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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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It just so happens that, not only have I seen this video, and once almost believed it, I have since accumulated quite a collection of WWII Documentaries on DVD. I have, in it's entirety, the actual footage of that Japanese sailor blowing himself up with a hand grenade. I also have some of the other sections of that footage in it's entirety. In the actual footage, no U.S. sailor is shooting at, or attempting to shoot at him. They
were trying earnestly to rescue him. He just blew himself up in the long standing (well documented), time honored, tradition of the Japanese soldier/sailor whose sacred belief would be to die, rather than be taken prisoner.
That YouTube video is a heavily doctored video, spliced and pieced together in order to deceive. The saddest part of all is that (as we've seen) there are those who will automatically believe such rubbish (probably due to a predisposition) simply because some unknown entity/factor posted it on the web. IMO, it just goes to show one of the susceptibilities that can occur when History is forgotten. Then, we just believe what anyone tells us because we don't know (the truth) otherwise.
