When one of our soldiers on Guadalcanal picked up a Japanese leaflet with a picture of a naked woman on it that promised “kind treatment” if he deserted he got the first good laugh he had in weeks. Japs dropped this beauty over the Marines on Guadalcanal, promised her to U.S. deserte...
Considering that something like 27% of Japanese POWs did not survive the war, I doubt that many Australians were fooled by this motion picture. Prisoners of war from Australia held by the Japanese were subject to murder, beatings, summary punishment, brutal treatment, forced labor, medical exper...
The problem is that although the Japanese propaganda machine ran day and night, the treatment of the Japanese Army toward her new “ally” was such that the Filipino population quickly saw through the lies. They waited patiently for the return of the Americans, knowing that eventually true liber...