Jack Brisco
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Yeah, was just wondering how many Americans would make it into the hills. Since everyone knows how the Japanese treat POWs, I see a lot of people trying to get away, and some eating their guns.
Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon
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Yeah, was just wondering how many Americans would make it into the hills. Since everyone knows how the Japanese treat POWs, I see a lot of people trying to get away, and some eating their guns.
I'd imagine taking small boats across the bay rather than trying to infiltrate Japanese lines. Unless you that's what you had in mind.
StephenColbert27
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They'd probably have more volunteers than boats. Doubt anyone is excited about being captured by the Japanese.
Guardian54
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*sarcastic joke*
I find that most boat-borne expeditions have more people than boats, due to the need for boat crews.
Errr.... And the chances of getting captured if you try to sneak through a couple of miles of Japanese lines to get out to the peninsula have got to be pretty high.
Heck, even taking boats across might result in 50% being captured before they managed to link up with resistance forces. Surely sneaking through Japanese lines would be much riskier than that? Especially after the first handful have been captured.
IMO the Japanese would assume they were deserters, and they HATED deserters, AFAIK.
looking at that very thing right now... the Filipino Coast Guard still has 3 PT boats, 3 gunboats, some tugs and yard tenders, and various small craft, while the USN still has the Canopus
Reviewing what the Japanese have assigned to the area too.... I will make a final decision over the next few days
I am also reviewing closely the map and Japanese unit densities
a lot of butterflies are adding up toward that very thing.... the South Pacific Campaign is going to be the biggest ITTL change
There is some radio traffic between stay behind units and Bataan, as well as a a trickle of civilians via small boats coming to and from. Civilians reported what they saw. Also of course there are the periodic battlefield discoveries of gruesome details.
and the stragglers mentioned above
Since I'm now morbidly curious what was the record for Japanese beheading contests?
I can't say I have ever found the answer, but if a record exists it probably was created during the Rape of Nanking
Guardian54
Banned
No.
The General in charge, who tried repeatedly to enforce discipline in Nanjing and stop his troops from going nuts, but who was undermined by Prince Asaka letting the troops run loose, got hanged after the war.
Prince Asaka got away scot-free.
These things really helped Mao rally China to anti-Americanism, and with good reason too.
OMG thats to bad, maybe in this timeline things could be different
Guardian54
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This sounds a lot like "put every single adult male of the Japanese Imperial family on trial for war crimes except maybe Hirohito (and even then only if he actively overrides the miltiary to force a surrender). Also inform them that if any one or more of them commit seppuku then the Emperor will be put on trial as well." to me, for some reason.