dailymail.co.uk — The Japanese Navy sank Allied merchant and Red Cross vessels, then murdered survivors floating in the sea or in lifeboats. Naval landing parties rounded up civilians then raped and massacred them. Some were fed to sharks. Others were killed by sledge-hammer, bayonet, beheading, hanging, drowning, burying alive, burning or crucifixion.
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nihiliteNov 4, 2007
mojo, you have it wrong. after nagasaki was bombed the japanese had signaled a willingness to negotiate but the US would not grant them guarantees for "immunity" for their emperor (Hirohito). they had NOT surrendered. they were still telling their *citizens* (not just soldiers, but citizens) to fight to the death against the Allies.
thecatcantalkNov 5, 2007
The "infected blankets" thing happened once; six people died. The Indians kept slaves, practiced cannibalism and genocide against one another, routinely tortured to death their prisoners of war, treated women like brood mares, and some thought that human sacrifice was a good way to thank their Gods for one's daily bread. So let's just drop the "noble savage" bulls**t, shan't we? I am so over all this "white guilt" garbage I heard in college. The war's over, they lost. Suck it up.
thecatcantalkNov 5, 2007
That's like the fourth semen/seamen joke in this thread. He's so gay, he joined the Navy.
thecatcantalkNov 5, 2007
Ye hao! lmao
fongobongoNov 11, 2007
Hey assh**e, before you start attacking me personally why don't you drink a big cup of American foreign politics 101. I'm assuming you're american, judging by your personal attack and assh**e demeanor. You guys are the worst perpetrators around when it comes to human rights. Let's go back in time for a second, to the Reagan administration and their support for terror organizations in Latin America, as well as the brutal installment of dictators like Pinochet. You guys are responsible for the murders of millions. Lets talk about Vietnam, agent orange? Massacre of Vietnamese civilans. f**k, there is just way too much to talk about when it comes to American atrocities. So sonny next time before you go on your China-bashing rant why don't you learn a little more about American policy abroad. You guys definitely have a lot more blood on your hands than the Chinese. Don't think so, try traveling around the world stating the fact that you're American, see how many people will welcome you warmly. f**ken assh**e.
tientsin45Mar 11, 2009
The invasion of Okinawa, and the casualties suffered by the US, were but a precursor of what would have occurred should Operation Olympic been executed on southern Kyushu in the fall of 1945, and Operation Coronet been conducted over the black sands of the beaches between the Isu and Bosu peninsulas. My division was being reconstituted on the northern end of Okinawa after the island was secured in June of 1945. We were scheduled for Coronet in the coming spring, and I'd guess that very few of us were making any postwar plans. Instead, when the war ended, we were among the 60,000 Marines who landed in North China to attempt to keep Chiang Kai Shek in control of that vital area. I personally did not arrive in Japan until August 1950 when I was taken from the Pusan Perimeter in Korea by a Danish hospital ship (Jutlandia) to the Yokosuka Naval Hospital. Talking to many Japanese during that hospitalization, and later in 1955-1956 when stationed in Japan convinced me that should we have landed in 1945 as scheduled the casualties among civilian Japanese would have greatly exceeded anything that they had suffered before from aerial bombardment, including the two atomic bombs. I see a lot of respondents to this thread are talking theory. What I've just written above are the facts of the case. The saddest outcome of the Pacific War is that to this day Japan refuses to recognize that when it came to elimination of the citizens of a foreign nation their brutal behaviors exceeded anything else that occurred during that tragic war.