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"They went down by twos and threes. Usually, they made an attempt to go up. I never can forget their groans and strangled breathing as they attempted to get right up. Some succeeded. Others lay lifelessly where that they had fallen...I seen that the Jap guards paid no focus on these. I considered why. The explanation wasn't long in arriving. There was a razor-sharp crackle of pistol and rifle flames behind us." (Captain William Dyess) On Dec 7, 1941, the Japanese military employed in a preemptive attack against the North american Pacific fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, but they also commenced maneuvers to assault the American manipulated Philippines. Although Basic Douglas A. MacArthur and Allied pushes tried to carry out, they could only combat a delaying action, and the Japanese were able to subdue all resistance by the spring and coil of 1942. However, in the aftermath of Japan's successful invasion, as the country's military strategists commenced preparations for the next thing of military actions in the theater, their forces got to deal with a crucial logistical problem that they had not foreseen. JAPAN had to deal with large numbers of Filipino and American troops who got surrendered after a lengthy protection in the Bataan peninsula, but they were not prepared for so many prisoners of war because their own military philosophy emphasized rigid discipline and fighting until the end. They cannot imagine a situation in which Japanese troops would willingly surrender, so they assumed that no other combatants would achieve this task either.
