Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they were dumped into the prison camp at Amomori...
...ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging mad at what the Japs...
...Soong Sisters), got news in Manhattan about her English friend Major Charles Boxer, whom she described in China to Me as the father of her four-year-old daughter Carola. The ex-Chief of British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong had been found alive and well in a Jap prison camp, said the London Evening News. Said Miss Hahn: "He'll come home and marry me, of course...
Inquisition. For "recalcitrant" prisoners, and airmen from whom the Japanese hoped to extract information, there was special treatment. At Ofuna, a camp for unregistered prisoners, they endured months of solitary confinement and tortures. Husky guards took pride in breaking jaws and eardrums. At a Japanese prison camp, Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under...
...prison camps ten miles away U.S. prisoners were still starving...