16" versus 18"

[Olle]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

The guy doesn't look Japanese, but the caption says;

Caption Men of battleship New Jersey humiliated a Japanese prisoner of war by forcing him to bath in public view, Dec 1944 ww2dbase
Photographer Charles Fenno Jacobs

http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=3780

That would go over like a turd in a punch bowl nowadays...

[George Anderson]

Originally Posted by Olle

That would go over like a turd in a punch bowl nowadays...

Yeah, the Japs were inclined to bayoneting and decapitation of POWs.