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"The orders, due to the many cases of suicidal attacks with the use of explosives or hand grenades, were "to avoid and prevent with any means" the approaching to the US ships of shipwrecked Japanese sailors."
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This is correct and what I meant by policy. At the time, because of previous incidents of Japanese survivors fighting to the bitter end, the US Navy allowed the massacre of all survivors in the water. Sailor Steve is trying to say that what the video shows may not be that at all. But this is exactly what we are seeing. We are seeing this policy in action.