Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette — Strategic Culture –
America’s Pacific War was a racist war of annihilation both before and after Japan’s surrender, Declan Hayes writes
Perhaps Edgar L. Jones, a former war correspondent in the Pacific, put it best when he asked in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.”
Article via Telegraph
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America’s Pacific War was a racist war of annihilation both before and after Japan’s surrender, Declan Hayes writes
Perhaps Edgar L. Jones, a former war correspondent in the Pacific, put it best when he asked in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.”
Article via Telegraph
Via @strategic_culture
#Japan #Pacific #Nagasaki #Hiroshima #US #USMC #WarCrimes #WW2