To get back to the topic, look at the Battle of the Bismark Sea. All those troop transports sunk, and the fliers didn't just leave them to their fate in the water. They strafed the Japanese troops in the water until there was nothing left moving.
The Military Channel ran the 2 part program called, Hell in the Pacific just this last weekend. And when you hear how the American and English guys talked about their opponents, whewwwwwwwwwwwwww. There was definitely no love loss there. Even in the island fighting, they talked about the "no prisoner" attitude, and showed some graphic film of wounded soldiers getting the business. There was even one fellow who said they were so short of intellegence, that there was an offer to all the men fighting, that who ever brought back a pow, they would get a 2 week furlough. As soon as they had enough pow's, the Marines went back to the no prisoners approach.
A good eye opener about the Pacific.
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A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
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