"Tom Gardner" Mars@Tacks wrote in message
...
... I still can't believe the Japanese were so lax, it's not their
style.

At least not their foreign image.

WW2 ace Saburo Sakai commented bitterly in his memoirs about how much
more care the Americans put into maintain healty conditions for jungle
troops and the far greater effort we made to pick up downed pilots.
They claimed they couldn't risk their few seaplanes.

jsw