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Post by EXO on Mar 28, 2021 14:25:33 GMT 8
This article has been on the website a few years, and I am of the view that most people haven't been aware of it. It's one of those things that's been tucked away, easy to overlook, though not hidden, I guess. Recently, I got in a discussion with a fellow who, during his career, lectured at the Command and General Staff College. We were talking about the 503d PRCT in Negros, a battle he had not heard about. My comment was that he had never heard about it because it had been given the historical label of " mopping up." How awful that campaign truly was, was known pretty much to only those men who had fought it, and who had to bury their friends there. Not unlike Noemfoor, except that Noemfoor was at least a part of the road to Tokyo, and not a blind alley on a small central Philippine island. What a tragedy to have had a family member die in a "mopping up". If there's one item on our website that presents how awful war was, (other than "The War in the Pacific Was Worse. Inconceivably Worse" by John D. Lukacs) it is Report No. 2, War Crimes Branch. Warning: I don't think you can read it and not be the same again.
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Post by chadhill on Mar 30, 2021 8:18:56 GMT 8
Unbelievably savage, gruesome behavior by our adversaries. Let us never forget the victims.
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