In retrospect, he was the lucky one.

@@davidallenmandal2439 Butthurt

You certainly are.

Its especially hell when fighting the Japanese

Same as the us Cav and Texas Rangers when they were fighting the Indians they always said save the last bullet for your self

>drops bombs on children >gets killed Cry harder

@@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?

@@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?

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.

​@@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.

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.

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...

@@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.

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 I met General Tibbets at a Gun Show...a Total WW2 Airman..Total War...

@@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.

Agreed

Quien esté libre de pecado.... desde luego no los americanos. Aprende algo de tu historia.

@xirsamoht x Probably still on the list dont you think?

So were the Germans. And yes I'm German-American.

@@sirb2616 There's also an expression that goes "Two wrongs don't make a right".

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.

The US is to blame as well. They let Japan get away with their war crimes in exchange for their human experimentation documents.

@@jessicamorris4748 Yeah, but the 9066 did not torture, murder or eat their Neisei. Look up 4044 RCT, unless you already know

@@gordonhopkins1573 *442

@@HootOwl513 Thank you for he correct number, cheers

@Chris Donahue At least you're being honest.

@Chris Donahue It's also on the Threatened Species List.

Just close your eyes and imagine being a civilian being bombed from above by B29.

@@Michael_Veritas Hmmmm, Pearl Harbor???

@@Savetheplanet802 Pearl harbour was an attack against a military target.

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.

@@jacklewis5452 I take it that your father did not have the honor of being captured by the Japanese on Iwo Jima?

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...

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..

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.

I know right.

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.

@@tywinlannister8015 Tywin, thank you. A thoughtful message. I appreciate it. My best to you.

@@tywinlannister8015 Sounds like you have experienced bad things

@@tywinlannister8015 If you're going to promote a feel-good philosophy, instead of your namesake's, perhaps you should consider a name change? 😉👍

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!

@@ashleyb.1563 O

@@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.

America let them go free.

@@ashleyb.1563 bullshit the Nazis and Japanese were 10X worst

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

@@wekapeka3493 That's some sick stuff. It's not right that this isn't really known about or in history books.

and you think America didn't do the same stuff? the winners re-write history

@@aerebona9947 damn

@@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.

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.

Dosent matter we Murder Both including Christians from Luzon The Moro Mujahideen sends their regards.

Peculiar how comments get so far off topic to the point of ludicrous.

Thats how it works in every country.

They don't even teach about it in their schools.

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.

@@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!

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!

You'd have nightmares listening to this one before bed!!

Me too!!

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.

“This is the way”

The accounts I`ve read would`ve made Ghengis Khan blush. Murdered by the tens of thousands.

Chinese civilians were treated no better.

Look up "The Rape of Nanking" Much of it is well documented.

Let's just say the Japanese Army operating outside of Japan were often on short rations. Just think about what that implies.

@@elmospasco5558 cannibalism must have run rampant as supplies ran thin.

Those US airmen were mass-murdering civilians. They weren't much different from Al Qaida.

@@rightwingreactionary Get a clue!

@@mountainguyed67 Fire-bombing civilians for "the greater good" is still mass murder.

@@rightwingreactionary I would love to meet you

@@davidrutledge1482 I'm straight. Sorry to disappoint.

Dont worry, that Atom bomb woke up the "right" people as to what the retribution was going to be.

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.

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.

It's a pity their handling guards didn't experience a negligent discharge

@@rudiruttger Perhaps that's how they were conceived...

The A bombs 💣 were justice of sorts i suppose.

@@mikefoehr235 justice? Killing the innocent while the guilty go free is justice?

@@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.

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.

@@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.

@@karapuzo1 ‘

@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.

@@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

Just not enough.

Read the stories of the bomb survivors. Then see if you agree they should have been bombed. Most were totally innocent of any thing

@@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.

@@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.

@@twinturbo8304 Nobody in Japan was "innocent". Sorry man that's not how war works

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.

@@mr.pitjoey2910 You should see their museums... they still believe they were the good guys

If you are so empathic, you should also undestand, why American airmen were so much hatet by the Japanese......

@@mikeromney4712 The Japanese should have been looking in the mirror.

@@ih302 Sure...both sides should take a look....

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?

@@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.

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.

@@aerebona9947 oh get off it ! Bleeding heart liberal puke !

@@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.

Lameculos.

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.

Agree. Should have been razed.... with those doctors in it.

@@monroetoolman Too late for those particular doctors but not for the university. Would be nice to see it leveled.

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

So did the German rocket scientists. Politics is a dirty game.

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

@@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.

@@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

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

04:40 on the Left Coast, and waking up to another history lesson

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.)

@@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.

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 You clearly lack perspective.

@@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

​@@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.

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.

So typical for an American not to get the point. It was like this Because of the US bombing of Japan!

@@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.

@@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.

@@goldmanjace You’re the one not getting the point. Are you clueless as to why the U.S. was bombing Japan?

After hearing this I’m thinking we should have dropped about 10 more

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.

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.

@@kaffeesturm77 yes, taking double standards to a new height of delusion

@@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

@@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

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.)

Lol, Japan was like that literally 80 some years before WW2.

As those of their next of kin

Thankfully the civilian bombing cowards are certainly resting in pieces

@Jimmy T following orders

Bombing the civilians and destory their home RIP Pick one plz

And yet some say we shouldn't have nuked them. I think we didn't nuke them near enough.

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..

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.

@@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...

@@Germanicus2415 exactly

No bet.

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.

Please watch videos before commenting.

@@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.

@@stevenobrien557 There was nothing in the video that the Japanese people are aware or acknowledges thier atrocities during WWII

When you refer to "Us" I assume you are a Japanese citizen

@@64maxpower I am referring to the "human species" in general.

Not all 'humans' are equal. We are.not the same genetic mix. Sadly, genetics have left some races deficient in the empathy department.

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.)

They were killing innocent civilians. Many countries reacted the same way.

@@alzaidi7739 Not the allied nations. Why are you defending this appalling behaviour?

@@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.

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.

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 great straw man argument.....take a couple examples and try to create a false moral equivalent. Typical liberal nonsense!

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Those are shrunken heads from dead soldiers.

You may mean '41, not '39. In 1939 all was peaceful on Hong Kong. The Japanese attacked in December 1941.

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".

@@vitis65 Exactly. Ask any of the people the Japanese” liberated “ about what they thought of it,and you’ll get a negative answer.

well said.

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.

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.

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!

@@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.

They wouldn't believe it.

@@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.

One shouldn’t blame the son for the sins of the father

@@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.

@@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.

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.

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.)

I think you’re confusing American citizens and Japanese citizens. Our internment camps were built to house American citizens.

@@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.

Internment was worse than torture???? WTF is wrong with you

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.

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

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.

@@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 ?

@@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").

@@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...!

@@dalilaberenicepadillaloera5568 Your anti US agenda is showing.

They have been, and continue to be, one of the most racist countries that the World has ever known.

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.)

@@lp2565 You mean they haven't swallowed cancel culture? Good on them!

I don't feel at all bad. Never did.

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.

Two bad...only 2

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...

@@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.

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.

@@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.

And become a self loathing rump like Germany? Not happening.

@@conveyor2 Hence, no honor.

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?

@@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.

@@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 :) )

@X Y Little thanks to the Dems, though.

We weren't even talking about Republican and Democrats it always end up this way in yt comments lol. "Its only natural" -emperor palpatine

@@folktale2923 Precisely...

@X Y Speak to old Ronnie Reagan about that one...

@X Y I'm sure...

profound analysis, amazingly profound

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.

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.