If that film had the actor Aldo Ray in it, it's not a rare scene and could be more than one movie. In fact, maybe not a cigarette was involved, but Japanese "surrenderies" were shot in one of Clint Eastwood's latest war flicks..."Letters From Iwo Jima" released in '07 or '08.
This scenerio was also described in the Norman Mailer classic The naked and the dead
Because the Japanese fought to the death. They did not surrender.
American born Japanese.
Bataan Death March
Russian soldiers
around 21,000 Japanese died. 6,800 Americans died,with 20,000 Americans injured My information is from Daniel Yergin's book, the Prize, which i am reading now. I just read this section earlier this week
Because the Japanese fought to the death. They did not surrender.
Most of them were in shock.
None. The Japanese attacked the Americans.
Yes there ARE GHOSTS in Corregidor island. They are spirits of Japanese, American and Filipino soldiers who perished during the war! One particular disturbed souls is that of an American soldier who committed suicide before he could be killed by the Japanese soldiers
The estimate at the time by the american military leadership was: 2 million japanese and 1 million american soldiers.
Filipino and American soldiers whom were prisoners of the Japanese
There were thousands of people stationed at Pearl Harbor.
American born Japanese.
BAD because japan was not on the same side
Yes they hated the Japanese enough to the point that they celebrated the bombing of Japan.
Japanese soldiers forced their American prisoners to undergo the Bataan Death March.
Because the Japanese killed over a thousand American soldiers and some US citizens in Hawaii sparking war.