During the closing days of the Okinawa campaign, Japanese infantry decided to treat the much-ballyhooed Bushido warrior code as if it was a plate of week-old sushi.
"The Japs didn't follow in surrendering. Some came in with their arms stiffly parallel pointing to the sky like a movie safe-cracker being surprised by a cop. Others had their arms extending like a bird in flight. Some voluntarily stripped to a loincloth to prove they carries no firearms or explosives. It wasn't even a German-type surrender, with troops neatly stacking rifles at predesignated dumps."
"Psychological warfare had been vigorously and intensively applied since March 25th. We dropped eight million pieces of propaganda behind enemy lines , including twelve editions of a newspaper and 45 types of leaflets. The newspaper informed the enemy of the ignoble death of Mussolini, the capture of Berlin and the end of the European war. Later we told them of the Atomic Bomb and the entry of Russia into the Pacific war."
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Pictured above is war correspondent Mac Johnson at work.
