[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Very few Japanese war criminals were executed. A few ranking officers but not most of those who did the actual torturing and killer.

The Japanese were as cruel to our men and the Filipino soldiers and civilians as they were to the soldiers and civilians of China, and for fewer reasons than that Nazis were to Jews, Gypsies, Russians, and Poles, among others.

Their cruelty also included massive cruelty for amusement. I know that the Nazis did it, but some of the regular Wermacht (Army) did not participate in it and Gen. Oberlander refused to do it at all.

I agree. All the Japanese who perpetrated war crimes in the Philippines should have been executed, much like the British did - trial, conviction, shot. McArthur was a fool to let the Japanese war criminals get away the way they did.

[vetvetdoug]

My neighbor from Tennessee was a survivor of the Bataan Death March and the POW camps. He came home weighing 80# and was over six feet tall. He retired from the USAF and lived to be in his late 80’s. There were a lot of men from Texas and Tennessee NG units that were captured at Bataan. In Wichita Falls, Texas, there was a NG museum that chronicled the history of the Texas NG units that were captured at Bataan.