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virtualpender · 03-05-09, 12:16 AM

The ending of this story is that Sam Dealey, Captain of the HARDER, sank this destroyer in April 1944. This Japanese officer in this story rescued men from DD-225. HARDER was sunk August 1944 by that vessel's sister ship DD-224 (captured as a prize and in service with the IJN as PB-102).

Sad irony.

And as someone who took the oral history of several former POW's held by the Japanese during WWII, this one act of mercy, or a thousand like it, do nothing to erase or minimize the inhuman manner in which the Japanese treated their prisoners.

03-05-09, 12:16 AM	#6
virtualpender Sonar Guy Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 381 Downloads: 281 Uploads: 0	The ending of this story is that Sam Dealey, Captain of the HARDER, sank this destroyer in April 1944. This Japanese officer in this story rescued men from DD-225. HARDER was sunk August 1944 by that vessel's sister ship DD-224 (captured as a prize and in service with the IJN as PB-102). Sad irony. And as someone who took the oral history of several former POW's held by the Japanese during WWII, this one act of mercy, or a thousand like it, do nothing to erase or minimize the inhuman manner in which the Japanese treated their prisoners.