Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Pals. In Davenport, Iowa, Pfc. Kenneth J. Schneider and Pfc. Edwin R. Gould, who were inducted together, went overseas on the same ship, were captured at the same time, stayed in the same prison camp, were liberated on the same day, returned to the U.S. on the same ship, arrived home on the same train, finally were discharged at the same time with the same number of points...
Last week, five days after his 62nd birthday, after three years and three months of isolated captivity, he found out. Rescued from his prison camp at Sian, 100 miles northeast of Mukden (TIME, Aug. 27), he flew into Chungking and a warm and wonderful welcome...
...innocent of any crime. Yet he had spent three years and four months in Sing Sing prison for a forgery he did not commit. Last week portly Bertram M. Campbell (TIME, Aug. 6), a free man again, got a magnanimous pardon from the state...
...planes swooped over Jap prison stockades to drop food and supplies. U.S. trucks and cars wheeled into prison compounds to pick up bony, half-naked men. Aboard U.S. transports and hospital ships they were bathed, fed, clothed, given medical treatment. Then, like men awakened from nightmares, they talked...
Almost all suffered from malnutrition. Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels. They had been beaten and kicked, forced to bow, to obey endless rules invented by their captors...