Re: Food Checkout Week

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I suggest that either likely would have resulted in the Japanese
>> killing off their civilian and military prisoners.
> 
> Very likely.  But there's no reason to prefer an invasion to a blocade
> or vice versa if the prisoners would be killed either way.
> 
>>> Of course what actually happened cost fewer American lives and
>>> fewer Japanese lives than either of those alternatives.
> 
>> Why are you specifying American lives, rather than allied lives?
> 
> Okay, I guess I should have said allied lives.  Americans tend to
> think of the European Theater as an allied effort, but the Pacific
> Theater as just US vs. Japan.

A lot of the civilian detainees were British women and children.

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