Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darkness & Fog. After their capture, they had lived in a cheerless, timeless, maddening limbo. They were occasionally moved from prison to prison. Nielsen was court-martialed, condemned to death, reprieved. That, at least, was exciting. Otherwise, there had been nothing to do. nothing to read, no mail, no Red Cross packages. Said Nielsen: "Nothing is the hardest thing in the world...
Also reported safe: Major General George M. Parker Jr., Wainwright's lieutenant; Lieut. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, commander of the marines in the heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941. (Colonel Devereux's mother and 27 -year-old wife had died since he went to prison...
Last week General Olmstead's men were ready. First, planes flew over the prison camps to drop leaflets warning the Japs that the parachutists were coming on a purely humanitarian mission. Then the transports flew over, unloaded their supplies...
...bewildered Jap prison-camp commander at Keijo, Korea said that he had no instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...
...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...