea-pigs and injected with acid, inoculated with fatal diseases, or frozen at minus six degrees Fahrenheit (-20 C).
Eight U.S. airman shot down after B-29 raids in May died in vivisection experiments carried out by Professor Fukujior at Kyushu University. One PoWs stomach was removed, and an artery cut to see how long it was before he died.
Many of the atrocities have been at Japan's top-secret bacteriological warfare unit 731 at Harblin, in Manchuria. Prisoners were inoculated with anthrax, typhoid and cholera to test germ potency. Others have been boiled or dehydrated to death. Experiments included prolonged exposure to X-rays and prisoners subjected to a pressure chamber where the blood was forced out of their skin as they died in agony.
PoWs fear that 731's commander, Shiro Ishii, will escape prosecution in return for turning over germ warfare data to the U.S. Two released U.S. doctors also revealed today how they were made to prepare lethal acid-based solutions for Japanese doctors to inject into U.S. PoWs at a Tokyo hospital.
Germans and Italians were put in Internment Camps during WW II. The entire Italian population on the West Coast were placed on strict curfew until 1943. Italian- Americans whose occupations were considered a danger to the war effort had had their property confiscated and their jobs curtailed.
While The DiMaggio brothers were serving in Europe , their father a commercial fisherman, had his boat taken by the US Government . It was never returned.
Italian Americans had more men in the Armed Services during WW II, based on their percentage of the population, than any other ethnic group.
Italian-Americans have never asked for reparations, nor do they intend to.
Hence the term at the time: "Sneaky Bastards"
One of those questions you just can't ask in PC society is how many actual Japanese spys were interred in WWII. Bet it was more then one.
There was anger at the Japanese, as there was toward Middle Easterners in the immediate aftermath of 9-11. There was concern that the Japajnese might be subject to retribution.
Unfortunately that's just what happened.
Only the first 3 words you typed above are correct.
the japanese were LUCKY to be in those camps. especially when the stories of their brutal ways were finally known here as i'd bet a lot of the relatives and loved ones felt pure hate for them and a jap would have to have been crazy or a fool to be wandering around the country at that time.
i know the story of the 442nd 'go for broke' outfit in europe and that they were the most decorated in the war.
but even that probably wouldn't sway anyone who was a victim of their bloodlust brothers in the far east.
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