There's a book...
..called 'Forgotten voices of the 2nd world war" - its just a massive collection of recollections from books, diaries, radio shows, quoted conversations - all sorted by year and battle

It's quite striking that all the Burma veterans quite freely admit that they had no interest in saving japanese lives or taking japanese prisoners. They had the greatest respect for them as soldiers but as prisoners considered them vermin to be eliminated. One account states that a particular unit never allowed a single enemy soldier to surrender alive for the entire war, and any who were captured were bayonnetted

I guess it got a bit personal.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Mon 11 Aug 2014, 18:37, Reply)