Bomber boys - bbc one

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch

Hmm..... Also interested in Mr. Sternjaeger's opinion of Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/t...-meetinghouse/

Here's another one.

http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=217

A thing that we often forget nowadays is that the Americans had the same consideration of the Japanese that the Germans had of the Russians: Japanese code of conduct and fierceness didn't do themselves any favour, propaganda did the rest. Japanese were almost not considered human by most.

So whilst Germans might still have kept a sort of human side (all in all they had the same caucasian looks), Japanese were strongly mocked for their different looks. Only who fought against the Japanese learned the hard lesson that the Japanese were far from the clumsy, short sighted skinny wimps of the US propaganda.

Let's not forget that racism was still very strong in the '40s: white German POWs in the States were usually treated better than African American troops.