Original sentence: Allied soldiers often killed Japanese personnel who had surrendered.Niall Fergusson, in "Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat", states that not taking prisoners became standard practice amongst U.Relatively few POWS were taken, during combat, by either side in the Pacific War
Edited sentence: According to Aldrich it became common for U.In the Pacific War American and Australian soldiers massacred Japanese prisoners of war, according to "The Faraway War", a detailed study of diaries made by Professor Richard Aldrich of Nottingham University.S troops in parts of the Pacific War not to take prisoners.This analysis is supported by Niall Fergusson, in "Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat", who states that taking no prisoners became standard practice amongst U