[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

This is a chance of a lifetime! I wish I was still in college. ;)

I learned about this contest in an e-mail rec'd from a Japanese POW listserv. The e-mail asked for members to help spread the word (to college students, friends & acquaintances working at a college or university) about the contest.

Please, send questions to Admin@US-JapandialogueonPOWs.org

Thank you.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Would you help me spread the news about this contest? I'd really appreciate it.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[Hoodat]

I read a great book on this by a guy who was captured at Wake Island and survived the entire war. I can't remember the name of it, though. It correctly portrayed the Pacific conflict as a racist war. It did a fine job of differentiating between the four types of Allied POWs - American, British, Australian, and Dutch. Although the Ducth were the least respected among the different POWs, they had the highest survival rate. The Americans and Aussies were most similar. The Aussies far and away had the best sense of humor. The Americans were the only prisoners who were guilty of killing their own.

[bill1952]

Read the Book "Flyboys," a first rate chronicle of Navy pilots captured during the war, their treatment and the events in Japan's recent history that led to such a perversion of Bushido that they encouraged the common crimes of beheading, obscene torture, and the eating of our American POW's organs.

As an aside, it also cover s the Chinese POWs and their treatment.

After 14 years of open war with China, Japan finally was forced to release all of the Chinese POWs. There were exactly 54.

[lp boonie]

BTTT

[tubebender]

I have been reading some books on Stalag Luft III, a camp for Allied Airmen in Germany. It was bad and the Death March they endured in a blizzard was horrible but those guys in the Pacific were treated worse than some caged animal. My brother was in Stalag III from mid 44 until the march in late Jan 45 to Moosberg and Stalag VII until Patton liberated them there.

I knew a guy that headed one of the groups that liberated the POWs in the Philippines. (Merrils Rangers?) His name was Bill Nellist.

[Doc91678]

My friend Seymour was captured at Bataan. He lived to see his grandchildren, yet was broken by what the Japanese did to him. He was liberated in Japan and was forced to work in a lead mine. Seymour was 70 pounds when he was liberated. He died five years ago.
His only comment to me was that the Japanese were ruthless and had no use for prisoners, other than to work them to death.

[Calpernia]

For reference:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts
Unit 731 - Research and Bump List. Gets Disturbing, Read at Your Own Risk

[Calpernia]

Who knows the 'little nickie' freeper? She needs to be pinged here; but I forgot her FR handle.

[Calpernia]

You may be interested in this!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If nothing else, this will help educate some younger people about the horrors that these men suffered and endured.

It is an unfortunate part of our history but it should not be forgotten.