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To: SAMWolf
On October 7, 1943, Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara, then a captain and commander of Japanese forces on Wake Island, ordered the execution of the 98 prisoners of war without trial. The POWs were marched to a northern beach, blindfolded, and shot. [One POW managed to elude execution, was hunted down, and was executed with a sword by Sakaibara himself.]

I would have killed him 98 times.

Sakaibara got off easy.

101 posted on 12/21/2003 3:11:53 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
Sakaibara got off easy

Yeah, some people you wish you could execute more than once.

103 posted on 12/21/2003 9:41:13 PM PST by SAMWolf (Support your local medical examiner: die strangely!)
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