Author: Nordin, Carl S.
Library Binding; Hardback; Book; B&w Photographs, Maps, Index
256 pages
Published: February 1997
McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 0786402741
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On December 1, 1941, the authors unit was sent to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao to establish an air base. Less than six months later, on May 10, 1942, Sergeant Nordin was captured by the Japanese. For two years he was imprisoned on Mindanao before boarding a Japanese hellship destined for Moji, Japan. He spent the remainder of the war working on the railroad in Yokkaichi. Throughout his time in captivity, the author detailed the conditions and his thoughts on the camps in a secret diary that became the basis of this work. This powerful story recounts the horrors of the prison camps, the torturous journey on the hellship, and the little things that provided him and his fellow prisoners the strength to survive.Based on a secret diary he kept throughout his imprisonment, Nordin recounts his capture on Mindanao in May 1942, the voyage two years later to Japan, his work on the railroad, and life in the prison camps until the end of the war. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.