[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.

[skeeter]

And that many of the most sadistic prison camp guards weren't Japanese at all, but Korean.

Koreans were treated as second class citizens by the Japanese & played out their suppressed aggressions on POWs.

[Niuhuru]

Jeez. Each time I hear about how civilized the Japanese are compared to us ‘barbarian’ Americans, I’ll remind them of Bataan. I heard once that sometimes the Japanese scientists would strap a soldier over growing bamboo and watch as it grew through the soldier.