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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
4
Clark Lee chronicles the Nichols field slave camp near Manila where American prisoners, brutalized and sick, sought escape by self harm. Accounts describe beheadings, drownings, beatings, and public executions as Japanese captors imposed constant cruelty and staged punishments to deter dissent.
A June 1944 account recalls 25 word messages from home for prisoners of war after Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon landings. Guards who once smiled became harsher, while the writer warns true Japan lies beneath polished manners as seen at Nichols Field camp.
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