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> A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan's Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.
> The Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the USS Benfold during a towing exercise.
> The U.S. guided-missile destroyer sustained minimal damage, and there were no reported injuries on either vessel, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet.
> June 17: The USS Fitzgerald collides with a Philippine container ship Seven U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Fitzgerald collided with Philippine-flagged container ship in the middle of the night off the coast of Yokosuuka, Japan, June 17.
> Aug. 21: The USS John S. McCain collides with a merchant ship Ten U.S. sailors were killed when the USS John S. McCain, named after the father and grandfather of Vietnam war hero Sen. John S. McCain III, R-Ariz., collided with commercial vessel Alnic MC in waters east of Singapore on Aug. 21, according to the Navy.
> The warship suffered significant damage to the hull, causing flooding in nearby departments, including the crew berthing, machinery and communications rooms, the Navy said.
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In WWII, Imperial Japanese infantry surrendered at astonishingly low rates compared to any other belligerent force. So was there an equal antipathy to letting sailors fall into Allied hands among the IJN?
I can imagine that the average Japanese sailor would rather not suffer what he perceived to be the shame of surrender, but was this carried out as a matter of policy among the upper ranks? Were doomed vessels ever crewed past any effective point in a sort of "let's go down with the ship" mentality?
Or is it a false equivalence to compare the relative close quarters combat and ease of surrender (and related virulent resistance to the possibility) of land forces to the staggering distances navies fought over in the Pacific?
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