[Ads-l] "man" avoidance

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 25 02:43:50 UTC 2016


JL:  << 311 members of a fighter group were men >>
WB:  IIRC, the two females were nurses, hence non-combatant support.
Q:  If captured by the Japanese, would the nurses have been subject to
execution as "spies", as were all male members of the AVG?

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