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[Summer Wine]

Approximately seven thousand surviving Japanese, many grounded pilots and their air crews fled to Genyem. However this required a journey of one hundred and twenty five miles in the untracked jungle. Estimates state that only some FIVE HUNDRED survived.

http://www.irja.org/history/ww2.htm

[rapier]

Interesting summer W.

Such a thing seems a world away from what the current generation is used to I guess.But we could all be thrust into terrible world conflict again, very easily: some would say it is increasingly likely.

[Summer Wine]

The losses the Japs took are pretty incredible. 8000 in a swamp, 80,000 in the Philippine Mountains. We can't properly comprehend them today. Otherwise, you have to say 2000 in Iraq? (well that was a good day).

The losses we all took, I guess in the past. They blow your mind if you really think about it. These aren't numbers, these are people.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

And bizaare, too. Check out this WWII tale about a duel between a U-boat and a blimp.

http://www.goldcoast-railroad.org/blimpsub.htm

http://www.honorguard.org/stessel.html

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Nothing compared to the Bataan Death March.

[jinglejangle]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Oh yeah? Top this!

http://www.morningsun.org/living/longmarch/

The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was an historic journey of 6,000 miles, in which Communist army forces fled their bases in Jiangxi province in south China. Surrounded by the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek, some 80,000 soldiers of the Red Army escaped and headed north. Only 8,000 to 9,000 survived the trek, which ended in the establishment of a new Communist base in Yan'an. The Long March became the central event in Chinese revolutionary mythology. It became a metaphor for the revolution itself, and was a source of inspiration for Red Guards on their own "new long marches."

[Sooke]

War sucks.

The army sucks.

I ain't fu*king fighting!!!

[HBOMB]

Most of these numbers pale in comparison when considering what the Russians went through

World War 2 approximately 25 million dead, 16 million civilians and 9 million soldiers of which about half died in prisoner of war camps

On top of this was the death toll of about 25 million due to Stalins rule. Most of these perished in gulags or the infamous Ukranian famine, death toll of about 6 million, when Stalin decided to teach those Ukranians a lesson for questioning his rule.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Cheeky Ukranians how dare they question an insane egomaniac.