re: WWII history buffs - Pacific theater island hopping

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The average Japanese soldier in WW2 is probably the best pound for pound soldier that has been fielded in the history of warfare.
For the most part, they were brainwashed psychopaths who were had no respect for life. The atrocities committed by them are notorious.
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They truly believed they were superior and held theirselves to a higher "standard". A large part of their logic in mistreating POWs was that surrendering was shameful and cowardly.