Just for
PERSPECTIVE....
below is a picture of my first cousin twice removed. He volunteered and was deployed to the Philippines.
I never had a chance to meet the man, he was murdered by Japanese soldiers during the Bataan death march. Along with an estimated 10,000 other prisoners.
it was easier to bayonet them than to feed them.
My grandfather was lucky, he was pulled out of Kwajalein a few weeks earlier so he could be sent to rebuild Henderson field on Guadalcanal. Otherwise he too would have likely been murdered at the hands of the Japanese on that infamous death march.
You can read about it here along with just a few of the many other atrocities committed by the Japanese during WWII.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/heroic-us-coast-guard-cutter-crew.html
It's fortunate for them that we didn't have more of those special bombs.
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Some of the most infamous atrocities include the 1937-1938 Nanking massacre, which claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Chinese civilians, and the notorious Unit 731 Experimental facility in which many hideous experiments were conducted on Chinese, South East Asian, Russian and Allied prisoners with an overall death toll of 250,000 men, women and children.
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