It is bull---- someone just took some videos from some submariners pooping(er popping but that is so funny I will leave it) some rounds off for practice/fun and then took the clip of a Japanese pilot from a completely different clip to make it look like they shot him.The pilot who blows himself up with the hand grenade that was clearly filmed from a larger vessel than a sub.Someplace I have seen the true footage they where trying to save the guy and when they that he had the grenade they started to fire on him but there intent was to help the pilot he forced their hand.Someplace there is footage of the sub guys with the Tommy and BAR in the true footage they a killing only water.
The truth is that many subs (US Navy) actually would take POWs if they found Japanese willing to be picked(of course with great caution) you could gather a lot of good intel from these people.It was also common to find refugees on the water trying to get away form Japanese occupied areas he there is a picture out there of the Wahoo aiding one of these boats.The idea that US Navy subs went around killing Japanese in the water is simply not true for the most part.
Sorry it just really pisses me off this kind of thing granted in wars men on all sides do bad things but it is never our policy unlike the then Japanese military who killed and raped thousands of Chinese and brutally treated their POWs so and so forth.
I bought a book from a former US Army solider about his time in the Batan Death March and being a POW called "Hells Guest" that was selling his book at the USS Alabama park in Mobile a few years back While they where being marched along a Filipino woman who was pregnant came up to give an American water for this a Japanese solider killed the American and cut the woman stomach open and the baby inside they then told the little girl to walk away when she did they shot her in the back but everyone ignores the clearly documented horrors that the Japanese military did by and large as standard operating procedure.I am not saying that all WWII era Japanese people and even soldiers where bad but such things where not frowned upon in the slightest.
Japanese are officially taught a complete lie about WWII and learn nothing about what their government did to the Chinese,Koreans and other Asian people they also learn nothing about how they treated POWs they learn a lie in their favor that make the US look bad.I know this because one of my friends his wife is an Okinawan Japanese she is a truly a Ryukian but they go to Japanese schools and are Japaneses citizens they don't really trust mainland Japanese and that goes way back to ancient times.In the end the Japanese reaped what they had sown in the 20's,30's,and 40's at the end of the war.
Last edited by Stealhead; 05-11-11 at 10:41 PM.
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