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Title: U.S. Air Crew Shot Down over Japan Were Dissected Alive
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URL Source: http://downtrend.com/admin/u-s-air- ... d-alive?utm_source=Outbrain_C6
Published: Apr 17, 2015
Author: Downtrend
Post Date: 2015-04-17 09:14:32 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 929
Comments: 69
A Japanese university has opened a museum acknowledging that its staff dissected downed American airmen while they were still alive during World War II. A gruesome display at the newly-opened museum at Kyushu University explains how eight U.S. POWs were taken to the center’s medical school in Fukuoka after their plane was shot down over the skies of Japan in May 1945. The flyers were subjected to horrific medical experiments. Doctors dissected one soldier’s brain to see if epilepsy could be controlled by surgery, and removed parts of the livers of other prisoners as part of tests to see if they would survive. Another soldier was injected with seawater, in an experiment to see if it could be used instead of sterile saline solution to help dehydration. Poster Comment: Just one small piece of the WWII Japanese war atrocities committed against American servicemen. 
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#4. To: Jethro Tull, Cynicom (#0)
B-29 crewmembers were told that they should expect torture/execution/etc. if forced to bail out over Japan. Unlike Germany, I think (without available historical documents to prove otherwise) American/allied POW's in Japan were facing immediate execution once Operation Olympic commenced.
We were told same thing if shot down over Korea or Russia. A .45 was provided. We were young but there were no kids involved.
No Kids Allowed when hot engine parts made from *magnesium* and high-octane gas lines are involved. Sounds like a good way to go prematurely grey just from worrying about that alone.
Full load 500 pounders, on take off gas fumes so thick you could cut with a knife, dont dare move, touch anything. Sweat or something running into your shoes, cannot communicate, do nothing. Tower finally figures you in trouble, meat wagons and fire trucks, rolling down runway. You pray a lot.
On a happier note, those bomber pilots became the best airline pilots in history. After dealing with four field-maintained engines and all manner of in- flight emergencies they were already prepared for anything in civil aviation transportation. They inspired great confidence in a flying public after both wars.
Very perceptive. I can tell you why. Nowadays they want you to be Harvard grad, multiple degrees etc etc. In yore they took farm boys with high school education, that divides into two separate classes of people. Chuck Yeager for instance. Two of the best pilots I ever flew with, never saw the insides of a college, barely made it thru high school. Check the records, of any profession, doctors have the worst accident record of any profession.
Do you suppose it's because more doctors fly (have airplanes) than other folks, or what? Edit: I always heard doctors & aircraft don't mix, never knew why or just don't remember.
As education is added, especially doctors, they have a false sense of assurance, they can do anything that lesser mortals can do. They are in charge at all times. In aviation that can be fatal. Arrogance is a good word.
Were not the V-tailed Bonanzas marketed towards doctors?
Beech Bonanza was a pilots airplane, not a doctors.
A search for V-tailed Bonanza and doctors led to some interesting articles.
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#7. To: X-15 (#4)
B-29 crewmembers were told that they should expect torture/execution/etc. if forced to bail out over Japan.
#9. To: Cynicom (#7)
#10. To: X-15, Jethro Tull (#9)
#11. To: Cynicom (#10)
#12. To: X-15 (#11)
those bomber pilots became the best airline pilots in history.
#15. To: Cynicom (#12)
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Check the records, of any profession, doctors have the worst accident record of any profession.
#17. To: Esso (#15)
Edit: I always heard doctors & aircraft don't mix, never knew why or just don't remember.
#19. To: Cynicom (#17)
#21. To: Esso (#19)
#22. To: Cynicom (#21)
The V-tail design gained a reputation as the "forked-tail doctor killer", due to crashes by overconfident amateur pilots with high-level skills outside aviation, fatal accidents, and inflight breakups. "Doctor killer" has sometimes been used to describe the conventional-tailed version as well.
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