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13. The typical Japanese POW camp would contain 20,000 POW's, American and allies.

Reply to kathysart_decoration (Reply #11)

Fri May 27, 2016, 09:43 AM

May 2016

It was typical upon a POW camp's liberation that 3,000 or fewer of the 20,000 were still alive. As the allied forces approached each island, the Japanese would commit mass execution of their prisoners. They did the same at civilian internment camps to women and children.

That's if they were lucky to make it until liberation. Most POW death rate during the war in the Japanese sphere was 27% compared to the 4% death rate at German POW camp's. As the war progressed, many POW's were sent to mainland Japan and China. The death rate there was equally high. They would have all been eventually exterminated if the U.S. did not intervene with the bomb. Self righteousness and ignorance go hand in hand with the historically illiterate.

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