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Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

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  • end manners had no appeal to Japs. Anyway we did not have this to worry about from the very beginning. Did the Japs mistreat Americans? This again is a frequent question and hard to answer. They did not beat, kick, or physically maltreat Internees as a group. Individuals were tortured, beaten to death, imprisoned for long terms, died by shot or were beheaded. Men were made to stand at attention without food or water all day for looking at out planes when the came. Three men who went over the wall in the early days were beaten so badly that to keep them from dying of tortures inflicted they were hurriedly court martialed. Three men once caught receiving foodstuff over the wall from Filipinos were beaten horribly and one is a cripple for life. An old doctor, 70 years old was kept hanging by his toes hours on end was beaten daily because of pure stubborness. He pretended to know a great many things and wouldn’t tell. Actually he knew little of importance to the Japs. An old friend of
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