Is it true that some U.S. soldiers returned from the Pacific front of WWII with skulls and other bodily souvenirs of Japanese soldiers they killed? If so, how did the public react to this? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Is it true that some U.S. soldiers returned from the Pacific front of WWII with skulls and other bodily souvenirs of Japanese soldiers they killed? If so, how did the public react to this?

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Georgy_K_Zhukov

Yes, it is true that it happened. I touch on it in this section of a longer answer on looting and war trophies.