Marines Free 1100 Allied POWs on Formosa
Marine Sergeant Charles Livingston USMC aboard USS Block Island recounts leading a forty-man landing that liberated about 1100 Allied prisoners on Formosa. He describes conditions, the hot weather, and exposure to Japanese attitudes, noting deaths at Hiroshima and reflections on postwar attitudes while serving with occupation forces aboard USS Tuscaloosa and USS Astoria.
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