Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1945 — Page 10

five years.

We had been stripped of all our| found in a Japanese prison camp clothes, For three days we had| in Japan. ‘ lived on bread and water. : spent the night before Christmas machine gun. I thought to myself, piled two and three deep in a dug- | “This sure is a hell of a way to ‘out airplane hangar built for three die.” I was sure we were going to|

planes. It was a horrible night,

wounds. Slaves of Japan

The following day, Christmas, we|Stupid expressions on their faces. There] We were stripped of all our]

was jam for the lucky ones, before| clothes and taken to the airport

dined on bread and water.

the small supply ran out.

That afternoon the Japanese com- | center of the runway with machine- | mander lined us up and told us that|8uns meunted all around. Every Tokyo had consented to let us live.|One was naked. -The sun got warm, | “From now on you have no pro-|then hot. We sat and waited, Durperty,” he said. “You gave up every- ing «the day the heat became terthing when you surrendered. You!rific. We all suffered from sunburn, | do not own the air that’s in your|thirst and exposure.

bodies,

the building of greater Asia.

after five years.”

It was on Dec. 23, about an hour after we surrendered, that T saw my first Jap. He ran down the ramp of the hospital bomb shelters and motioned for us to come out. The Japs lined us up quickly, We spent all the next day, the searched the dugout and put a 24th, on the airport. Toward even- | guard over those who couldn't move ne they gave us small chunks of |

because of wounds,

The guards moved us up the road | | meal in 36 hours, That night the | and made us sit down facing a

Naked Wake Heroes Told: "You Are Slaves of Japan’

By JOSEPH F. McDONALD JR. The world already knows the United Press Staff Correspondent - MANILA, Sept. 19.—~On Christmas| Wake island by a small band of Day, 1041, I stood: in the broiling| U. 8, marines immediatley after sun with 1500 other naked, hungry( the attack on Pearl Harbor. Here Americans, survivors of the battle! is the first of three dispatches of Wake island, The Japanese| telling what happened to the galcommander told us that’ we were| lant [little group of Americans the slaves of Japan but that if we| after they were overwhelmed by co-operated we would be allowed| the Japanese and forced to surto bring our wives to Japan after| render. It is written by a United

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be shot on the spot and probably |

of the Japs. They were very small, | extremely dirty, unshaven, with

{where prisoners were put in the]

About 7 p. m. we had our first

Feeling of Rolief

port. It got extremely cold, We! still were stripped naked. Many of | the men had dysentery or were (wounded, but no attempt was made to help them, Every attempt made | y one of us was stopped by the {Japs immediately.

bread and more water—our first

Japs herded us into the dugout hangar where, despite the discomfort and stench, at least we were! warmer through the chill night. | The announcement on Christmas | day that we were to work for Ja- | ‘|pan brought relief because it broke the mounting suspense of not know- | ing what would happen to us. | The Japs put us fh barracks, three hundred to a building. The! buildings were built to hold one! hundred. The shelter, any shelter, seemed swell at the time, like a | Christmas present, after three days on the airport, naked under the! glowing tropical sun and shivering | through the cool nights. * Entire Group Punished We found some makeshift cloth-| ing in the barracks and the Japs! set us to building barbed wire beach defenses, cleaning up debris, search- | ing for bodies and uncovering food | caches. We were given instructions]

every order without a show of deflance, with the proper attitude. If any individual disobeyed a rule, the entire group was punished, Our dally routine was to rise at) (5 a. m. Tokyo time. Then roll-call.| | Breakfast at 6:30. Begin work at| 7. Lunch at noon, work until] supper at 4:15. Lights ‘out at 7,| and inspection by the Japs at 7:15. The only break was the possibility of being assigned to a work party looking for food caches. 1f you were in the lucky party you usually were able to eat all you wanted of canned foods and you always could smuggle some into the barracks for the less fortunate,

Order for Removal

On Jan. 11 each of us was briefly questioned and about 350 were se-

would have been if an officer had| lying down, standing, kneeling, sit-|not come along and marched us ting. The air was heavy with the farther up the road. odor of unwashed bodies and open| I was amazed at the appearance

lected to remain on the island. The rest were to be moved, We didn't {know where. It was sald that we | were going to be exchanged at sea; Ithat we would be sent to South | America and released, We heard that we were going | | every. place for. every reason but {few even thought of Japan. Next | morning we were told to get ready | {to move, We didn't know where we | {were going or why but we all hoped {and thought it was to be something | | better than being a prisoner on {Wake island. Had we only known. |

| (Tomorrow: The Japanese Prison , Ship.)

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