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  • [South Texas:]Exhibit lays bare Japanese prisoner of war camps

    06/01/2010 9:06:30 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 28 replies · 1,237+ views
    The Brownsville Herald ^ | May 30, 2010 | TRAVIS WHITEHEAD
    An enraged Japanese guard, the flaps of his hat flying into the air, charges with his bayonet toward an exhausted American soldier on the ground. In other works by Ben Steele, a Japanese soldier strikes a captured American across the face with the butt of his rifle, several guards stand over a withered American digging his own grave, and GIs drink from a mud hole. Copies of these works are currently on display at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. "I just kind of want to give people an idea of what went on over there," said the 92-year-old Steele...