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Re: Italian subs machinegun survivors
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
()
Date: July 08, 2003 03:47AM
<HTML>Theo, et al:
After WWII, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander Pacific Fleet, testified that it
was not the practice of American submarrines to rescue survivors if such a rescue
would be an undue or additional hazard to the submarine, which was limited both by its small passenger-carrying facilities and by the suicidal and homicidal
tendencies of Japanese who were taken prisoner. It was, Nimitz testified, unsafe to rescue many survivors, although they were frequently given rubber boats and
provisions. Almost invariably, Nimitz wrote, any prisoners had to be brought aboard a submarine by force.
None of the American practices, he said, was based on reprisals against Japanese
submarine warfare. He had thought the unrestricted submarine warfare fully
justified by the tactics of the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
In the American orders the only exceptions to the unrestricted submarine war were the hospital ships and vessels that had beenn provided with safe conduct.
Furthermore, these orders had gone into effect on the first day of the war, December 7, 1941; they did not arise, as did the German measures, as a result of
developments of the war.
Later,
ROBERT M.</HTML>
After WWII, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander Pacific Fleet, testified that it
was not the practice of American submarrines to rescue survivors if such a rescue
would be an undue or additional hazard to the submarine, which was limited both by its small passenger-carrying facilities and by the suicidal and homicidal
tendencies of Japanese who were taken prisoner. It was, Nimitz testified, unsafe to rescue many survivors, although they were frequently given rubber boats and
provisions. Almost invariably, Nimitz wrote, any prisoners had to be brought aboard a submarine by force.
None of the American practices, he said, was based on reprisals against Japanese
submarine warfare. He had thought the unrestricted submarine warfare fully
justified by the tactics of the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
In the American orders the only exceptions to the unrestricted submarine war were the hospital ships and vessels that had beenn provided with safe conduct.
Furthermore, these orders had gone into effect on the first day of the war, December 7, 1941; they did not arise, as did the German measures, as a result of
developments of the war.
Later,
ROBERT M.</HTML>
