This thread is based on the IJA's recruitment of foreign auxiliaries from among the likes of Indian POWs, & various nationalists from occupied territories such as Java, Burma, etc- combined with the observation of 1 purported remark made by an American black after Perl Harbour that he wanted to 'slant his eyes' so's he could fight white Americans - WI they'd also tried to recruit such 'foreign legionnaires' from other such groups ? WI say a black regt or 2 had been among the defenders of Bataan, & perhaps the survivors of the fighting- perhaps in the event of there being no Bataan Death March- being offered by the Japs a chance to serve as auxiliaries in the fight against white colonialism (similar to the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' garbage they used to entice Asians) ? WI also they'd tried to opportunitistically extend this hand of better treatment to POWs from other minority backgrounds, such as Hispanics or native Americans (many of whom had served in southwestern NG units- such as the 155th & 200th Coast Arty Regts- taken prisoner at Bataan & with the 131st Field Arty regt on Java) ? Would the vast majority of these minority recruits have just dismissed such Jap attempts to use them on the basis of their patriotism & love of country, with perhaps most who joined deciding only to do so in order to make their way back to US lines somehow ( a la OTL most INA recruits who were sent into Burma) ? Or WI say some disaffected African-American POWs decided that the Japs, at least initially, had something to say re their fight against racial oppression- perhaps forming their own 'David Fagan Battalion' (as named after the 24th Inf deserter during the Philippine Insurrection who conducted a guerilla war against occupying American forces on Luzon) ? How would the US civil rights movement have been affected for the worse had the Japs managed to co-opt blacks & other minorities for their own ends ? Perhaps more race riots along the lines of Detroit & LA 1943 ?