Hell In The Pacific - Episode 1 - "Inferno" - part 5 of 5

One of the most bitter battle arenas of the Second World War, Pearl Harbour represented the trigger that led America into the greatest conflict ever recorded and the eventual liberation of the people of Asia and the Pacific.

On the 7th December 1941 Japan launched surprise attacks across the Pacific region, setting battleships ablaze in Pearl Harbour, then routing the British in Malaya and capturing Singapore itself: the greatest humiliation in British war history.

The Japanese now seemed unstoppable and after being at war with China for a decade, and shocking the world with atrocities like the Nanking Massacre, they believed their destiny was to rule Asia under the Emperor, for them, a living god.

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• Japanese
• war
• crimes
• atrocities
• brutality
• prisoners

[1942ann]

@alexamada: YES, I did and do mean what I stated earlier!!!!!

[alexamada]

@1942ann its ok, we all know deep down you don't really mean that.

[alexamada]

@Stranskii hahahahahahaha...... hahahaha.... hahaha..... ha... ha... ha..... eh >.>

if you say so.... just for the record, you're french, right?

[keiweak]

this is why am glad the nuclear bomb was created..it serves as a detterent to those who wish to rule the world and commit genocide on massive scale(although the nuke do the same atleast its fast your dead in less than .0001 sec unlike being stab to the chest which is agonizing..

[alexamada]

@elvee88 yeah, that makes sense, i'll go with it. and as long as help was at least offered, its fine.

[elvee88]

@alexamada Maybe because europe was in ruins? The only war ready ally in europe was The Great British Empire, who did offer help....

[Lachausis]

@moonrider67 The same thing happened to all German scientists. Although you can't really blame engineer who constructed Tiger tank or V-2 for war crimes. The things Japs experimented on live humans would never have been done in USA, so they needed those results desperately. Typical military, I dare to say.

[moonrider67]

@Lachausis if i'm wrong i take it back... i watched a documentary about unit 731 , maybe they said only about unit 731, that th US officials wanted desperate the results of the experiments on the Chinese, and they gave the Japs there full amnesty .

[Lachausis]

@moonrider67 Of course Japs were charged and many were executed. The Tiger of Malaya was found guilty and executed. No need to lie here.

[centurion180ad]

Is there some question about Right of Reprisal after hearing these eye witness accounts, and the subsequent accounts of Imperial wounded throwing grenades or booby trapping themselves?