soc.history.war.world-war-ii

mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>Also, a large number of Japanese military, especially early in the war,
>were conscripts, both in the Army and Navy, and didn't re-up.

They were given the choice?

I know that in WW I, in the first year or
two, British soldiers who were pre-war
volunteers and whose enlistments expired,
left the army and went home.

But that was stopped eventually. U.S.
enlistments, whether voluntary or
conscription, were to end of hostilities,
and AFAIK, all the belligerents in WW II
did so.

Given Japan's extremely authoritarian
regime in this period, I find it hard
to believe that the Japanese military
would allow trained men to just walk
away.
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