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Title: U.S. Air Crew Shot Down over Japan Were Dissected Alive
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Published: Apr 17, 2015
Author: Downtrend
Post Date: 2015-04-17 09:14:32 by Jethro Tull
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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 Unlike Germany, I think (without available historical documents to prove otherwise) American/allied POW's in Japan were facing immediate execution once Operation Olympic commenced.
Yes, from all I've read the Germans treated downed Americans far better than the Japanese did. Japan had not signed the Geneva Convention, so there was that.
Only by comparison. The Germans considered airmen as war criminals (as indeed they are) and did shoot them. OTOH they were more lenient with spies than the allies where--they did not shoot them but the allied forces did.
On more than one occasion a Wehrmacht or Luftwaffe officer sent out to collect a downed airman used their sidearm to hold a crowd of German civilians at bay in order to safely capture an airman. The German civilians called the bomber airmen 'terrorfliegers'. The fighter pilots were well respected on both sides, to the point that downed pilots were occasionally treated to a nice dinner with conversation if they were preceded by their reputation.
The Germans treated their allied POW's better than they treated the Russians. Tit-for-tat, I suppose. If you didn't want your POWs treated badly, you didn't mistreat the enemy's Airmen were considered war criminals by the German people for obvious reasons. You might remember the Russelheim massacre: "THE murder of six unarmed American airmen by an angry mob in the last summer of the Second World War was remembered by a German town yesterday, ending more than half a century of secrecy. The men had baled out of a burning aircraft in August 1944. The badly injured radio operator was taken to hospital and the Germans took the eight other airmen by train to a prisoner of war camp north of Frankfurt. The route led through Rüsselsheim. "There they were set upon by a crowd of more than a hundred people, including housewives and workers from a nearby factory using milk churns, bomb rubble and hammers. A Nazi official finished off six of the airmen with bullets in the head, to the general applause of the mob. Two of the Americans survived by pretending to be dead. After the war the US Army sentenced five of the mob to death and five others to long jail sentences. Yesterday the town of Rüsselsheim, near Frankfurt, fell silent in remembrance. "
Changing horses in mid stream is a bit disingenuous.
I guess that's the proof that I asked for? Maybe they
should have been angry at Hitler for declaring war on US?
Maybe they should have been angry at Hitler for declaring war on US? Have the American people ever gotten angry with our leaders for waging war on scores of countries that did us no harm? I don't think the historians have ever figured out why Hitler declared war on the US. For years he had been avoiding and ignoring all our provocations. Made absolutely no sense
What's to "figure out?" Japan was Germany's ally. After Pear Harbor happened, Germany was in with Japan and Italy vs the USA and its allies. September 27, 1940: Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. December 7, 1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. December 8, 1941: The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. December 11–13, 1941: Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States
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#5. To: X-15, 4 (#4)
#23. To: Jethro Tull (#5)
Yes, from all I've read the Germans treated downed Americans far better than the Japanese did. Japan had not signed the Geneva Convention, so there was that.
#42. To: Ada (#23)
Only by comparison. The Germans considered airmen as war criminals (as indeed they are) and did shoot them. OTOH they were more lenient with spies than the allies where--they did not shoot them but the allied forces did.
#49. To: X-15, Ada, Cyni (#42)
Most agree that officers and airmen received preferential treatment over enlisted soldiers. And while there were numerous P.O.W.s who recounted tales of abuse at the hands of their German captors, most American P.O.W.s also felt that at their respective Stalags the Nazis, for the most part, abided by the rules of the Geneva Convention.
#50. To: Jethro Tull (#49)
German captors, most American P.O.W.s also felt that at their respective Stalags the Nazis, for the most part, abided by the rules of the Geneva Convention.
#51. To: Ada, Jethro Tull (#50)
Airmen were considered war criminals by the German people
#52. To: Cynicom. Ada (#51)
Airmen were considered war criminals by the German people
#54. To: Jethro Tull (#52)
#57. To: Ada (#54)
I don't think the historians have ever figured out why Hitler declared war on the US.
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