The crew member who put his Colt 1911 to his head and pulled the trigger - I can't even imagine being in that position knowing you're sparing yourself an even worse fate than death itself. War truly is hell.
@xiaoka3 жыл бұрын
In retrospect, he was the lucky one.
@garretth82243 жыл бұрын
@@davidallenmandal2439 Butthurt
@davidallenmandal24393 жыл бұрын
You certainly are.
@jpslayermayor92933 жыл бұрын
Its especially hell when fighting the Japanese
@laughingsnake19893 жыл бұрын
Same as the us Cav and Texas Rangers when they were fighting the Indians they always said save the last bullet for your self
@sprintkick97933 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dr. Felton for not letting these disgusting acts of savagery be lost to history. RIP those brave airmen.
@RAS-oz5ph3 жыл бұрын
>drops bombs on children >gets killed Cry harder
@SOS-ds8gq3 жыл бұрын
@@RAS-oz5ph Japan and nazi will do the same if not worse if they evey have the capacity and chance. USA also drop leaflets to warn civilian before bombing. Also Japan committed atrocities in China I guess that tells infants like you something huh?
@Mike-kg7nz3 жыл бұрын
@@SOS-ds8gq Western countries including the US commited numerous crimes for centuries against Africans, Asians and native American, of course human experiments included, and they say their countries love equality and human rights... How dare you talk about Japan's fault?
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Firebombing Japanese civilians, so-called "strategic bombing", was an act of bravery performed by these men? This is what they had just done before been shot down. You need to get your moral priorities in line.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
@@SOS-ds8gq So the hundred thousand Japanese civilians burnt alive during the firebombing of Tokyo in Marcho of 1945, and thousands of others thought the US air force was just kidding before they got wiped out? Interesting. Could you please cite any forewarning of Tokyo in that incident or any other doomed German o Japanese city? If not, you are just making this up along the way. It's properly calle "American exceptionalism". But prefer to call it cold blood murder and genocide on behalf of self-righteous Americans.
@Zizumia3 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing a documentary some years ago where they interviewed a Japanese doctor of Unit 731. Even as an old man, many years after the war, he felt no remorse and was even proud of what he did. It was even evident that the Japanese people supported him. Just another atrocity swept under the rug...
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Remember the pilot of the bomber that nuked Hiroshima? Over one hundred thousand did in a few instants, and tens of thousands endured a slow death for months and years. All civilians. He also said he felt no remorse. He was just doing his job. That's American self-righteous exceptionalism.
@Zizumia3 жыл бұрын
I do not deny that both sides committed atrocities during the war. I condemn a man who killed thousands of innocent civilians with an atomic bomb, thinking it was a mortally justified thing to so as much as I condemn a man who killed thousands of civilians with chemical weaponry and torture who also thinks it was a morally justified act... While Americans say that the atomic bombs were justified because it saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and the Japanese say the research done at Unit 731 were crucial to the advancement of science, I don't believe anyone involved should feel "good" for what they did...
@charlesjames14423 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 : Col. Tibbits was engaged in a military operation against a military target in a time of war. Total war means that all members of the enemy population may be considered a legitimate target and eliminated as needed. That said, murdering POWs out of revenge or as a political act of retribution is beyond the pale. The Japanese certainly had no compunction and used both actions as a matter of policy. Did American soldiers kill Japanese POWs out of hatred? Hell yes they did. And often for just cause. Hatred is a real thing. Watching your friends be butchered tends to drive out the finer aspects of the human character. The Japanese were in the very unenviable position of getting less than they deserved.
@finddeniro3 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 I met General Tibbets at a Gun Show...a Total WW2 Airman..Total War...
@mypartyisprivate86933 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 3 - 14 million dead from Japanese war crimes in WWII. Not conventional war. War crimes. Do you really want to keep making comparisons? You have no idea what you're talking about. You're a cartoon. Stop commenting everywhere like a lunatic.
@joshbennington77633 жыл бұрын
When it comes to horrifying atrocities, Japan was on the top tier list... God bless Dr. Felton, Love from the Philippines...
@antitiktokunion38943 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@sirb26163 жыл бұрын
Quien esté libre de pecado.... desde luego no los americanos. Aprende algo de tu historia.
@JonSpink3 жыл бұрын
@xirsamoht x Probably still on the list dont you think?
@PeterMayer3 жыл бұрын
So were the Germans. And yes I'm German-American.
@Reindeer9113 жыл бұрын
@@sirb2616 There's also an expression that goes "Two wrongs don't make a right".
@ronwalsh3 жыл бұрын
I spent a few years in Japan while serving the Marine Corps. My buddies and I would visit museums located around the country, and it was just amazing that there was very very little displayed about the Japanese aggression during the war. From one museum on Okinawa, it would appear that the U.S. just randomly destroyed targets in Japan for no other reason than to punish the citizens. It is amazing the glaring omissions that are taught in the schools in Japan. Stories like this one need to be remembered, as do all stories from wartime.
@jessicamorris47482 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the Japanese are not the only ones who downplay this horrific chapter in history. The brutality of the Japanese military (and apparently most of the rest of the Japanese population) is also downplayed in American schools. I finished both high school and college before the current outbreak of the culture wars and I even took courses involving both Eastern and modern history, yet incidents like this were barely spoken of or were passed off as being mostly the results of cultural differences. This is not the result of cultural differences. But perhaps it is also worth noting that the Japanese are not the only ones who have trouble addressing the dark chapters of their past. Roosevelt's own crime, Executive Order 9066, while different in scope and nature from what is described here, was no less contrary to the professed ideals of his country. Executive Order 9066 was only monstrous in a different way, and is also poorly understood in the USA. The fact that political left in the USA lionizes Roosevelt to this day demonstrates how little is known about the Japanese American internment. Being able to look at the dark and ugly chapters of history clearly is important for everyone.
@q_q1232 жыл бұрын
The US is to blame as well. They let Japan get away with their war crimes in exchange for their human experimentation documents.
@gordonhopkins15732 жыл бұрын
@@jessicamorris4748 Yeah, but the 9066 did not torture, murder or eat their Neisei. Look up 4044 RCT, unless you already know
@HootOwl5132 жыл бұрын
@@gordonhopkins1573 *442
@gordonhopkins15732 жыл бұрын
@@HootOwl513 Thank you for he correct number, cheers
@Savetheplanet8023 жыл бұрын
Just close your eyes for one minute and imagine being on a wooden plank with some guys around with knife and cutting your flesh. Those men had a horrible death.
@kenneth71973 жыл бұрын
@Chris Donahue At least you're being honest.
@richstex47363 жыл бұрын
@Chris Donahue It's also on the Threatened Species List.
@Michael_Veritas3 жыл бұрын
Just close your eyes and imagine being a civilian being bombed from above by B29.
@Savetheplanet8023 жыл бұрын
@@Michael_Veritas Hmmmm, Pearl Harbor???
@captaincoxwaggle68823 жыл бұрын
@@Savetheplanet802 Pearl harbour was an attack against a military target.
@tombombadil31853 жыл бұрын
This tale makes it easy to understand why those who fought in the S. Pacific hated the Japponese.
@jacklewis54523 жыл бұрын
My dad fought on Iwo Jima.....he said he didnt hate the Japanese soldier......they were forced to fight like all American soldiers were. Wars were created by leaders not the citizens.
@demef7583 жыл бұрын
@@jacklewis5452 I take it that your father did not have the honor of being captured by the Japanese on Iwo Jima?
@ZuluLifesaBeech-3 жыл бұрын
My Dad was on the Essex Thanksgiving Day '44 when a Kamikaze hit her. He hated them till the day he died. 🇺🇸 RIP WW2 Veterans...
@hairydogstail3 жыл бұрын
I grew up with many WW2 vets. The soldiers who fought in the Pacific hated the Japanese. I never heard the deep hatred the vets had toward the Germans as they did the Japanese..
@derekr12823 жыл бұрын
There is a reason why the local native peoples of the Pacific islands routinely helped the Allies while almost never helping the Japanese. They had experienced Japanese brutality themselves, and they wanted to help the Allies rid of them.
@roderickcampbell21053 жыл бұрын
Well, this was a mighty tough one. My faith in humanity has been under stress and this sure as hell isn't helping restore it.
@DrJones203 жыл бұрын
I know right.
@tywinlannister80153 жыл бұрын
Do not have faith in humanity, for you're sure to be always disappointed. Have faith in yourself. And focus on doing what you think is right. That's where your faith is well placed. You can always be pleasantly surprised when humanity does something different.
@roderickcampbell21053 жыл бұрын
@@tywinlannister8015 Tywin, thank you. A thoughtful message. I appreciate it. My best to you.
@DrJones203 жыл бұрын
@@tywinlannister8015 Sounds like you have experienced bad things
@tyree90553 жыл бұрын
@@tywinlannister8015 If you're going to promote a feel-good philosophy, instead of your namesake's, perhaps you should consider a name change? 😉👍
@greglammers99053 жыл бұрын
It infuriates me that so many of these war time criminals went free. Thanks for the lesson dr Felton
@ashleyb.15633 жыл бұрын
As did all the British, American and Russian war criminals, or do their known atrocities not matter? All sides committed horrendous war crimes, but only the loosing sides faced punishment for it!
@davidhaill18923 жыл бұрын
@@ashleyb.1563 O
@MrBannystar3 жыл бұрын
@@ashleyb.1563 Not dismissing any "war crimes" committed by the Allies, but which "war crimes" do you honestly think compared to what the Japanese did? You can't lump all "war crimes" in as one category, there are always more severe cases and what the Allies were responsible pales in to comparison.
@Hangedman19992 жыл бұрын
America let them go free.
@Channel-23s Жыл бұрын
@@ashleyb.1563 bullshit the Nazis and Japanese were 10X worst
@thevman41033 жыл бұрын
How horrible. And this is only a fraction of the atrocities they committed, there is no telling what we do not know about. I've read stories of them freezing people to death.
@wekapeka34933 жыл бұрын
Only the lucky ones were frozen to death! See the following for a more complete understanding of their depravity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
@thevman41033 жыл бұрын
@@wekapeka3493 That's some sick stuff. It's not right that this isn't really known about or in history books.
@aerebona99473 жыл бұрын
and you think America didn't do the same stuff? the winners re-write history
@comradekenobi69083 жыл бұрын
@@aerebona9947 damn
@thevman41033 жыл бұрын
@@aerebona9947 Kind of funny how the Japanese lost yet it didn't stop them from re writing their own history, like conveniently leaving all of these things out of their books. Did the US do this? Mm idk, they had no problem letting the "scientist's" go to use them, just like all of the n@z!'s under operation paper clip. Theres no telling what kind of experiments were done. I'd say what was done in mental institutions is a better thing to compare this to. But even today the feds funnel money into all kinds of messed up things like humanizing rats with fetus parts, but thats another subject. Did us troops walk around with the heads of the chinese in cages? did they use civilians as live bayonet targets by the hundreds? Did they operate a place like unit 731? Did they commit mass murders and rape by the thousands like the imperial army did in the Philippines? If the US did then it would definitely be known about today, especially with the anti American agenda that exist's, no one would ever hear the end of it. All of the bombing is part of war, cutting people apart and eating them is next level. Japan didn't want to abide by the Geneva convention or any morals for that matter, and it led to the unfair murder and cruel treatment of alot of innocent civilians and pow's.
@bigp30063 жыл бұрын
My dad fought in the Philippines and saw the atrocities committed there. He kept 1 bullet in his pocket declaring: I wouldn't let them take me alive.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
You do know that the Americans murdered tens of thousands of Philippines after they were "liberated" from the Spain at the turn of the 20th century? Read a little history. Real history.
@kennedy072 Жыл бұрын
Dosent matter we Murder Both including Christians from Luzon The Moro Mujahideen sends their regards.
@bigp3006 Жыл бұрын
Peculiar how comments get so far off topic to the point of ludicrous.
@kwillee933 жыл бұрын
I’m appalled that the Japanese weren’t more harshly punished. How dare they try to hide the atrocities from education.
@ullrikegabler3 жыл бұрын
Thats how it works in every country.
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
They don't even teach about it in their schools.
@mikefoehr2353 жыл бұрын
As a Canadian of German Ancestry knowing how awful the NAZI regime was...well I guess the Germans were not alone in committing atrocities. Let us all be thankful we live in a more peaceful world now.
@carnifexor30103 жыл бұрын
@@ethand3577 from a society perspective they are ashamed of it. That history is taught in universities, but not public schools, as the depth of such actions are now often never taught in US schools. Teaching in depth history in secondary schools doesn't promote or advance the score only specific testing in our school systems. When i was in high school in the mid 90s, the AP history classes I took taught about the death march in the Philippians & the section 731 human experimentation done in China by Japan against any enemy of theirs for ww2. If this subject at was taught at any depth today there would be an army of Karen moms protesting and forcing their judgement that the topic is too graphic for every student. You know, the same jackwad parents who fought hard and won to remove the valedictorian system from public schools so they didn't have to explain to their little butt hurt child minded, sad, cry face 18 year old that not everyone can be first or 2nd place. Grrr!
@ullrikegabler3 жыл бұрын
I dont want to step on anyones feet but i find it amusing how americans can blatantly argue that the crimes commited on their people in ww2 are not thaught in japanes schools. When did you learn about massacres in philippines? When did you hear about massacering innocent japanese sailors in their liferafts during ww2? When did you hear of the killing of surrendered japanese fighters? General order refering to prisoners on D-day? Dont be so foolish to tell me that that is not exactly the same as japanese ppl do!
@le44213 жыл бұрын
I went to sleep listening to mark felton and now I’m waking up to a new mark Felton audio episode. Excellent.
@Pique1473 жыл бұрын
You'd have nightmares listening to this one before bed!!
@aussieoffroader19743 жыл бұрын
Me too!!
@epicconcord87113 жыл бұрын
Was trying to get to sleep to mark's calming tones as always then I got barraged with live vivisections and human liver being consumed, now I am awake again and writing this bloody comment arhg.
@Tyler-gv6zf3 жыл бұрын
“This is the way”
@stevetilk49263 жыл бұрын
The larger question is if they were this barbaric to American flyers, I can only imagine what they did to Chinese soldiers that they captured in the field.
@monroetoolman3 жыл бұрын
The accounts I`ve read would`ve made Ghengis Khan blush. Murdered by the tens of thousands.
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
Chinese civilians were treated no better.
@coreys26863 жыл бұрын
Look up "The Rape of Nanking" Much of it is well documented.
@elmospasco55583 жыл бұрын
Let's just say the Japanese Army operating outside of Japan were often on short rations. Just think about what that implies.
@stevetilk49263 жыл бұрын
@@elmospasco5558 cannibalism must have run rampant as supplies ran thin.
@marcdavis45093 жыл бұрын
Its disgusting that US leadership let this pass without hanging every person involved they were complicit in the murders of US airmen.
@rightwingreactionary3 жыл бұрын
Those US airmen were mass-murdering civilians. They weren't much different from Al Qaida.
@mountainguyed673 жыл бұрын
@@rightwingreactionary Get a clue!
@rightwingreactionary3 жыл бұрын
@@mountainguyed67 Fire-bombing civilians for "the greater good" is still mass murder.
@davidrutledge14823 жыл бұрын
@@rightwingreactionary I would love to meet you
@rightwingreactionary3 жыл бұрын
@@davidrutledge1482 I'm straight. Sorry to disappoint.
@TheSergeantWaffle3 жыл бұрын
This is some truly horrifying treatment. Glad that some measures have been taken to make sure their tales are being remembered as they happened, and not downplayed. Awful that none of the perpetrators got the punishment they deserved. If they even got a punishment at all...
@elwin383 жыл бұрын
Dont worry, that Atom bomb woke up the "right" people as to what the retribution was going to be.
@christophereyton3423 жыл бұрын
Depending on when their sentences were commuted, it may have been Douglas MacArthur who was responsible. Regardless, whoever among the American high command was in charge, none of the sentences should have been commuted.
@thunderbird19212 жыл бұрын
Now imagine having to travel there, use Japan as your fighting base, and have to work WITH some of those people during a conflict. That's how awkward the Korean War was.
@MDsteeler13 жыл бұрын
My God, that story was horrific. If I was in charge of that tribunal I’d have sentenced those surgeons to be experimented on. Replace their blood with rice wine & see if it works.
@jtgd3 жыл бұрын
And just when I thought there wouldn’t be cannibalism, there was cannibalism
@konstantinosserres35983 жыл бұрын
Sentences not executed??? Damn... The spirits of those pows still might be wondering around seeking for justice
@rudiruttger3 жыл бұрын
It's a pity their handling guards didn't experience a negligent discharge
@markmaki44603 жыл бұрын
@@rudiruttger Perhaps that's how they were conceived...
@mikefoehr2353 жыл бұрын
The A bombs 💣 were justice of sorts i suppose.
@stefanodadamo68093 жыл бұрын
@@mikefoehr235 justice? Killing the innocent while the guilty go free is justice?
@mikefoehr2353 жыл бұрын
@@stefanodadamo6809 Well....I suppose we all have to answer to a higher level when we pass from this world. I am hoping that the truly evil really do rot in hell. What else for a hope do we have? The sad thng is animals kill to eat but humans kill for deprived pleasure or God knows what.
@douglasturner61533 жыл бұрын
The fate of US Airmen bailing out over Japan is a subject rarely discussed. I always thought they would receive an unpleasant welcome, especially after a fire bombing. But this is really gruesome. Reminds me of the tortures suffered by the Marines who were captured and pulled into caves on Iwo Jima.
@PABeaulieu3 жыл бұрын
You are right. It is more easy to blame people killing downed airmen than to put ourselves in their position. Try to imagine yourself as a German or a Japanese who lost family members to firebombings seing a downed airman falling from the sky. I guess I would like to make him suffer too.
@karapuzo13 жыл бұрын
@@PABeaulieu I agree, why is bombing civilians and killing thousands considered more galant than torture and murder? Science experiments without pain relief is pretty gruesome but so is burning women and children alive. Geneva convention notwithstanding.
@WilliamSmith-gx8ed3 жыл бұрын
@@karapuzo1 ‘
@sw87413 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy T LMAO.....first you say YOU would take a chainsaw to a downed flyer then accuse me of saying torture is OK? So taking a chainsaw to a downed flyer isn't torture? So, what would you say to soldiers or airmen just going around shooting civilians because it is the civilians producing goods that enable their war effort? Perhaps we should go back to the way war was waged for most of the 12,000 yrs of civilization where murder, rape and pillage was normal. Like I said, you're an idiot.
@gordonhopkins15732 жыл бұрын
@@PABeaulieu In the German and Japanese, don't start wars, simple, don't support a way of life which leads in that direction, leave or find a way to hinder such activity
@MrRexdale713 жыл бұрын
My father always said he was glad when they dropped the bomb. It saved him and his buddies from having to invade Japan. He felt they got exactly what they deserved. When I see stories like this I have to agree
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
Just not enough.
@twinturbo83043 жыл бұрын
Read the stories of the bomb survivors. Then see if you agree they should have been bombed. Most were totally innocent of any thing
@rpm120913 жыл бұрын
@@twinturbo8304 As a son of a soldier in the PTO training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands your comment makes me sick to my stomach that you would have liked to have seen a land invasion, the casualty numbers would have been horrific. The leaders in Japan were not concerned about how many innocent women and children were killed in conventional bombing and they gave no thought how many would have died in an invasion. The nuclear bombings barely got their attention. I am just grateful for the men who flew in the B29’s and that my father was spared.
@mountainguyed673 жыл бұрын
@@twinturbo8304 Yes, I still agree. Absolutely. Read the stories of what the Japanese did to civilians all over Asia, and also know that many more Japanese civilians would have died in a land invasion.
@captainnutsack81513 жыл бұрын
@@twinturbo8304 Nobody in Japan was "innocent". Sorry man that's not how war works
@monroetoolman3 жыл бұрын
I don`t know what`s worse, what they did to those Airmen, or that they were let off by our own government. An absolute disgrace.
@cranes20093 жыл бұрын
Another great episode by Dr. Felton on the often forgotten stories from the Pacific theater. As a Japanese person, these stories should be taught and discussed more in Japanese schools, instead of playing the 100% victim card. Having said that, I see that some comments state that their relatives who suffered the atrocious treatment by the Japanese hated anything Japanese the rest of their lives. While that is their opinion, and I have to respect that, I’m not sure if their reason of hatred towards the Japanese should be the reason of Japanese hate by the current generation. Sure, the Japanese Govt is not straightforward with their “apologies” at all, and there are quite a number of current Japanese people who still think that the war is “liberation of Asia from Western powers”. But please don’t forget that there are some Japanese who understand that these atrocities were committed, and believe that the Japanese Govt should do more to learn from such horrors and create a better tomorrow for all of us. Hell, I’m one of the very few Japanese who believe that the Imperial family should be abolished.
@andrewwyatt18603 жыл бұрын
It’s easy to understand why so many of the veterans of the pacific campaign hated the Japanese so many years after the war.
@mr.pitjoey29103 жыл бұрын
My father hated them till the day he passed away. What really bothers me is that they (Japanese) don't learn about this in school.
@pzkpfw23103 жыл бұрын
@@mr.pitjoey2910 You should see their museums... they still believe they were the good guys
@mikeromney47123 жыл бұрын
If you are so empathic, you should also undestand, why American airmen were so much hatet by the Japanese......
@ih3023 жыл бұрын
@@mikeromney4712 The Japanese should have been looking in the mirror.
@mikeromney47123 жыл бұрын
@@ih302 Sure...both sides should take a look....
@ridethecurve553 жыл бұрын
It's difficult for me to mentally 'go there' at the situations these airmen found themselves in. It's beyond a dark place. All I can do for solace is to realize that they're not in pain anymore. Very sad.
@aerebona99473 жыл бұрын
these airmen were bombing civilians? you're not sad about that huh, I guess small eyed people are okay to kill but people with larger eyes are not?
@sevastopol18453 жыл бұрын
@@aerebona9947 This is complicated. The US military did give orders to bomb Tokyo so I don’t think it was really the pilots fault. Furthermore torture is always wrong and even when the Germans did the same thing in the Battle of Britain they were treated fairly well and put into pow camps. The reason the civilians had to be bombed was because in Japan even if the military fails the civilians won’t just lay down. In their culture, protecting the emperor is paramount and comes before all else. In other words, break the spirit of the Japanese people so they hopefully lose their will to fight.
@manilanoakes39663 жыл бұрын
There is a difference between killing someone and torturing them to death. At least the airman who shot himself took some with him. He is a hero.
@MarkSAnnis-xw8fc3 жыл бұрын
@@aerebona9947 oh get off it ! Bleeding heart liberal puke !
@thepresident82523 жыл бұрын
@@aerebona9947 If they didn't drop the bombs, many more would have been killed in worse ways. The Pacific war was almost, if not just as brutal as the Eastern front. If they chose not to unconditionally surrender, many Japanese civilians would have been massacred at the hands of American, British, and Soviet troops. Not justifying what would have happened, just telling you how it could've been much worse.
@1977Yakko3 жыл бұрын
I literally shuddered with dread listening to this.
@armandrodriguez85013 жыл бұрын
Kyushu University shouldn't exist other than as a memorial to the depravity of war.
@Venezolano4103 жыл бұрын
Lameculos.
@mackermaldrill26563 жыл бұрын
I agree. What a horrible place. I have no remorse over the use of the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They deserved it.
@monroetoolman3 жыл бұрын
Agree. Should have been razed.... with those doctors in it.
@starsixsvn3 жыл бұрын
@@monroetoolman Too late for those particular doctors but not for the university. Would be nice to see it leveled.
@i-vlog19943 жыл бұрын
It would be nice if the families of the downed airmen could essentially sue them for so much money that they cease to exist as a university
@bman60653 жыл бұрын
The Japanese got off so lucky just because of the Cold War
@dave1234aust3 жыл бұрын
So did the German rocket scientists. Politics is a dirty game.
@dcred1233 жыл бұрын
The Soviets as well. Everyone forgets that they arguably were aligned with the axis for the first two years of the war. Interwar, the Soviets even produced tanks for and trained with Germany, before they got backstabbed
@bman60653 жыл бұрын
@@dcred123 there's a lot of unpacking there. No one wanted to side with Stalin, so Stalin played friends with Hitler to buy time for the inevitable. He wanted so bad to avoid a fight he was probably one of the few in that situation who was caught with his pants down. The non aggression pact was purely pragmatism on a bad bet.
@dcred1233 жыл бұрын
@@bman6065 This is ignoring the fact that Stalin agreed to the pact solely to give himself more time to build up a European invasion army. The whole plan was to build an army, and then to attack Germany in the hopes that the allies would side with him or at least ignore the invasion
@jtgd3 жыл бұрын
Geopolitics can make friends enemies, and enemies friends if there’s short or long term advantages over other nations. Germany and Japan were our biggest enemies 76 years ago, and now are close allies to the US. Russia was our ally until the end of the war, and became our biggest enemy and somewhat still one of our main adversaries today. There’s always been a struggle and game for geopolitical dominance since the beginning of States
@bultacotrial2903 жыл бұрын
All my respect for those brave young airmen. I hope they found peace in a better place 🙏🏼. To suffer those terrible experiences and experiments at the hand of those beasts....Thank you Dr. Felton for inform us about the good and evil in WW2. Greetings from Guatemala, Central America.
@garymckee88573 жыл бұрын
Good morning from the United States and Thanks Mark.
@CoronadoBruin3 жыл бұрын
04:40 on the Left Coast, and waking up to another history lesson
@billd.iniowa22633 жыл бұрын
I've had the pro/anti nuke debate before. People were stunned to learn of the chem and bio plans the Japanese had. The estimated casualties from an invasion. The systematic fire-bombing campaign that killed way more civilians than any A-bomb. But if this doesnt get people to understand the mindset of WWII Japan, nothing will.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
US airmen prompted this behaviour. Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.)
@billd.iniowa22633 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 There may have been like behavior on the part of SOME U.S. troops. But not anywhere close to the near-systematic torture and mutilation by the Japanese. One Marine I think he was, had collected a string of ears. He was ordered to get rid of it. Another was a machinist's mate aboard a ship that was hit by a kamikaze. He took a bone (maybe a femur??) from the pilot that had been recovered and sawed it into rings. Those are the two stories I can recall of. I'd bet there's a few more.
@mikesmovingimages2 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 You clearly lack perspective.
@booklover4314 Жыл бұрын
@@billd.iniowa2263 "..There may have been like behavior on the part of SOME U.S. troops. ..." FDR got a japanese skull sent to him as a paperweight, which he used, and if I recall right they had a magazine (I think time??) article during the war where they showed a happy sweetheart who got some such icky trophy from her intended. Sad to imagine how normal people get into such a horrible mindset
@ManDuderGuy Жыл бұрын
@@booklover4314 I love when silly people come in with these apples to oranges comparisons and baseless speculations that attempt to pretend there was no real difference between the behavior of, say, americans and japs in the pacific. It's as though you're either paid to do this or you're brainwashed/daft.
@shikeqin2 жыл бұрын
Mr. Felton, In 1960 a first rate novel "The Sea and Poison", was released by the famed Japanese Catholic novelist Shusako Endo that closely follows this incident. It was long ago translated to English and released. Available used through various booksellers. Unflinching. Well worth the read; I give it a strong recommendation.
@kuryakin24833 жыл бұрын
Do you think every time Mark Felton walks into a room that music starts playing?
@xiaoka3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dr Felton! I’m the guy who (coincidentally?) asked this to be covered in the previous part. (- A former Kyu Dai visiting student...)
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
That's why I insist that this guy Felton also give a lecture about atrocities committed by the self-righteous Americans against innocent Japanese civilians: Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9-10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] Of central Tokyo 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. Read the complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing In other words, the stategic bombing of Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale. So by May of 1945, most everybody certainly knew about the firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945. And were mad.
@unionjack84633 жыл бұрын
This series of war stories repeats so much of what is hidden by time, but this is the first one I was truly appalled by!
@samwalton45983 жыл бұрын
My father graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944 and went straight to the Pacific as a Gunnery Officer on a destroyer Escort. He was a man of few words until it came to the subject of Japan and the war. He wasn’t very happy when my oldest brother bought a new Mazda RX3 in 1971 on his 17th birthday!
@bradpaiz40383 жыл бұрын
Another great episode discussing and bringing to light the largely unknown horrors of Unit 731 Mark.
@kevint38453 жыл бұрын
Put a “like” on the video, not quite sure the word “like” is correct, maybe “horrified” “ dumbstruck” or “mortified” but “like” doesn’t seem right. My grandad fought in WW2 and hated the Japanese with a vengeance but would never say why. Perhaps it was for the best.
@Hilts9313 жыл бұрын
Honestly, stories like this are necessary to understand why the two bombs were dropped on the Japanese.
@goldmanjace3 жыл бұрын
So typical for an American not to get the point. It was like this Because of the US bombing of Japan!
@Hilts9313 жыл бұрын
@@goldmanjace I am not an American. The Japanese did this type of stuff from 1937 - 1945 so long before the U.S. was even capable of striking at the home islands. Other than everything you said, you’re correct.
@hurdygurdyman19053 жыл бұрын
@@goldmanjace So typical of you to support their atrocities just so you can hate America more. I wish you could have been in the place of one of those airmen.
@mountainguyed673 жыл бұрын
@@goldmanjace You’re the one not getting the point. Are you clueless as to why the U.S. was bombing Japan?
@krapeevids69923 жыл бұрын
After hearing this I’m thinking we should have dropped about 10 more
@ColinH19733 жыл бұрын
It's not often that I am lost for words, but I am on this occasion.
@cedarledgepublishing3 жыл бұрын
This REALLY pisses me off. How the hell can you have such inhumanity that you would actually carry out these "experiments". They must have been so scared. It makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
@PittManGaming3 жыл бұрын
What a tragic story. The Kyushu University should of been blown to smithereens by Allied Forces for what they did.
@youngimperialistmkii3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for telling this story Dr Felton. I was not prepared for how horrific this was going to be. I thought I'd heard the worst of it when you talked about the pilot who cut the parachute lines of his downed enemy. But when you talked about the "experiments" preformed upon the survivors. Including cannibalism. And the fact that my own American government let the torturers go free for political reasons, fills me with disgust.
@comhghallgeraghty35413 жыл бұрын
No respect among enemies. I'm disgusted to learn of this. Sickening
@dougsteel74143 жыл бұрын
Well, Americans weren't exactly kind to the civilians vaporized by super heated air in Hiroshima. The difference is the personal aspect, but I don't see how that makes it worse.
@kaffeesturm773 жыл бұрын
What did you expect? Dont you think US troops, which stepped officially or just not in almost every known country, are angels? I think many Americans can`t imagine the suffering which their army brings in many regions of our world. In the US the war is always far away, just known and filtered by media, no destruction in the homeland, no dead neighbours, family members or friends, no chaos, no change of their normal circumstances. Here in germany every fucking town and even most of the villages were bombed to dust, search for Wesel, sorry but for me the air raids are atrocities in a very, very big scale. For me some of the leaders tried to kill as many germans as the could. because especially in the end most raids had no military necessity. It was an attempt to wipe out culture and history, normally you say genocide, but therefor it was to big. "No respect among enemies." Where do you live? I am happy to live in Germany, because we learn and understand about our atrocities and had apologized for that, but for a long time its the turn on the Allies side too, otherwise its difficult to find a normal relationship. The angry farmers who killed the guys dropping bombs on their homes and families: what would you do? Say, `hello great enemy soldier, i will bring you to the next POW camp?` Probably not. The others things from that video are atrocities which i can`t and don`t want to defend. That is disgusting and inhuman.
@dougsteel74143 жыл бұрын
@@kaffeesturm77 yes, taking double standards to a new height of delusion
@dougsteel74143 жыл бұрын
@@kaffeesturm77 ...I might add that here in England, civilian defense were taught to use incendiary booby traps, improvised stabbing tools etc. in case of enemy incursion
@comhghallgeraghty35413 жыл бұрын
@@kaffeesturm77 I agree aerial bombardment of a civilian population was and is completely wrong. It's the personal aspect here I have an issue with and torture of enemy soldiers. Rommel was a good example on how to treat a pow. Terrible what happened your people but at least your country has now been unified again. Unlike mine. I'm Irish
@robpelick74603 жыл бұрын
This should be taught in school ....most particularly, Japanese schools
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.)
@CA9993 жыл бұрын
After part 2 in this series I was looking forward to part 3. Now i am nervous about part 4...
@yesyesyesyes16003 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early Japan had still Shoguns Disgusting to treat people like that :( Thx for sharing Mr Felton
@phased-arraych.91503 жыл бұрын
Lol, Japan was like that literally 80 some years before WW2.
@squint043 жыл бұрын
May the souls of that air crew rest in peace!!
@dannynrny4733 жыл бұрын
As those of their next of kin
@captaincoxwaggle68823 жыл бұрын
Thankfully the civilian bombing cowards are certainly resting in pieces
@Lachausis3 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy T following orders
@sosososososo41482 жыл бұрын
Bombing the civilians and destory their home RIP Pick one plz
@cristop53 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dr Toshio Tono for listening to your conscience and telling the world what your cowardly and amoral colleagues did.
@Groznyphile3 жыл бұрын
One of the most interesting videos you've done so far, Mark.
@georgemcinulty1913 жыл бұрын
Well if I had a doubt about dropping the bomb 💣 I certainly don't now.
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
And yet some say we shouldn't have nuked them. I think we didn't nuke them near enough.
@brianjones79073 жыл бұрын
George Mcinulty ,,,, that was something that never bothered me as i had an uncle who was been a prisoner of the Japanese & worked on the Burma Railroad , from what he and his friend also an exprisoner told me of how they were treated there I decided early on that the Japenese got what the deserved at the end of the war . on seeing these stories I have not changed my mind , I dont think I made the wrong decision..
@Germanicus24153 жыл бұрын
The bomb killed also the kids. If you don't have doubts about the indiscriminate murdering of innocent people for practical reasons you're just a psychopath.
@brianjones79073 жыл бұрын
@@Germanicus2415 ,,,if your comment was to me , those innocent kids you talk about were being indoctrinated with the same evil barbaric ideologies that were causing there whole country to act insuch a insanely cruel way to anybody male or female , child or adult , militery or civilian outside of Japan , so i guess that makes me a psychopath because i still have NO doubts about the bombs being dropped , it was not a Indscriminate act of murder (as you stupidly call it) but a strategic plan of action which was the only way to stop the massive loss of lives it would cost to try and Invade there home islands , not to mention save the surviving p.o.w`s in various camps who would have been slaughted , even after the 1st bomb was dropped they were still willing to fight on it was only after the 2nd bomb was dropped and the realiization sank in that they could soon not only have the forces of America but the might of the USSR to deal with that they reluctantly surrendered.. In the balence of Events those 2 bombs saved far more lives than they took , it is just a shame that they were not available earlier in the war...
@mito883 жыл бұрын
@@Germanicus2415 exactly
@cymro65373 жыл бұрын
Any bets that this atrocity is *never* talked about in Japan.....
@georgemartin49633 жыл бұрын
No bet.
@nicholaskelly63753 жыл бұрын
0f course it isn't. Just like other subjects like " The Comfort Women", "The Rape of Nanjing" or 'Unit 731' etc etc Japan has never been made to properly confront its behaviour during WW II.
@stevenobrien5573 жыл бұрын
Please watch videos before commenting.
@nicholaskelly63753 жыл бұрын
@@stevenobrien557 I agree fully that there has been academic recognition of Japan's behaviour. But in general it is not covered in Japanse text books. Certainly not in school text books. This still is causing issues with Japan's relationships with her neighbours.
@georgemartin49633 жыл бұрын
@@stevenobrien557 There was nothing in the video that the Japanese people are aware or acknowledges thier atrocities during WWII
@henriknilsson78513 жыл бұрын
Amazing story. You have been on a real roll for quality content on things must be included in history but have conveniently been forgotten.
@jaypeterson76373 жыл бұрын
The outright EVIL that humans are capable of against each other and all living creatures never surprises me...what does that say about us?! Incredibly sad and believably disappointing! 😬😢
@64maxpower3 жыл бұрын
When you refer to "Us" I assume you are a Japanese citizen
@jaypeterson76373 жыл бұрын
@@64maxpower I am referring to the "human species" in general.
@petersibbald54443 жыл бұрын
Not all 'humans' are equal. We are.not the same genetic mix. Sadly, genetics have left some races deficient in the empathy department.
@joelopez39543 жыл бұрын
Just when I think I’ve read about every atrocity committed by the Rising Sun in WW2 there’s always something else!
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.)
@speedzero74783 жыл бұрын
Nearly lost my lunch listening to these experiments. Great video as always.
@currawong609113683 жыл бұрын
The "Enemy Airmen's Act"passed by Japan in 1942 made this the law. After March 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all prisoners taken at sea.This account was by no means isolated or unique.
@alzaidi77393 жыл бұрын
They were killing innocent civilians. Many countries reacted the same way.
@Wotsitorlabart3 жыл бұрын
@@alzaidi7739 Not the allied nations. Why are you defending this appalling behaviour?
@alzaidi77393 жыл бұрын
@@Wotsitorlabart "My Grandmother lived in the idyllic little village of Ringwood, for most of her life. In 1940; the villagers took in a number of women and children, who had been bombed out, during the Luftwaffe raids on Southampton. A city situated on the Southern coast, some 20 miles away. Some of these women had lost loved ones, some had lost friends and all of them had lost their homes. Within days of their arrival; A parachute was seen decending into a field close to the village. Why a German plane, tasked with bombing Southampton, would be so far off course and so far inland and why this airman had to bail out over Ringwood, my Grandmother couldn´t say. What she did say however, was that these women grabbed kitchen knives and anything else they could lay their hands on, and then ran straight over to the field and hacked the poor sod to death." Repeated hundreds of times in the USSR too I bet. PS At Nuremburg, the Allies didn't charge Germany with civilian bombing crimes because they had done the same.
@poetasintierra3 жыл бұрын
Dr. Felton: Thank You very much for this episode. It is a horrific tale, but We all need to know it, so We never forget the deeps We human can reach
@catified20813 жыл бұрын
Japan's WW2 atrocities need to be remembered and never forgotten. Good job!
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.) Never forget.
@catified20813 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 great straw man argument.....take a couple examples and try to create a false moral equivalent. Typical liberal nonsense!
@gordonhopkins15732 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Those are shrunken heads from dead soldiers.
@nothandybutcheap20863 жыл бұрын
My brother in law’s father was captured in Hong Kong in 39 he so hated Japanese and I got it but felt his level of hate was excessive,I understand that level of anger now
@BanjoLuke1 Жыл бұрын
You may mean '41, not '39. In 1939 all was peaceful on Hong Kong. The Japanese attacked in December 1941.
@biscuit7153 жыл бұрын
This is why I will never respect the Japanese government/state until there are steps taken to ensure shit like this never happens again. Disgusting how much denial and war glorification is propagated to this day
@vitis653 жыл бұрын
I stayed in a hotel in Tokyo a few years ago. A book by the owner of the hotel chain was in the room. In it he praised the Japanese war effort as a good thing for ending western imperialism in the Pacific. Of course none of the "liberated" peoples under them would call Japanese rule a "good thing".
@shivmalik94053 жыл бұрын
@@vitis65 Exactly. Ask any of the people the Japanese” liberated “ about what they thought of it,and you’ll get a negative answer.
@TheBillaro Жыл бұрын
well said.
@alkatraz81633 жыл бұрын
We cannot afford to allow history, warts and all, to be rewritten or worse yet ignored.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Yes, you are absolutely correct: Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9-10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] Of central Tokyo 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. Read the complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing In other words, the stategic bombing of Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale.
@arkaya88593 жыл бұрын
hitting the like button doesn't mean that the content is loved, but for giving the facts that surfaced now
@mattyallen33963 жыл бұрын
As far as I'm concerned, the Japanese got off way too lightly.
@jessicamorris47482 жыл бұрын
Good for the professor who published his eyewitness account of these horrors. That is true honor and courage.
@cartwheel83193 жыл бұрын
Mark Felton: Thank you for including these not well known aspects of the war with Japan. This one event is but the tip of the iceberg of the story of the horrific and barbarous criminal treatment that countless allied POWs experienced at the hands of the Japanese. A book that is relatively comprehensive with regards to this is Gavan Daws' "Prisoners of the Japanese." It's a chapter of the war that was little written of and, most shamefully, buried by some of the governments in order to rapidly move to the next phase of reintegrating Japan into the civilized world. I feel great sorrow for what these allied forces suffered as POWs. They are the forgotten by many disgraceful and corrupt historians with bent agendas to serve.
@robertcollins51613 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Mark Felton. Let us not forget "the horrific deeds of the past."
@robertevans80103 жыл бұрын
They were an Atrocious Enemy devoid of Pity or Emotion, Cannibalism was rife among the Officer Class.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
I guess the self-righteous Americans were more nice just burning Japanese civilians alive during their air raids over dozens of cities. Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9-10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] Of central Tokyo 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. Read the complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing In other words, the strategic bombing of Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale. So I also guess the Japanese feel likewise that the Americans were atrocious enemies devoid of pity or emotion. The pilot that nuked one of the doomed Japanese cities said he felt no remorse because he was just doing his job. Hundreds of Japanese and German were executed even after saying they were just following orders. I guess it's American hypocritical exceptionalism.
@robertevans17193 жыл бұрын
From a different Robert Evans: It is facile to 'guess Japanese feelings' and to generalise about "American hypocritical exceptionalism" without mentioning the horrors the Japanese Empire at the behest of it's Emperor visited upon their chosen enemies numbering in the millions. Japan bombed cities and committed mass murder starvation and suffering on an enormous scale. One million Hong Kong residents were driven from the city and starved to death and millions more died including those Japanese who opposed militarism. What should be the response to such belligerence? If not total war - the strategic bombing by Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale as did germ warfare and wholesale butchery. My existence is due to the courage of my father's fellow POW who did not betray him under torture and was beheaded - I refute the tenor of your post Dalila in reply to the other Robert Evans!
@dennis23763 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Just bow to your Emperor and let him know that you approve of cannibalism, torture and the rest of the stuff they did. Second those civilians became a legitimate target as soon as they began manufacturing in their homes.
@hansgruber6503 жыл бұрын
Hollywood horror flicks is like a Disney movie compared to Unit 731.
@richmondlandersenfells22383 жыл бұрын
Show this to their disbelieving youth.
@coreys26863 жыл бұрын
They wouldn't believe it.
@richmondlandersenfells22383 жыл бұрын
@@coreys2686 And that alone is what i have against the japanese folk. You already got a weakened society controlled by the media franchise, couldn't have the country rearm itself due to fear of aggression, and blindly glorify the atrocities of your forebears.
@liamsmartt29223 жыл бұрын
One shouldn’t blame the son for the sins of the father
@coreys26863 жыл бұрын
@@liamsmartt2922 But they've never acknowledged what they did. Canada apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war. Japan barely acknowledges the war at all.
@liamsmartt29223 жыл бұрын
@@coreys2686 the youth did nothing, their only crime was being born to parents who had no respect for human decency. I’m saying why should the youth apologize, they aren’t the perpetrators. The “Japanese” aren’t a single entity, they are people. If you want an apology, ask for one from the government and even then, it isn’t the same institution as back during the war.
@GunnyKeith3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark. Fascinating forgotten topic.
@dagmastr123 жыл бұрын
You don't feel too bad about nuking them hearing these stories.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Absolutely right. The life of one American airman is worth tens of thousands of Japanese innocent civilians: Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9-10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] Of central Tokyo 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. Read the complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing In other words, the strategic bombing of Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.)
@marvwatkins70293 жыл бұрын
Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nakasaki or no, the Japanese really did get away with so much and have never admitted their guilt or officially their surrender. See Hirohito's announcement to this people.
@drott1503 жыл бұрын
My grand-uncle fought the Japanese as a USMC grunt during the war. For the remainder of his life he despised the Japanese and when the war came up in discussion, he would only remark or gesture something about grenades and a trigger finger when describing the Japanese. He bitterly hated their guts all the way to his grave.
@teodoro10073 жыл бұрын
No words for what I Iearned about cannibalism in a Japanese university. Greetings from Tigre in Argentina.
@GeorgeJefferson17753 жыл бұрын
Once again, thank you to the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth nations for standing with us to fight these monsters.
@SlapthePissouttayew3 жыл бұрын
"Vivisected alive" and part of the liver cooked and served...Holy Shit....but yeah--interning Japanese in the U.S. at the same time was way worse. WT actual F????
@MrRufusRToyota3 жыл бұрын
I think you’re confusing American citizens and Japanese citizens. Our internment camps were built to house American citizens.
@SlapthePissouttayew3 жыл бұрын
@@MrRufusRToyota True enough. But we didn't cut them open alive and experiment on them, did we? And I DO realize these were different times.
@queasyislander02743 жыл бұрын
Internment was worse than torture???? WTF is wrong with you
@zeitgeistx52393 жыл бұрын
You can blame the US military and the Cold War. After 1949-1950 the military and the US political establishment stopped prosecutions of most war crimes and gave clemency to many other convicted war criminals.
@seattlesix99533 жыл бұрын
Based on confirmed reports of Japanese Americans reporting for duty in the Imperial Military. My mother survived interrogations by an Army Major who boasted being a Univ Cal graduate who fled the US by submarine
@rtlennonsr3 жыл бұрын
I was a combat infantry soldier during the Vietnam war. I have seam soldiers (on both sides) killed and wounded in combat. I could only get through three quarters of your presentation before turning it off. Operating on prisoners of war without anesthesia, absolutely criminal. This story needs to be told, but I can’t listen to any more of it. Thank you Mark for your work on this subject matter.
@frankd89573 жыл бұрын
My father in law fought in the Pacific during WWII, Korea and Vietnam. He said the Japanese were sadistic.
@leonie89993 жыл бұрын
How can something so horrid be “written out of history”? Sad and terrifying
@rebukeFirstQuestionLater3 жыл бұрын
A memorial to the downed rammer next to that of the brutalized airmen is such a Japanese thing
@steveshoemaker63473 жыл бұрын
Let us never forget.....Thanks
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Yes, your are correct: Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9-10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] Of central Tokyo 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. Read the complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. Read complete article at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing In other words, the stategic bombing of Japan involved the indiscriminate murder of unarmed civilians on a mass scale.
@steveshoemaker63473 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 All of those people lives was not worth one American life....Get your head on straight....l have been thru one war how about you ?
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
@@steveshoemaker6347 Damn right! Tens of thousands of women and children burned alive in their homes away from the front, for every American soldier. That should make things even. In the mind of a psychopath like yourself, and the sponsor of this story. Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violaEtions of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman").
@steveshoemaker63473 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Yes Army's on the move don't have the logistics to move prisoner back to camps....That's just the long and short of it....So just kill the poor bastards...lt's called total war...Thanks...!
@Wotsitorlabart3 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Your anti US agenda is showing.
@williambush79713 жыл бұрын
There is a auto plant in the town I live in that has a large contingent of Japanese management. I have read alot about what the Japanese did to people during the war and still have trouble even looking at them. They tend to keep to themselves, speak their language and have an arrogant attitude about them.
@lp25653 жыл бұрын
They have been, and continue to be, one of the most racist countries that the World has ever known.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.)
@conveyor23 жыл бұрын
@@lp2565 You mean they haven't swallowed cancel culture? Good on them!
@messmeister923 жыл бұрын
After stories like this, I don’t feel so bad about Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
I don't feel at all bad. Never did.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Thank Mark Felton for the occasion. His anecdote, although unproven, has prompted me to investigate this issue further. Please enjoy the following, as history should not be forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources.) Exactly. And you should feel very proud of the "greatest generation of head boilers" among you.
@SWATT1013 жыл бұрын
Two bad...only 2
@davidhollenshead48923 жыл бұрын
The OSS knew that Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, the use of BioWeapons on the West Coast of the US, was only a few months away. Had this attack succeeded, killing between a quarter of the people on the West Coast and killing a quarter of the people on earth, the Japanese People would only exist in history books...
@messmeister923 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568It’s not an “anecdote,” it’s a proven historical event… In any case, one does not excuse the other. Any barbarism committed by US troops is obviously reprehensible, but it doesn’t lessen or excuse what happened here. If you want to go tit-for-tat on atrocities committed during World War II, you’d be here all day.
@mtvrchannel30513 жыл бұрын
Great work sir
@yepiratesworkshop79973 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a picnic for US pilots shot down in North Vietnam, either. One in particular was Adm. and long time U.S. Senator, John McCain. Another was Everett Alvarez, Jr. who wrote two books (Chained Eagle and Code of Conduct). Just months after the POWs returned home, one gave us a lecture at Homestead AFB. (I was serving in an army detachment there at the time) and I can tell you he had us in awe. A truly great "soldier" (even though he was an AF Officer) and a truly inspiring American. Mark, you should do something on the Vietnam War POWs and anybody interested should probably read a couple of the books these guys wrote.
@dalilaberenicepadillaloera55683 жыл бұрын
Felton could start with the My Lai murders executed by American soldiers against women and children in Vietnam. There were many more atrocities that were also documented.
@yepiratesworkshop79973 жыл бұрын
@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Dalila, you get no argument on me from any of that. My Lai was a terrible, horrible thing. It was a War Crime. Any time civilians are caught up between opposing forces it is a horrible thing and wantonly murdering non-combatants is the lowest of the low for any soldier and makes that soldier a criminal and a murderer. The Viet Cong weren't very nice to the villagers, either. But we (soldiers) aren't all bad. Even at My Lai a helicopter pilot and HERO named Hough Thompson landed his aircraft and he and his air crew ( Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn) threatened to machine gun their own US troops as they rescued a group of Vietnamese civilians from a bunker and flew them to safety. Once, when I returned home on leave, I found my mother had sponsored 3 Vietnamese brothers so that they wouldn't be split up at the refugee camp. They all did well here in the USA and raised families of their own.
@spacecatboy29622 жыл бұрын
thanks for getting this out there mark, the history of human cruelty needs to be known if there is any chance of humans becoming less cruel
@IsaacCarmichael3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about this. Im ashamed that the US tied to brush it under the rug
@ooyginyardel48353 жыл бұрын
There’s nothing “honorable” about the Japanese. They always toss that word about as if they are the soul owners of it. But until they admit their treacherous war crimes to the world, and more importantly to their own children, the words Japan and honor will always be worlds apart.
@conveyor23 жыл бұрын
And become a self loathing rump like Germany? Not happening.
@427lincoln3 жыл бұрын
@@conveyor2 Hence, no honor.
@HankD133 жыл бұрын
My wife is Chinese - so much forgotten horror of the war happened in Korea and China. Her mother survived the occupation of Hong Kong but remained traumatised by that experience until the day she passed. I grew up in Africa, and was always well aware how our Western culture and values are sometimes quite alien to large parts of the world.
@kesmarn3 жыл бұрын
Between "Dr." Joseph Mengele (and colleagues) and these "physicians," we're left to wonder how the "helping profession" of medicine came to collaborate with/become sadistic sociopaths in both nations. I really can't comprehend what happened to cause this.
@TheBottlenose333 жыл бұрын
Wtf did I just listen to? They served his liver as an appetizer?
@tywinlannister80153 жыл бұрын
As a scientist I would have appreciated meeting this men. I wonder how can one be so utterly disconnected from one's subject matter as to completely disregard basic morality. How does one person's psyche becomes so utterly severed from empathy?
@hennerzz34603 жыл бұрын
Perhaps a combination of a couple of authoritative and naturally cold individuals and the Japanese tendency to follow instruction and not run against the grain?
@tywinlannister80153 жыл бұрын
@@hennerzz3460 I probably fall in that category actually. But I draw the line at violation of basic moral principles. Some things, you just don't do, no matter the context.
@hennerzz34603 жыл бұрын
@@tywinlannister8015 That is very interesting. I suppose there is cold and there is cold. The difference between the cold a southron lord feels on a chill morn and the cold a man feels when manning the watch on the wall. (hehe :) )
@JohnDoe-jq5wy3 жыл бұрын
That is a wonderful historical presentation... Thank you. LESS HUMANITY FORGET!!!
@donaldseekins65163 жыл бұрын
As usual, an excellent presentation by Dr. Felton. However, Shiro Ishii was not an alumnus of Kyushu Imperial University, but Kyoto Imperial University.
@TesseRact72283 жыл бұрын
This story knd of puts a tick in the "Pro-use-of-the-bomb" column...
@TesseRact72283 жыл бұрын
@X Y Little thanks to the Dems, though.
@folktale29233 жыл бұрын
We weren't even talking about Republican and Democrats it always end up this way in yt comments lol. "Its only natural" -emperor palpatine
@TesseRact72283 жыл бұрын
@@folktale2923 Precisely...
@TesseRact72283 жыл бұрын
@X Y Speak to old Ronnie Reagan about that one...
@TesseRact72283 жыл бұрын
@X Y I'm sure...
@silentvoiceinthedark56653 жыл бұрын
Cannibalism of POWs was very common by the Japanese, in some cases it was ceremonial and other cases rose from supply chain disruption. There are many stories of how the Japanese soldiers buried live POWs under ground and hacked them up over a period of days for meals.
@fedecano73623 жыл бұрын
My day is always a bit better when I get to watch some of your content Dr. Felton, and once again I wanna thank you for it!
@michaelbruns44921 күн бұрын
Dissected alive without anesthesia is diabolical agony beyond demonic evil.
@ubroberts55413 жыл бұрын
And there are still some who believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan was wrong...
@mito883 жыл бұрын
profound analysis, amazingly profound
@MVProfits3 жыл бұрын
Lack of empathy is what makes all these crimes possible. These doctors ahd zero for their victims. Zero. Sadistic bastards. But many guys like you see it as OK to kill 100,000s of OTHER Japanese for the crimes these doctors did! And to booth, the US government that dropped the atomic bombs is the one that set those doctors free. "Justice" or revenge has nothing to do with any of it.
@livethefuture24923 жыл бұрын
what was wrong was the govt. unwilling to surrender and rather sacrifice the lives of all 70 million japanese, with no regard for the lives of their people. if you truly care about the japanese civilians than the villans are the japanese govt. not the americans.