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Samuel Robert Owens diary entries
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S.R. Owens TM 1/C U.S.Navy Well I am here in Bilibid in the hospital after being a prisoner of war twenty months and I’m still going strong, I never would have thought we would been here in this status this long because we have the richest and most productive nation in the world behind us, but I expect to see them some day. The Americans that I have come in contact with as prisoners of war have taught me much. I have learned to cook to sew my own clothes and many other things that I was dependent on some one else for. Some substitutes that I have used for common commodities have even amazed me. This episode, I do believe, will help me in later life to appreciate the smaller things in life that I always took for granted before the war started. Samuel Robert Owens
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Diary entries of Samuel Owens during a stay in hospital in Manila about his experience and welfare. Samuel Robert Owens (1918-1995) was stationed at Cavite Naval Yard in the Philippines when the United States entered World War II. He was a member of the crew of the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9), which was actively involved in the defense of the Bataan peninsula until the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942. The majority of the crew of USS Canopus, including Owens, were captured by the Japanese at Corregidor, and became prisoners of war. Owens remained a POW until the end of the war and received the Silver Star and Bronze Star for his service.
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