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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
Resurecting old thread here, since this discussion could be interesting, and it is in-topic: do you guys know this video...
... which appears to show american sub crewmen shooting at a japanese drifter (which seems to kill himself with a grenade)?
Is it bogus? the video is all edited-out, it's hard to beleive videos like these.
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Wow. From some of the shot angles they seem like stock footage, and it seems edited strangely too. The only consistent one seems to be where the sailor fires the M1928 Thompson. Besides that, you can see to the right of the Japanese you can see a guy with a M1911. Maybe it's taken away from context, and the Japanese was trying to throw his grenade into the submarine. In that situation, you have to shoot the guy. You can't let him risk your whole crew just to say "we can't kill him he's just a shipwrecked guy". But also at those distance (seems like less than 50M) it would be easy to kill him. Very interesting video, though. I guess that happened a lot in the Pacific.