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Originally Posted by jonmar
I remember seeing a documentary where they actually showed a Japanese survivor in the water pulling the pin off a grenade and blowing himself up. It was pretty rough to watch.
There was another documentary with footage of American soldiers approaching Japanese civilians and they showed a mother holding a baby jump off a cliff because of the horror stories they'd been told about the American troops by their propaganda.
Sorry for getting off topic. To reply to the OP yeah I definitely would say it was a war crime. GoldenRivet's analogy of shooting a man in a parachute was spot on.
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Actually you are allowed by the laws of land warfare at the time to shoot paratroopers while in their chutes. You are not however, allowed to shoot aircrewman who are attempting to escape a downed aircraft in their chutes. The diffirence is one is a combatant while in his chute and the other isnt.