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No Place To Hide
Mr. Billson describes feeling threatened by the Japanese no matter where he was on the island. He recalls feeling particularly vulnerable at Stanley Fort.
Japanese Hierarchy Of Discipline
Mr. Billson describes the Japanese habit of slapping prisoners as a disciplinary measure, but explains that it is merely an extension of the Japanese military culture.
I was put on a drill.
Mr. Billson describes his duties in the coal mine as a drill operator, the extraction procedure, and the potential risks of working in the mine.
Measures of Japanese Successes
Mr. Billson describes how the POW’s treatment by the guards generally mirrored Japan's successes and setbacks in the war.
Crude Medicine
Mr. Billson describes two incidents where he received crude medical treatment. One was having a gash above his eye doused in alcohol and stitched without freezing, and the other was an aching tooth that was packed with cotton and soaked with carbolic acid.
The War Ends
Mr. Billson discusses how work in the mine suddenly ended, signaling Japanese capitulation, and how the guards were all gone the following day.
A Dangerous Food Drop
Mr. Billson describes a terrible irony of being liberated. Two POWs are killed when pallets parachuted in by the Americans strike them.
A-Bomb Aftermath
Mr. Billson describes viewing the devastation after the bombing of Nagasaki. The only intact things he sees are few porcelain toilets. He also describes how the blast had rolled all the sod up the surrounding hills.
First Taste of Freedom
Mr. Billson describes arriving in Manila, being immunized by Australian nurses at an American hospital, and being given two hundred dollars American.
Railway Battalion in France
Mr. Martin briefly describes how the allies narrow gauge railway tracks were laid, and how numerous shell holes limited the range of the lines.
Getting the Nerve to Fly
Mr. Dungey relates his experiences of flight training with an Australian Instructor
Call Signs and Radio Silence
Mr. Dungey speaks about the call signs and search lights that indicated proper flight direction
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