The Unit 731 was a covert department of the Imperial Japanese Army notorious for:
Show answer and explanation
Correct answer: Lethal biological and chemical warfare experimentation on humans
Based in occupied Manchuria, Unit 731 conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Allied prisoners. Most of the researchers were granted immunity by the U.S. after the war in exchange for their data.
Keep practicing
More Pacific War questions
- What was the significance of the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945?
- Which indigenous language was used by the U.S. Marine Corps to create an unbreakable code in the Pacific?
- What major power declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, between the two atomic bombings?
- What was the primary objective of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
- Which 1942 naval battle is widely considered the 'turning point' of the Pacific War, where the U.S. Navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft c…
- The U.S. military strategy of bypassing heavily fortified Japanese islands to seize strategically important ones was known as: