[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Japanese soldier survivor from Iwo jima? Not bloody likely. Sounds like BULL FEATHERS to me.

[usmcobra]

His life was saved by Americans.

Were it the other way around would an American have been saved in the same way?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There were some Japanese Rock Island survivors, not many. Most, like this guy were taken unconscious.

I used to work for a guy who was a Jewish-German immigrant (actually refugee) who served in the U.S. Army during the War in the Pacific. He said towards the end they actually felt sorry for the poor Japanese bastards. He saw a Marine shoot a Japanese captive, who unlike most of his compatriots, actually wanted to live. The Marine need to strip search the captive and gestured for him to remove his shirt, in part by unbuttoning his own. When the Marine began to button his, the captive followed suit. The Marine again gestured for him to remove his shirt, the Jap complied, only to start buttoning it again after Marine buttoned his.

After a few cycles of this pantomime, the Marine grew disgusted and shot the captive. Good thing John Murtha wasn't there to witness it.

[ansel12]

"Japanese soldier survivor from Iwo jima? Not bloody likely. Sounds like BULL FEATHERS to me."






"Out of a total Japanese garrison of 21,000 men, only 1,023 men survived, including Akikusa. He was seriously wounded during the pre-invasion bombardment in February 1945 and did not take part in the fighting. Found unconscious in the battle's aftermath, he was evacuated to a hospital in Guam and repatriated the following year."