Re: World War 2
My grandad fought the Japanese in Burma, he always felt it was terribly unsporting when you had to gun them down after they ran out of ammunition, because they would come charging out of cover at you with swords and bayonet and knives rather than surrender.
The US pacific campaign was actually a terrible example of how to prosecute a war due to politics rivalries between services and most of all due to MacArthur’s incredible ego. So many american lives were thrown away by MacArthur to capture symbolic places of no tactical value. The man was just lucky… not gifted. His luck ran out in Korea when his incompetence could no longer be covered up by his good fortune.