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[Carnotaurus]

I read somewhere, I think Wikipedia that the IJA had female combat medics in World War II,(Apparently a whole girl's school was conscripted and sent to some island at one point to act as medics for the Japanese garrison there, the girls all jumped off a cliff and into the sea as the Allied soldiers advanced on the island) is this true, and did it happen more times in WWII? I'd like to know for a story idea I had...

[Hobbes1098]

I don't know if they had female medics but I do know on most islands when the allies came the Japanese told stories of the horrible things the G.I.s would do to them. Naaturally most of the girls fearing rape would commit suicide. Of course most of this was a lie.

[Ash]

You'd hope it was. Raping civilians was prolly not so uncommon as you'd like to think.

Take the Soviets. I feel for any German civvies caught in THEIR path.

[Carnotaurus]

And the Americans, British, or Germans were any better? :S I'd hate to be caught in the path of any of the Allied soldiers. I'd imagine they'd be preeety pissed after having their lives being interrupted by Hitler's little campout in Europe.

[DemonWolf]

I read somewhere, I think Wikipedia that the IJA had female combat medics in World War II,(Apparently a whole girl's school was conscripted and sent to some island at one point to act as medics for the Japanese garrison there, the girls all jumped off a cliff and into the sea as the Allied soldiers advanced on the island) is this true, and did it happen more times in WWII? I'd like to know for a story idea I had...

I don't know, but the Japanese had quite a few nasty 'medical operations' during WWII.

Unit 731, anyone?