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TIL that the Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese civilians in response to the Doolittle Raid. Chinese people who aided the American airmen were tortured before they were killed. The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens.

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