Levi –
Letters from Iwo Jima was lying multicultural garbage from a desperate-for-approval Eastwood that did not distort history, but actively lied to get approval from Hollywood’s power brokers (who hate America).
Individual Japanese were NOT virtuous, rather they were guilty of appalling cruelty: from the Rape of Nanking where even hard core Nazis like Matthias Rabe were appalled: bayoneting infants, beheading girls, etc. To the beheadings and tortures of the surrendering Marines at Wake Island. To the horrors of Manila, equal to that of Warsaw during either the Ghetto uprising or the revolt against the Nazis.
On Iwo specifically, the individual Japanese soldier booby trapped his own wounded and dead, as well as ours. To kill US Navy Corpsman. The individual Japanese soldier would pretend to surrender under flag of truce and then shoot or grenade Marines accepting his surrender. After that was common knowledge, no surrenders practically were taken.
Conduct of the US Marines on Okinawa (particularly their care for the wounded civilians when they found them) brought huge shame to Okinawan civilians when they realized the US Marines possessed greater humanity and compassion than the Emperor’s soldiers. Who uniformly were cruel and sadistic to civilians and captured enemy alike. [Okinawa's fortifications were built by forced civilian labor.]
Clint LIED: Americans did not commit acts of “horrendous evil” it was the Japanese (who’s commanders sacrificed their men on the gamble that killing enough Americans would allow Japan to keep it’s slave empire) who did so over and over and over again. Particularly at Iwo Jima.
Read the accounts of MEN WHO WERE THERE, particularly E.B. Sledge of “With the Old Breed.”
Interestingly enough, Eastwood refused to comment on the Japanese strategy at Iwo and elsewhere: to kill enough Americans so that Japan could keep it’s slave empire. Deterring final attacks through slaughter, thinking Americans “weak” and casualty averse. It’s been the standard method of defeating America ever since.
In short I find you ignorant of history Levi, and filled with self-hatred for your own nation and military of which you should be proud of not ashamed. But then multi-culti nonsense is a religion.
