"The Untold Story of the Vengeful Japanese Attack After..." Topic

… the Doolittle Raid.

"At midday on April 18, 1942, 16 U.S. Army bombers, under the command of daredevil pilot Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, thundered into the skies over Tokyo and other key Japanese industrial cities in a surprise raid designed to avenge the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the 80 volunteer raiders, who lifted off that morning from the carrier Hornet, the mission was one-way. After attacking Japan, most of the aircrews flew on to Free China, where low on fuel, the men either bailed out or crash-landed along the coast and were rescued by local villagers, guerrillas and missionaries.

That generosity shown by the Chinese would trigger a horrific retaliation by the Japanese that claimed an estimated quarter-million lives and would prompt comparisons to the 1937-38 Rape of Nanking. American military authorities, cognizant that a raid on Tokyo would result in a vicious counterattack upon free China, saw the mission through regardless, even keeping the operation a secret from their Pacific theater allies. This chapter of the Doolittle Raid has largely gone unreported—until now.

Long-forgotten missionary records discovered in the archives of DePaul University for the first time shed important new light on the extent to which the Chinese suffered in the aftermath of the Doolittle raid…"
Full article here
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Armand

War is Hell.

The IJFs were very brutal and even one could say racist, etc. … Even arguably surpassing the Nazis in many cases … A good book I read, forgot the author, entitled "War Without Mercy" about the war in the PTO/CBI. Highlighting much of the IJFs atrocities, etc. … Good reading of a horrible time in the history of the human race in the 20th Century.

Untold? Hardly.
I read about it years ago.

Anyone paid for this?

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Armand

Very few Japanese officers or officials were charged with war crimes, except for Generals Homma and Yamashita, who had personally embarrassed MacArthur. No Japanese that I know of were tried for war crimes in China.

I thought I heard 900 Japanese were executed for War Crimes. Including some for crimes in China … This link backs that up > link

In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed.

Okay, now I've heard of some. Yes, I expect the Chinese and others would have hanged those they caught. Thanks.

If the U.S. held back from any offensive action which might lead the Japanese to commit atrocities, we'd still be defending Brisbane at this point.

A film about Nanking, quite good link

I agree tuscaloosa … The IJFs of WWII had no problems with committing war crimes, etc. … Even before the US got involved. They were "self-starters" with little need for any reasons to do what they wanted to do. Regardless of who were targeted for their brutality. Naking was a good example. It seems many times throughout the war they were brutal for "brutalitie's" sake. No reasons other than the "enjoyment" of it.

Soldiers do these things, and some more than others. The present crop are three generations down the line and on the whole disgusted with their own past.Can we get on with the present?
As a German friend remarked to me after she'd recently visited Israel, "The Israelis kept asking me why we had this compulsion to apologise all the time."

Sobieski: "the present crop" of Japanese citizens is not what is concerning; the present crop of Japanese government members who are continuing to worship the glory of the Empire _is_.
#yasukuni shrine