174 - The Pacific, August 1945
The WW2 Podcast
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The Japanese Military's Kill Order on Prisoners of War
The Japanese military had issued what became known as a kill order. It was a premeditated murder on an industrial scale. By and large, the attorneys and prisoners were provided with badly needed food and supplies within a matter of days. But that took several days to reach all of them because it was unknown to allied intelligence.
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