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    pows


    1. Atrocities in the Pacific Theater by US troops were widespread; execution of POWs; mutilation of enemy dead; massacres of civilians; even the collection of enemy body parts as trophies


    2. Atrocities against civilians and murders of POWs, yes, but torture was not common in wars against Natives


    3. Perot also claimed his security had some years earlier stopped a “ six man Viet Cong-Black Panther hit squad” sent to kill him for trying to rescue POWs still imprisoned in Vietnam


    4. , since Perot believed Bush was covering up evidence of US POWs in Vietnam


    5. The worst atrocities done during the march were by Confederate guerillas, who hung Union POWs or slit their throats, leaving their bodies hanging as a warning


    6. Union troops as a rule had a far better record of humane treatment of civilians and POWs than Confederate ones


    7. Most of the German POWs had been released by summer’s end, but a few hundred remained, segregated from the DPs in a guarded compound


    8. He could have forewarned the site but was afraid that American POWs would be placed in the drop zone


    9. POWs receive the best of treatment: they cannot be placed in cells, they need only provide name, rank and serial number, and they are entitled to a


    10. Stalin was suspicious of his returning POWs and also of Soviet citizens who had been exposed to the West

    11. On the second day their HF radios went out causing them to miss the scheduled contact times to learn where POWs or newly downed pilots might be hiding


    12. "Do the President and the SecDef know the Navy has lost over 100 planes in North and South Vietnam these last two years yet supplies and troops are still going into South Vietnam? Do they know the Air Force has lost 280 planes in the same time, yet enemy attacks are increasing in the South? Do they know we, the Navy and the Air Force, have nearly 300 pilots as POWs in a captivity more brutal than the Japanese used in World War Two? And do they know in spite of our efforts and all those losses, we see the defenses in�creasing in North Vietnam? And what about the dead pilots of those 1,000 or so Army helicopters shot down in South Vietnam? Do the President and the SecDef know any of this? And if they do, does it mean anything to them?"


    13. Why else would they want to deliver German POWs to the commies? For us it was no longer a choice of to whom we would surrender - it didn’t matter anymore


    14. To my left was an orchard, and under the short apple trees sat some fifty German uniformed POWs packed tightly together


    15. The next target was The Hague which was reached as the German Army captured over 3,500 Dutch POWs


    16. “To house POWs and the increasing number of those who fought against us


    17. We have messed with the air, water, and soil and experimented on animals, slaves, POWs, prisoners, minorities, other nations and now every last fucking one of us, the whole Greed damned world


    18. Whether it was fatally shooting POWs, Jews or rebels, there was always a Nazi or two taking photographs


    19. On Kwajalein, the rumor said, POWs were murdered


    20. All of the POWs held on that island, he said, were executed

    21. All over their captured territories, the Japanese were using at least ten thousand POWs and civilians, including infants, as test subjects for experiments in biological and chemical warfare


    22. He told Louie that he was a civilian employee of the Japanese navy, which had made him head interrogator of all POWs in Japan


    23. The men in Ofuna, said the Japanese, weren’t POWs; they were “unarmed combatants” at war against Japan and, as such, didn’t have the rights that international law accorded POWs


    24. The depth of the conviction was demonstrated at Australia’s Cowra camp in 1944, when hundreds of Japanese POWs flung themselves at camp machine guns and set their living quarters afire in a mass suicide attempt that became known as “the night of a thousand suicides


    25. Some guards, intoxicated by absolute power and indoctrinated in racism and disgust for POWs, fell easily into sadism


    26. Paradoxically, then, some of the worst abuses inflicted on captives and POWs may have arisen from the guards’ discomfort with being abusive


    27. Everywhere in Japan, demonstrating sympathy for captives or POWs was taboo


    28. Camp personnel caught trying to improve conditions for POWs, or even voicing sympathy for them, were sometimes beaten by their superiors


    29. “The general opinion towards POWs at that time was very bad,” wrote Yukichi Kano, a private at another camp who was beloved by POWs he tried to assist


    30. In the fall of 1942, when the Americans attacked Japanese ships off Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, the Japanese beheaded twenty-two POWs held on the island

    31. A similar horror played out on Japanese-held Ballale, in the Shortland Islands, where British POWs were being used as slaves to build an airfield


    32. According to a Japanese officer, in the spring of 1943, when it appeared that the Americans were soon to land on Ballale, Japanese authorities issued a directive that in the event of an invasion, the POWs were to be killed


    33. No landing occurred, but in response to an Allied bombing, the Japanese executed all of the POWs anyway, some seventy to one hundred men


    34. In the atoll lagoon, on a hunk of coral, one of the POWs had scraped a message:


    35. POWs were dying by the thousands in camps all over Japan and its captured territories, and winter was coming


    36. The POWs of Ashio were handed over to a wire-and-cable firm, which herded them underground to mine copper in conditions that were almost unlivable


    37. This work was usually, but not always, restricted to enlisted POWs


    38. After the war, some POWs would tell of heroic Japanese civilians who snuck them food and medicine, incurring ferocious beatings from guards when they were caught


    39. POWs led through cities were often swarmed by civilians, who beat them, struck them with rocks, and spat on them


    40. Virtually nothing about Japan’s use of POWs was in keeping with the Geneva Convention

    41. The Japanese government made contracts with private companies to send enlisted POWs to factories, mines, docks, and railways, where the men were forced into exceptionally arduous war-production or war-transport labor


    42. The labor, performed under club-wielding foremen, was so dangerous and exhausting that thousands of POWs died on the job


    43. In the extremely rare instances in which the Japanese compensated the POWs for their work, payment amounted to almost nothing, equivalent to a few pennies a week


    44. For ten to eleven hours a day, seven days a week, Omori’s enlisted POWs did backbreaking labor at shipyards, railyards, truck-loading stations, a sandpit, and a coalyard


    45. ” Because a wheelbarrow’s worth was spread over hundreds of men, a serving amounted to about a thimble-sized portion; it consisted of things like lungs and intestines, assorted dog parts, something the POWs called “elephant semen,” and, once, a mystery lump that, after considerable speculation, the men decided was a horse’s vagina


    46. He arrived bearing candy and cigarettes for the POWs


    47. On a Sunday morning, Watanabe approached some POWs crowded in a barracks doorway


    48. Watanabe beat POWs every day, fracturing their windpipes, rupturing their eardrums, shattering their teeth, tearing one man’s ear half off, leaving men unconscious


    49. As he walked in, several POWs came forward to greet him


    50. The men referred to him by a host of nicknames, including the Animal, the Big Flag, Little Napoleon, and, most often, the Bird, a name chosen because it carried no negative connotation that could get the POWs beaten














































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