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The Japanese killed at least 100,000 withdrawing from the Philippines. Manila was a slaughter house by the time they were subdued.
My dad was a P-51 pilot and shot down 3 German planes before being shot out of the sky. He spent 14 months in a German POW camp before the war ended. he didn't ever talk to much about it but I recall saying they received "care packages" and Red Cross aid and there were German guards who would trade extra food and stuff for some of what came in the care packages.
As a short aside, he would tell stories about seeing the first ever jet planes that the Germans developed just before the war's end. I wish he would have told us more. It was great history.
Here's a little about how the Japanese conquered Korea in the early 1900's. Again, the Japanese saw themselves as a master race and Koreans as primitive.
https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea
Cool story, Don. With that record, your dad would have been a celebrity at an Air Force gathering. The bomber crews loved the P51 guys because the Mustang was the first fighter that could stay with them all the way to Germany; that increased the risk for the Mustang pilots substantially. The P38s and P47s turned back before the nastiest part of the mission because they ran out of gas. I've heard some interesting talks on the Luft Stalags, and of course the story of "The Great Escape" was centered in one. It's too bad you couldn't have interviewed your father on tape. I'm sure he had some fascinating experiences!
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