European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hes a weft rafted and dangerous foe who thinks Little of human even his in fighting for his divine the average japanese Soldier is an ignorant peasant and a band legged runt of a weak Ling who is no match at All physically or mentally for an american that what americans believe who Haven had anything to do with japanese americans who have fought them know the office of War information has issued an exhaustive report on the japanese Soldier and the japanese based on information from War department and other official and designed to Correct these commonly held misconceptions about the according to the the average Jap Soldier is 5 feet 3 inches and weighs 117 the average american Soldier is 5 inches taller and weighs 145 but that Doest mean the Jap is a he has great strength and endur Jap patrols have been known to Start out at Midnight and make a Point 60 Miles away by next marching steadily without a and an entire battalion can March More than 20 Miles a Jap rookies get most of their training in operational areas and sometimes they Are sent into combat areas in China for they do Gar Rison duty there and sometimes actually the Jap Soldier starts his Day at Twenty minutes later he appears for Roll Call and then he gets an hour to police his quarters and do other he eats breakfast at lunch at 1210 and dinner at the entire Day is spent Drill ing and studying and there Are very few when a Jap Soldier he is Apt to engage in a Little Bayonet at 1700 hours he be gins to study the lessons for the next and the study period lasts until with a 10 minute break at 2000 lights out is at As for the commonly held belief that the aver age Jap is an illiterate the own says that All too percent of the total Popula Tion can read or than we can say for the the average Jap Soldier has had at least two years in High which is also the average for the american Between 40 and 50 percent of the Jap soldiers have studied and something like 20 to 25 percent can speak it fairly this knowledge of English has caused the death of too Many japs try to lure yanks into giving away their positions by calling out in sometimes they memorize names they overhear americans using and later Call out to them in shooting when the person addressed shows american cartoons that show japs saying so Solly Are the the own because most japs cant pronounce l while they can say the Jap Soldier the Jap will say Rora Carooza for lol Lapa assuming he feels like saying lollapalooza at its the chinese who usually have trouble with the belief that the japs never invent anything but Only copy inventions of other people is an other american the Story of the japs stealing blueprints of a battleship from the Brit ish who had carefully phoned up the plans in then following them and building a ship that Sank As soon As it was is the japs Are just As inventive As any one they Are limited in their development of new weapons Only by a Lack of highly skilled technicians and machine the own says that in fighting endur Ance and All other departments except the Jap soldiers Are just about our their one fault is a Lack of individual once they adopt a they stick to it through hell or High whether sticking turns out to be smart or other soldiers will change the course of their plans if it appears that changes will be More but not the when an officer is killed his entire unit loses its effectiveness unless an officer of equal rank comes to take his Japan has had Universal conscription since be fore the As in other fascist Jap boys begin their military training in child at the age of 8 they get at least two hours of military Drill a week Between their 14th and 15th years they Are rated As youth and when they come of age they win the rank of Superior they Are later made Lance Cor like our become corporals after graduating from in peacetime All Able bodied males had to serve two years with the army sometime Between their 17th and 40th now highly skilled techno and skilled workers in air plane a and munitions Are exempted from military the strict caste system in Japan undoubtedly produces More Chicken in relations Between offi and men than in any other army in the but there is Opportunity for promotion from the there Are specialists schools in the tank Artil Lery and officers above the rank of Captain Are Gener ally graduates of the military Candi dates Are selected from a number of preparatory military schools where a three year course is noncom under privates under 22 and other candidates Between 16 and 18 who have proper physical and educational requirements May also attend the besides the Lance the japs have an other major difference in the rank have no equivalent to our brigadier though they have the other grades of general the title of Field marshal is simply an honorary rank awarded by the Jap soldiers have received pay increases rang ing from 80 to 100 percent to keep Pace with a rising Cost of even a Jap full general gets the equivalent of Only a month a master sergeant in our army gets a a Jap who is called a second class Pri makes a these Are not so great As they seem since the Cost of living is a lot lower in there Are several types of rations in the Jap the or Field ration weighs about 4v8 pounds and consists mostly of Rice and fresh meat and fresh vege tables and seasonings and the special Field ration weighs 3 pounds and is mostly Rice and canned or pickled this is the Type generally issued in the japanese mess kit is of same Type As that carried by the germans and ital it has under the cover an aluminium con Tainer with one or two tray like where the climate is not food for several meals is generally cooked same time and is carried ready to eat in the mess a Jap Soldier May carry one of several types of the one now in general use is a sack about 13 inches Square and 5 inches it generally holds extra a shelter half with poles and extra a toilet a sewing fir staid an extra Breech clout and several Days a Blanket or Over coat is rolled around the pack in a Horseshoe a Raincoat or shelter half goes across the coat and the mess kit is strapped to the Back of the whole the Jap medical Field kits contain a variety of drugs that have to be Patent medicines and Standard drugs such As iodine and aspirin Are used a great and the japs Are using increasing amounts of substitutes Tor qui the japs Are great believers in and they have powders and tablets and even Vita min solutions for the own says that the japs Are hard fighters and dangerous because they place a Low value on human particularly their they have two great incentives to risk their lives 1 the be taught from that their emperor is divine and that the greatest glory of a Jap is to die for the emperor 2 the encouraged by their that if they they will be tortured and a Maxim among the japs is that duty is weightier than a Mountain death is lighter than a one of the important Points of Jap propaganda is that All orientals Are enslaved and exploited by the White the Jap soldiers loyalty to his emperor conditions his whole attitude toward anything done in the interest of the emperor is so the Jap is not even mildly apologetic about such tricks As Boob trapping firing on Aid planting a body covered by an automatic weapon and then mowing Down troops who try to remove the or making use of the White Flag of truce to get close to the enemy for combat a Jap will try any if he thinks theres a Chance of getting away with according to the own har Akiri is in no Way a sign of it is an ugly and painful but it to the japanese a Symbol to the Al important emperor that the Soldier has done his since about japs have been that leaves about four million More japs in the with half that number in about japs Are Cut off on Island pockets and Are More or less out of the the War depart ment says that the japs can train and equip an other two million men without crippling their manpower employed in War of the dead american soldiers have accounted for at least Well have to kill a lot More before its