[texas booster]

In November 1945, he directed a fleet of nearly 200 surplus Army and Navy ships, manned by Japanese crews, that evacuated the first of nearly six million Japanese from Manchuria, Formosa, and islands in the Pacific.

Never realized that the U.S. Navy moved all these enemy combatants over to Japan.

Would make a great FR Foxhole.

[Philo1962]

Never realized that the U.S. Navy moved all these enemy combatants over to Japan.

At that point, the Imperial Japanese Navy didn't have the ships to do it. The war was over, the Chinese had been the victims of enormous war crimes, and they wanted the Japanese gone. It had the potential to become a very ugly situation, and it needed to be resolved.