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The same rules apply during war, too. If you had just sunk a Japanese ship, you were obligated to pick up survivors, if you could do so without risk to your own ship; it was fine to high tail it away if you thought that there were patrolling submarines or a bunch of torpedo bombers on their way, otherwise stop and collect.