The song they whistle is “Colonel Bogey’s March”. There were rather rude lyrics that made the rounds during WWII (about the , ahem, anatomy of some notable Nazis). It only makes their whistling of it even better.
btw - Colonel Bogey was the “ghost” golfer one was always playing against. Golfers later got so good they had to change the goal to “par” (one less than the proverbial bogey).
“The Colonel Bogey March’’.
Yeah, that is a cool tune.
The Japs however were some brutal bastards.
I saw stats once that said 1% of Allied prisoners held captive by the Germans died in captivity.
The figure for the Japanese and Allied deaths in Japanese captivity was around 36%.
Hitler... has only good one b*ll....
And so on....