The Worst Possible Fate For a B-29 Crew? 

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Nicely done video

Rude, could have prayed for her neighbour too. Talk about selfish.

@@kremepye3613 Arigato gaijin!

My Father flew over Japan 6 or 7 times in 1945 (only 3 times during the war). He always said that when remains are sent back to the US it's just a handful dirt from the execution site.

Of course now the japs are the good guys it was those naughty Chinese all along.

@@rogerlibby14613 How often does the subject of American remains come up?

@@MrChopsticktech I recall about 3 times ... my Dad would only talk about it if there was a news article on TV about Japan returning the "bones" of bomber crews.

They were dropping incendiary bombs on people's houses. Do you think Drone Joe will get clemency when they find his RV?

oh noooo, how dare the people who just bombed civilians get treated accordingly nooooooo

@@Jimpiedepimpie you know they started it right? Have you heard of the Rape of Nanking? And the thousands of other atrocities committed in the name of the Emperor before the Japanese mainland was ever targeted? The Japanese aren’t the victims in this.

If you were a German prisoner in Normandy, and knew the Americans were ordered to kill prisoners... you would feel anger too.

@@kadenbrown-cobarrubias5510 What an idot..

Thank you!

Yep. Japan was carpet bombed. Nukes don't exist.

unit 731 of the Japanese imperial army ? , sorry , never heard of it !!!

u mean the murdering pilots who bombed civilian targets with the intent to kill as many as possible!

And what about the bomber crew that murdered thousands of civilians, they got medals for that...

​@@KapitanPisoar1*hundredthousands

​@@dovidell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Glad you enjoyed it!

Not a episode, normal for the US. In my country Vietnam you dropped 480.000 tons of napalm and as much phosphorous bombs + agent orange you killed millions of inocents. 100s of thousands of children incinerated alive. ..that is the tradgedy you never learn

In the movie they're just civilians caught in events they don't understand, they're even children. From the civilian pov, the bad guys will be the people bombing them. I'm french, and my grandparents who were children at the time told me they were more afraid of allied bombers than they were of german soldiers. In fact they didn't saw a lot of germans during occupation, what they mainly remember of the war is the allies bombing their town. However it's true that Japan doesn't teach its people properly about its crimes during the war, unlike Germany where people are very aware of the horrors of nazism

The soldier about to be executed was Leonard Siffleet an Australian Special Forces radio operator, sent on a mission to Papua New Guinea to establish a coast watching station. In September 1943, his patrol was sent to Japanese-held New Guinea, to recon the Japanese forces stationed there. Siffleet and two other Australian soldiers were captured by local natives and turned over to the Japanese. All three men were interrogated, tortured, and confined for approximately two weeks before being taken down to Aitape Beach on the afternoon of 24 October 1943. Bound and blindfolded, surrounded by Japanese and native onlookers, they were forced to the ground and executed by beheading, on the orders of Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The officer who executed Siffleet, Yasuno Chikao, detailed a private to photograph him in the act. At the end of the war, Chikao was captured, tried for war crimes, and sentenced to be hanged; his sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment, and upon completion of his sentence, he returned to Japan. The execution of prisoners by beheading was not an uncommon practice by the Japanese. Under the code of Bushido that the Japanese military conformed to at the time, the act of beheading a captured enemy actually restored some lost honour to the foe, since warriors were considered dishonoured if they allowed themselves to be captured alive. In the eyes of the Bushido adherents, this “dishonourable surrender” justified the terrible treatment captured Allied prisoners received at the hands of the Japanese. The photograph of code of Bushido that the Japanese military conformed to at the time, the act of beheading a captured enemy actually restored some lost honour to the foe, since warriors were considered dishonoured if they allowed themselves to be captured alive. In the eyes of the Bushido adherents, this “dishonourable surrender” justified the terrible treatment captured Allied prisoners received at the hands of the Japanese. The photograph of Siffleet’s execution was discovered on the body of a dead Japanese major near Hollandia by American troops in April 1944. execution was discovered on the body of a dead Japanese major near Hollandia by American troops in April 1944. It is believed to be the only surviving depiction of a western prisoner of war being executed by a Japanese soldier. Published in LIFE magazine, it became one of the war’s most iconic photos. Siffleet is commemorated on the Lae Memorial in Lae, Papua New Guinea, together with all other Commonwealth war dead from actions in the region who have no known grave. A memorial park commemorating Siffleet was also dedicated at Aitape in May 2015.

@@timorvet1 Thank you! That was the best (and most interesting) comment I've ever read. You took a lot of time and I truly appreciate it.

The photo is of f an Australian commando executed in Papua New Guinea earlier in the war.

His name was Sgt Leonard Siffleet .The execution was in 1943 and the photo disciovered on the body of a dead Japanese soldier by US troops in 1944

@@fishpants3877 Cheers mate.

This is true of lots of history that is not taught. All history should be taught.

​@@TJ3 I agree

@socialist prepper absolutely right 👍

Yes. I think every country enjoys modifying history.

If you ever want to see the Japanese Historical Narrative on the war, go to the Yasukuni Shrine in Toyko. They allow westerners but do not allow pictures in some places where the Japanese perspective is written.

Correct. Very few images survive of the Japanese. Especially with POWs. Had to do my best.

@@TJ3 The comment was mostly for your viewers. Maybe you could explain this in the video. Keep up the good work.

That is in fact a pilot from New Zealand, he was shot down in his F-6 Hellcat and he along with a number of other aircrewmen were murdered after the surrender. One of the Japanese photographers had kept rolls of film that were confiscated and developed and none of them made it back to Japan, they were executed, summarily.

I think the overall point being they definitely took heads off.

I thought the same thing. I would probably have opted to have gone down with the plane.

The airmen in the documentary were killed just some days before the downfall of the Japanese empire. So if some insane Jap office wouldn't have gone crazy for "revenge" and after the executions also killed the witnesses on the last day of war, all of those men could have survived and lived a long life. That's the tragic of this story. But of course they are other gruesome and brutal stories waiting to be told.

​@@telekommandant but the Japanese officers all got out of prison in ten years or less. The big sentences were announced for press coverage, but never carried out. A metaphor for the whole Japanese peace. They got a pass the German leaders did not.

Japs had their livers for sushi no joke but then what about jap civilians kids burnt alive

​​@@jimwiskus8862 45 to the head if you please crew all had side arms

Not B29, but Avenger bombers. Six airmen were captured and eaten, one evaded capture and survived. He later become the US President George Bush Sr.

Typical democratic bull shit lol. They got what they asked for

The civilian population was producing war materiel. By doing so they lost their rights as civilians.

The entire war was replete with war crimes committed on all sides. Pointing fingers 80 years after the fact does Jack shit. Learning the lessons and making sure that it never happens again is the only real way to move forward.

@@gerardblack6859 That was a very poor excuse, just to justify their own war crimes...

Thank you!

they were savages.

@@kevinspacey5325 The Japanese Army was, for sure. Their theme was basically "no mercy".

nicee

I thank your Dad for his service!

@@squint04 thank you. I miss him.

Yet Burning children alive with incendiary bombs is Very Honorable , isn't it ? ...........

Exactly! Such an irrational response towards those complicit in your civilian population enduring saturation firebombings and the first and second use of nuclear bombs - bombs harnessing the power of the Sun. Completely irrational and dishonourable.

@@CM-ky3ow While sad it was necessary, Japan production was mainly focused in the home stead. And also the predicted death from the invasion of Japan would of been much greater. While it was sad it was the best of two horrible options. What makes what the officer did wrong is that the war had ended when he ordered the execution. It would be like America dropping another bomb even though peach had been reached.

@CM And what about the Japanese dropping barrels full of disease ridden ticks and fleas onto Chinese civilians? They had opened that door, and were reaping what they had sown.

@@CM-ky3ow soldiers should respect other soldiers when captured, these airmen didn’t make decisions about bombing, the japanese disgraced themselves by treating pow’s this way

He was a well-connected creep

The same thing happened (in parallel) in W. Germany: the U.S. elite wanted it that way. Read about John McCloy, I.G. Farben, the J.P. Morgan dynasty and Konrad Adenauer's 'amnesty' that saw almost all jailed war criminals released by 1958

I read a story about mcarthur once and they were talking about his father. The author said the father was the most arrogant man he ever knew. Until he met the son.

Not saying anything about right and wrong but I think there was a great deal of war fatigue in the US by the time war ended. I think what happened regarding war crimes reflected this fatigue.

We did what you wanted to do to the Japanese in Iraq. Everyone from politicians to school teachers , generals to privates in the army during Saddam's time were fired and forbidden from rejoining society. Turned what should've been a few months war into a decade long one. Moralizing is irrational, peace must be made and "defeated enemies" must be given opportunities or they won't stop fighting.

BS

You're sick

Yes, Rome who sent tanks into Ethiopia to attack people on horses and armed only with spears.

@@deadon4847 you mean like the U.S. and their treatment of American Citizens, or did you forget the roughly 1,600 Japanese American prisoners who died in U.S. internment camps during WW2 and those who lost their land.

Oh, I don't know, pictures of japanese soldiers bayonetting chinese babies, the cowardly attack on hawaii, the bataan death march, japanese officers EATING american soldiers, keeping foreign women as rape slaves, gruesome science experiments, convincing local populations of islanders to jump to their death while american soldiers tried to stop them. . . . all comes to mind. I feel no pity for the japanese people of that time. Those war criminals were their husbands, their sons, their nephews, their cousins.

Yep, I agree. As disgusted as I am at these atrocities, I can't imagine I'd take too kindly to someone raining fire on my town. I am a veteran and I sure have no empathy for my enemies, I think one has to be careful when disappearing down the rabbit hole of what is and what isn't abhorrent in war, it is usually decided by the victors who is a war criminal and who just acted in just retribution.

did we forget about the fire bombings in Europe where this approach was developed? did we forget about the human testing Japan did in China? close to as bad as the German camps.

Imagine how many people those guys dropping the bombs murdered...

Yeah, they were given ample opportunity to surrender, they were told what would happen if they didn't, and Japan's attitude was "We'll fight until every man woman and child gives their lives." That's on them. The same country that was allies with Germany. The ones that said "Ya know what...this Hitler guy... he's OK. We're with him." Definitely not a great bunch. Just saying.

@@karlepaul6632 what you said is absolutely true, but it do not dismiss what I said. I just find funny how he describe those two events, for him : soldier dying in war = HORRENDOUS war crime 200 000 civilian dead with 2 atomic bomb = earth changing event

Too much. Japan was still a fiuedal society then. Germany too.

I guess the deaths of roughly 1,600 plus Japanese American prisoners who died in U.S. internment camps at the beginning of the U.S. involvement of WW2, as well as those who lost their land as well as suffered was good payback for the atrocities Japan committed later in the war on POW's.

Not true. In 40 years of studying the war, I never heard of it, and a Google search l did just now doesn't have any results. It would be interesting to hear from Allies outside of the US, I may be wrong.

Australian prisoners under Nippon never forgotten bur were friends against imperial China now

@Monica Blewinsky Yeah, just ignore the war crime just posted by Sup. Go play with some string.

@Monica Blewinsky Get down under the desk of your chief and let your mouth make what you're expert to do... and is not talking about history and war's crime 😉