One of the many deeds of the U.S.NAVY...War crimes

Phil said

	dominic, there are plenty of American atrocities to talk or write about so you don't have to make them up like your submarine story. That is a lie!

The murder of Japaneses troops in the water after the USS Wahoo (American submarine SS-238) sank a Japaneses Troop ship.
Very few Japaneses prisoners were taken during the war. This was the main reason the Japaneses fought to the death, rather then surrender.

Re: USS Wahoo (SS-238)
Posted by:
Ken Dunn


Date: July 14, 2003 10:35PM

Hi J.T.

Well the account by Padfield is also pretty explicit, even describing
the water as "and the sea stained red" (Page 343). Also the quote from
Morton in Blair's book: Later Morton reported tersely, "After about an
hour of this, we destroyed all the boats and most of the troops" (Page
385) is pretty damming. He certainly knew he was killing people not
just sinking lifeboats. How proficient he was at it is a moot point.
Murder is murder and under those conditions it is a war crime. All that
is debatable is the magnitude of the crime, not the crime itself. It is
also the same crime Eck was executed for.

Wahoo (Dudley "Mush" Morton)26 January 1943
3 Japanese Ships-Names Unknown-Pacific Ocean.

SS Wahoo SS-238
On his first patrol Morton torpedoed and sank three Japanese
ships, one of them a troop transport with thousands aboard. After
surfacing, Morton, who had an "overwhelming, biological hatred of the
enemy", appeared determined to kill every one of the thousands floating
there. The Japanese in the boats and in the water were subjected to
more than an hour of shelling with 4-inch and 20mm rounds which ripped
through timbers, flesh and bone,staining the sea red,and attracting
sharks. It was a total massacre. Morton made no attempt in his
subsequent report to hide the massacre. On arrival at Pearl Harbour,
Wahoo was flying a pennant with the boat`s slogan "Shoot the sunza
bitches" printed on it!!! Morton claimed to have sunk 5 Japanese ships
totolling 32,000 tons*, and became an instant hero in the US submarine
service. Admiral Lockwood christened Wahoo the one-boat wolf pack and
most unusually released the story of the patrol to the press. All US
submarine activities were normally kept secret to avoid giving the
enemy any useful information. Not for nothing was the submarine arm was
known as the "Silent Service". The massacre of the survivors from the
transport was not reported, nor questioned by the US Navy Stuff. Morton
was decorated with the "Navy Cross" medal!! *(After the war this was
reduced to 3 ships totolling 11,300 tons) [Padfield:"War Beneath the
Sea"]