[Crispy's Critter]

in hindsight it was criminal, but at the time, hard to say. The war was already over, Japan was already preparing to surrender. The war would have been over very shortly anyway, as Japan had pretty much lost all their navy and fighter planes, which was supposedly what the Japanese military minds saw as their strength*. However, not sure if that was something that was known or rumoured at the time, or if it only came out years later. So as I said, in hindsight it doesn't look very good, but really without knowing what the US military heads knew or didn't know at the time it's pretty hard to make a judgement on it.

*I should also say that I got that from a book series on the war when I had to do a paper on the siege of Leningrad in high school, so could have been false or rumoured information published as fact.