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Title: 1945 US SUBMARINE: No Mercy for Shipwrecked Japanese
Source: YouTube
URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6gFQH54k0M&feature=related
Published: Jul 1, 1945
Author: UnknownWWIIinColor
Post Date: 2009-07-01 01:27:17 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 138
Comments: 2

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1945. A US Navy submarine in action in the Pacific. The orders, due to the many cases of suicidal attacks with the use of explosives or hand grenades, were "to avoid and prevent with any means" the approacing to the US ships of shipwrecked Japanese sailors. Outstanding US SIgnal Corps 16mm color film

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

I don't believe that Japanese sailors wanted to die any more than the reluctant Kamikaze pilots who screamed protests into their radios as they piloted their planes into American ships.

The simple fact is a US sub that picked up survivors was out of action until the prisoners could be off loaded, and the US wanted those subs to sink as much enemy tonnage as possible, not give courtesy rides to enemy survivors.

I suppose turning a BAR or a Thompson on some poor bastard floating in the sea was just doing one's duty then, which helps to explain why the US Govt went to such lengths to vilify the "dirty, sneaky Japs."

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2009-07-01   1:52:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I saw this on TV a few years before I got on the internet.

I guess a quick death is better than slowly dying of exposure in the ocean.

Soldiers in the Pacific said they never took Japanese prisoners, after they found the horribly mutilated bodies of dead G.I.s.

There's no place better thanTurtle Island.

Turtle  posted on  2009-07-01   6:48:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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