001. You can fix a field radio by giving it a stiff kick
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002. A nurse can give you an enema and be your lover even if you're impersonating an officer.
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003. Officers get better treatment in POW camps.
004. The British Army doesn't give you parachute training before you jump.
005. Officers are forbidden by the Geneva Convention from doing manual labor.
006. The Japanese suck at bridge building.
007. Burmese women really dig American guys
008. Leeches are really icky.
009. Japanese soldiers think it's funny to spit from a bridge.
010. Sometimes rivers go down in the night.
011. Colonel Saito shouldn't have left his knife in his office.
012. War is madness! madness!
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-The British Soldiers were ordered to surrender at Singapore against their will.
-Due to being ordered to surrender, prisoners lose their duty to escape from enemy prison camps.
-You can survive several days in a tiny metal shed with no food, water, or place to relieve yourself.
-British enlistees will cheer for their officers to not have to perform manual labor alongside them.
-Even though there is no barbed wire and no stockade and you'll die in the jungle, the Japanese guards will still shoot to kill you if you try to escape.
-Japanese prison camps allowed prisoners to wander around and meet in large groups as they pleased.
-Japanese prison camps never executed defiant officers because they were afraid that witnesses would talk.
-Japanese commanders were expected to kill themselves if their bridges were not completed by an arbitrary date.
-Japanese engineers were totally unaware that unstable mud would not support bridge beams.
-Japanese labor camp guards would allow British prisoners to recreationally leap off bridges they were constructing whenever they wanted.
-The British Army in 1943 was composed of about 90% Sri Lankan soldiers who opted to always stand in the far background so they would never be too clearly in focus.
-British Sergeant Majors would speak in some sort of strange, barely intelligible dialect while relaying orders.
-Sten guns were completely accurate and effective and would instantly kill whoever they were used to fire upon.