I've seen ships run over rafts and lifeboats. Especially fast moving DDs, and DEs.
Most Japanese airmen and sailors would commit suicide before being taken by the Americans as POWs. There is a video in color over at one site where a downed pilot blows himself up with a grenade instead of being picked up by the sub crew. It's just the way they were. Sadly, it cost the Japanese more in the loss of experienced men in the longrun.
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A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
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