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** The US Army had cavalry units in the Pacific War.
* [[Secret Weapon]]: The nuclear bomb. Even many of the people involved in the project weren't clear on what they were doing.
* [[Sex Slave]]: "Comfort women", who were allegedly enslaved by the (tens of? figures are sketchy) thousands by both Japanese. JapanThe hasauthenticity neverof apologizedthese forclaims this,is whichmuddied tends to be a sore point, and some Japanese have called intoby the questionfirst the testimonysource of thethese conscriptsclaims -being the[[North firstKorea]] 'comfortand woman' to come forward about her conscription only spoke out in theKorean historians'90s. Whichinability probablyto saysfind something for the nature of theperiod experienceevidence.
** And while sex with 'sub-humans' was frowned upon in the racialist climates of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, most of the abuses that went on in the concentration camps have gone unspoken and undocumented. This gives us hilariously horrifying testimonies to the effect of 'They were only human when we raped them'.
* [[Shark Pool]]: The fate of the USS ''[[wikipedia:USS Indianapolis (CA-35)|Indianapolis]]''.