Japan:Why America Forgave Them
The atrocities committed in World War II (WWII) were numerous on both sides. However the monstrosities committed in the Philippines at many of the American POW (prisoner of war) camps far outweighed that of their counterparts on American soil. Somehow, though, America seemed to forgive them. Why? It seems the answer lies at the cause of the capture and the Internment camps, not in the Phillippines, but in America.
There's a saying, give credit where credits due. Well one would say that applies here, because the capture of thousands of American soldiers was partly due to America. However one is not placing the blame all on America. It is "a saga of too little and too late a saga of supply when adequate supplies simply did not exist (Armold 1)." Doug MacArthur, after implementing plan orange, relised that he had spread his troops to thin. When MacArthur's 90,000 troops on Luzon reached the Bataan Peninsula after a two week fighting withdrawal, they discovered that adequate......
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