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174.21.148.248 wrote:

Stuff like this, in turn led the USN to adopt a no-mercy policy. AFAIK no mercy policy came into existance because there are numerous cases where IJN downed sailors carry hand grenades to blow themselves up (killing everyone near him as well) when being rescued by US ships.