16" versus 18"

[DonVoigt]

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

I don't see how that would "humiliate" him; communal bathing would be a cultural norm.

He was probably very happy to get a bath!