1942-1945
SERIES VII
Anti-Tank
Unit on Bataan
(National Archives)
Gen. Clinton
Pierce (far left) Interrogating Japanese
Prisoners
on Bataan
(National Archives)
A Town in
Bataan Destroyed by Bombing and Artillery Fire
(Philippine
Free Press)
Capt. Tsuneyoshi
Yoshio
Capt. Yoshio
was the Japanese Commandant of Camp O'Donnell.
Under his
care and leadership, approximately 1600 American POWs and 8,000 Filipino
POWs died, in only 45 days. For his crimes, Capt. Yoshio spent 6
years in Sugamo Prison. Under the terms of the 1951 Peace Treaty,
he was granted complete Amensty. Never did such a murderer escape
justice.
(National Archives)
The Brazil
Maru
The Brazil Maru carried with her the survivors from the Oroyku Maru and the Enoura Maru. She sailed from Korenko, Formosa to Kyushu, Japan. She was bombed twice, but hobbled to port. 268 POWs were lost: 264 Americans, 2 British, 1 Norweigian, and 1 Australian.
(National Archives)