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The crew of a different Japanese carrier, Makigumo, picked him up. A postwar investigation found Japanese accounts that said he was interrogated and then thrown overboard with weights attached to his feet, drowning him. Arizona are still alive and they have all indicated that they want to be buried in a family cemetery, according to Blount.
But Lauren Bruner, a survivor of the attack on the vessel who died in September, chose to have his ashes interred on the wreckage.
JAPANESE troops practised cannibalism on enemy soldiers and civilians in the last war, sometimes cutting flesh from living captives, according to documents discovered by a Japanese academic in Australia. Many of the Japanese captors were cruel toward the POWs because they were viewed as contemptible for the very act of surrendering. In addition, as the tide of war turned against Japan and its extended supply lines became more vulnerable, the flow of food and medicine declined to camps scattered across Southeast Asia.
Japan and the United States were not then at war, although their conflicting interests were threatening to turn violent. The attack turned a dispute into a war; —Pearl Harbor was a crime because the Japanese struck first. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis May 31, Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point in the war in the Pacific?
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How was Stalingrad a turning point in the war? Doolittle did indeed bomb Japan the raid did little more than minor damage with his 16 bombers - 15 of which crashed in China and the 16th that successfully landed in Russia where the crew was immediately interned and the aircraft confiscated. Fourteen complete crews made it back to the US. The reason why this raid was so important was for its symbolic meaning - the US could bomb Japan, something the Japanese populace had not thought possible.
And so demands grew for an extended zone of protection so that bombers would never again reach Japan. The Japanese decided to set a trap for the remaining American fleet at Midway. The plan itself was pretty straightforward - send bombers from the four Japanese carriers to bomb the island. The Americans, who consider the island strategically critical, would rush up to defend it.
Then other elements of the Japanese navy, that were scattered a few hundreds of miles away, would swoop in and destroy what Japanese air power couldn't. Except for a couple of things. One was that the battle plan was written as an enormously complex plan that depended on hundreds of little details going exactly right.
Another was that ships and men were fatigued from years of fighting. Yet another was that the plan was rushed so that parts of the plan didn't even have a chance to work right. The last thing, and perhaps the biggest thing, was that the Americans had figured out a part of the Japanese code - meaning that, in this case, they knew there was going to be an ambush somewhere known only as location AF but they didn't know where AF was.
A member of the intelligence team guessed it was Midway and a plan was put together to confirm. The team broadcast through an unsecured radio channel on Midway that the water purifiers were broken - and the Japanese began chatting about it on secured channels that location AF was out of water.
The Americans knew where and when the ambush was going to be. Now all they needed was luck.
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