Lifeboats

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by applesthecat

We clearly see men in the water being shot at. I don't know why you insist in arguing that it could be something else, when we see a man being shot in the water, and other sailors shooting hand held guns into the water. We even see bullet splashes near the men. Are you going to suggest that those splashes could be bird droppings? This is what convoluted means. In order to remain in denial, one needs to resort to ever more convoluted reasoning to explain away what is actually happening.

As someone who has served in the US Navy, you may not want to admit that this took place, and more than once. Morton gunned down men in the water. It is a well documented incident. And he was not punished for it because at the time, shooting at Japanese survivors was not considered a war crime especially if one of them was stupid enough to fire a bullet from a raft at a US ship. This also explains why this massacre was allowed to be filmed. At the time, this was not illegal.

I think the point that Steve is making (and I assume you are missing) is that yes you can see the men being shot at, and yes in other scenes you can see men shooting. What you can't see however, is the men on the sub shooting at the men in the water all in one scene.

At no point is Steve denying that this happened , he is however pointing out that the film may have been edited to imply the massacare, and because of the way it's cut it doesn't actually show it all in one scene.

Am I right Steve?

Now back to my popcorn - nom, nom, nom.