Ship of Shame; How 69 Allied Pows Were Massacred by the Japanese Navy in Wartime Atrocity Which Has Been Suppressed for More Than 30 Years
For eight weeks, Camp Ritchie recruits learned how to extract information from captured POWs, write propaganda pamphlets to drop behind enemy lines, analyze reconnaissance photos and kill the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, if necessary. "You name it, they did it," says Beverley Eddy, author of...
But many other people still defend the firebombing of Tokyo and the subsequent dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They point out that the Japanese invasions of China, and then of large parts of south-east Asia, had led to millions of deaths. Over 100,000 American troops had...
After his plane was downed over the Pacific, Zamperini and his fellow survivors sustained themselves by eating albatrosses. Ruling: True. And nauseating. In Japanese P.O.W. camps, Zamperini's main problem was the physical abuse he was taking,including getting repeatedly punched in the face. ...
TO the Japanese camp guards, the British soldier being buried was just another prisoner of war who had died under their regime in World War II.Daily Mail (London)
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