A Hell on Earth
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Walter Moore Tank battalion officer, First Marine Division Took part in the invasion of Okinawa

The Japanese army had these spider traps with about 50 pounds of picric acid filler. It's a kind of a classic sight you didn't want to see at the time. They'd have a white bandana with a Japanese flag, bunch of hieroglyphics. They'd have this 50 pounds on their back, and literally stagger with it, because they're little guys -- come pop out of the hole and go right for the suspension system, and stick their head in it, blow themselves up. And you know what was horrifying about this, if I may say so, is that it didn't rain much. When it was real dry, you'd see chunks on the tank armor that look wet like mud. And you'd go over and scratch it, and it'd be human flesh. They'd literally blow themselves up.

Read about Japan's Ketsu-Go policy at the end of the war.