Re: [SGII] Furry troopers

Geoffery R wrote:
>  But when another field hostpital in an earlier battle had been
> overrun, the Australians had been force to kill patients who fought
from
> their stretchers and refused to surrender.

They wouldn't take much forcing. Some Australian POWs had been kept
alive as meat-on-the-hoof by retreating and starving Japanese in New
Guinea. 

One of the few atrocity stories about the Japanese that was actually
censored during the war, as it was judged to be unlikely to be believed.
But the troops at Bloody Buna had seen the gnawed bones, and were not in
the mood to take prisoners of anyone even hinting at resistance.  (The
people who did this cannibalism all starved to death anyway, it really
was a last resort for them.).
 
Sherman had it right - War _is_ hell, but some campaigns are more
hellish than others.

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