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Originally Posted by Lancer44
Common American sentiment, as well as very same Australian attitude, was not viewing Japanese as inferior humans, but as animals.
Drastic, I know, but true.
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True. I guess that I was temporarily afflicted by the PC bug.
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Originally Posted by Lancer44
WWI statistics followed by Western European WWII statistics shows that only 1 in 10 soldiers fired his individual weapon actually aiming at enemy soldier.
Pacific war surveys shows that 8 out of 10 soldiers shoot to kill.
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Did this perhaps have at least something to do with the fighting enthusiasm/tactics of enemy soldiers? The link that you left leads to a file that cannot be opened by Acrobat so I can't see the paper. Are the statistics for soldiers of all nations, or just Western Allies? I'd be surprised if soldiers in rifle divisions on either side of the Eastern Front in World War II had such a low "aimed at enemy" fire rate.