Savage War Crimes

Remember, it's not a war crime if you win.

These are KNOWN war crimes. With the leadership being very willing and motivated to cover up war crimes, imagine how many atrocities were successfully covered up. And will never be known to history. A chilling thought. A sad and brutal fact. Rest in peace to all the otherwise peaceful men and women sent to their deaths by corrupt and bloodthirsty governments.

If there's anyone you absolutely don't want to be a captured by, it's the Japanese.

my late grandfather was with the 57th infantry regiment (Philippine Scouts), and would always recount his escape story. he managed to run off into high grass with others, some of which died from the Japanese troops shooting at them. He still had this large scar on his back from a grazing round

Patton: "Show them no mercy. Kill them if they try to surrender." Green soldier: Shows no mercy; kills prisoners. Patton: "You weren't supposed to do that."

War on its own is brutal but the fact that we have war crimes just shows how horrible our species can be sometimes

I had never heard about Yamashita's gold, but that explains so much about the premise for Rook Island as the setting in Far Cry 3. "Why are there boxes of loot stashed in every random cave around this island?" Yamashita put them there. The skeletons and lost letters of WW2 soldiers always made sense to me, of course, but now knowing the full history with the stockpiled treasure, it really completes the picture.

The bataan death march is truly horrific and something i couldn't even bare to imagine going through. Poor souls.

We all know Patton absolutely knew what he was doing when holding that speech...

Gotta love it how the officers always get off and the enlisted are the ones who are punished

My great grandfather died in the Batan death march, I never knew much about it until now. Thank you.

My step-dad dated a girl whose dad survived the Bataan death march, said he was the scariest man he'd ever known.

"During the Second Sino-Japanese War the Imperial Japanese Army committed war crimes" Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

My grandpop’s uncle survived the Bataan death march, my family only found out after they went through his things when he passed away.

As a german I'm quite surprised by these. As far as histroy lessons in schools go the only japanese involvement in WWII we learn about is Pearl Harbour. Only learned about various war crimes and the existence of unit 731 way after my school days.

In 1975 I enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to NAS Barber's Point Oahu HI. Was first in Squadron VR-21 a C-118 Transport and Admirals special aircraft group until it decommissioned in late 1976. Was then assigned to VC-1 a photographers and training unit. My XO and then later CO was Commander Gerald Coffee.........he retired as a Captain. He gave lectures to 'newbies' such as I about his experiences as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for 7 plus years. He was one of the originators of the 'Tap Code' system. He was the ONLY Officer that I had any authentic respect for on the Naval Station and happily saluted him. All others were just obligations to superiors. LOVED him very much and was fortunate to have spoken with him for over an hour 4 months before he passed away at 88 years old.

I'm from the UK and I learned about WW2 in school. We never talked about any Allied war crimes though and only learned about the Holocaust. I'm glad we have channels like simple history so that we can learn about the war from both the Allied and Axis perspectives

My grandfather escaped the Bataan Death March and joined the guerillas fighting in the jungle. He had many stories about what the Japanese did during the war.

I can’t imagine being a soldier and expected to fight and under intense pressure of seeing your comrades and buddies getting killed you have to restrain yourself from getting revenge. Much respect to those who can.

Thank you for doing this! I have been waiting for you to do a BATAAN Death March episode! Means a lot to me because my Grandpa was a Filipino POWs captured. His name was Marino aka Marine Unite. The Filipinos got released, he then joined a guerrilla group to fight the Japanese.