Quote Originally Posted by Beefy187 View Post
I'm going to quote wiki and I know what happens when I do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_..._War_II#Canada

This is what quick search got me. I won't say they are worse then axis. Surely we did awful things too. But allies weren't that different.
From the above link:

Unrestricted submarine warfare
In the Nuremberg Trial, German Admiral Karl Dönitz was tried, among other crimes, for issuing orders to target Allied civilians, a policy known as unrestricted submarine warfare. Dönitz was found guilty, but no sentence was imposed, because of evidence presented to the the Tribunal that the Royal Navy and the United States Navy had issued similar orders.

The US Navy applied the same policy to operations in the Pacific. According to Gary E. Weir of the US Naval Historical Center, because of the way war was waged in the Atlantic, "when Admiral Thomas C. Hart proclaimed unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan on 8 December 1941, it came as no surprise".

This provides an insight on how some war crimes have been judged, e.g.: a defendant can only really be punished if their opponent was not also utilising (or permiting) the same tactic.