[Niuhuru]

” the game Japanese soldiers would play with babies in China, the Philippines and elsewhere, by throwing them up in the air and trying to skewer them with the bayonet on their rifle.”

I remember hearing they practiced their swordsmanship on the POWS, but this is new to me.

[skeeter]

I've heard that the Japanese singled out redheaded allied POWs for especially brutal treatment. You didn't stand much of a chance for survival if you had the wrong colored hair.

Another macabre bit of WWII trivia.

[Mase]

You need to read The Rape of Nanking. This was just one of many horrific things the Japanese were capable of. I had two uncles fight their was through the Pacific in WWII. Like all my uncles, they never talked much about the war after it was over. They did talk more about it to my father just before they died and much of what they talked about focused on Japanese atrocities.

Reading the words of Japanese soldiers who participated in these acts is sickening but a must for anyone with an interest in WWII. Here is just a sampling: Link