For most of the war, Japanese military culture had made surrender virtually unknown among enemy forces — a fact that shaped every American operation in the Pacific. By 1945, however, increasing numbers of Japanese soldiers and sailors were laying down their arms, and the Bureau of Naval Personnel’s All Hands Bulletin marked this shift with “Japs Do Give Up.” Published in August 1945 — the month Japan’s emperor announced the imperial surrender — the article documented Japanese prisoners of war and the circumstances of their capture, offering American sailors an account of the enemy they had fought across four years of Pacific warfare.
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