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Originally Posted by tomoose
....on whether you're trying to play realistically or not. U.S. and the other allies abided by the Geneva Convention (as did Germany and I believe Japan) ergo shooting of non-combatants (which includes survivors in a lifeboat) was/is considered a criminal act (aka: murder).
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Yet a US submarine captain killed a ****load of lifeboats from a japanese ship he snuk, afterwards it turned out many of the people they killed were INDIAN P.O.W.s being transported by the Japanese, afaik the Captain NEVER ever faced charges for warcrimes etc for this occurence.
For sources, I can't remember, it was a post on this forum back when SH4 first came out..
Edit: After some searching I found it,
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/subs/SS-238.html
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The second target headed for her was Fukuei Maru #2. Wahoo fired two bow tubes "down the throat". The second torpedo hit, but Fukuei Maru #2 kept coming and forced the submarine forcing it a hard left turn full speed to avoid being rammed. Returning to periscope depth, Wahoo observed the first target had sunk, the second target was still moving, evidently with steering trouble; and the transport, Buyo Maru, was stopped but still afloat. Wahoo headed for the transport and fired a bow tube; the torpedo passed directly under the middle of the ship but failed to explode. She then fired another torpedo which headed right for the stack and blew her apart her midships. The submarine then headed for the crippled second target which had joined with a tanker. Wahoo let these two ships escape, while she surfaced to charge her batteries and destroy the estimated twenty lifeboats now in the water.
For your informatin, the Buyo Maru was transporting Indian P.O.W.s, and twice as many Indian P.O.Ws was killed as Japanese.
So, you still gonna claim that the US submarines abided by the Geneva Convention? What about the bombings of German cities during WW2? There were lots of civilian casualties there too, my end point is that in a worldwar, I doubt anyone truly gives a **** about the Geneva Convention, sad as it is.