Traveling to Japan
Heroes Remember
Traveling to Japan
Transcript
They decided that we were going
to go to Japan or at least they
loaded us on boats.
There were a lot of guys that should
never have gone, I'm sure.
Guys that had been badly wounded,
guys that had been very sick and
the result, of course, when they loaded
them into the hold of these damn boats,
these sicknesses spread because they
were just packed in there
like sardines and
so when we got to Japan we
were right back to square one,
right back to...
it was sickness and misery.
You had to scramble to get to a bathroom
if you could make it, and some, of course,
didn't make it.
It was a hell of a stench.
After a day, first day or so it
was really terrible.
The food was lowered down in
buckets and first come,
first serve sort of thing.
Description
Mr. Agerbak tells of the conditions aboard the ship from Hong Kong to Japan.
Borge Agerbak
Borge Agerbak was born in Odense, Denmark and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1927 to a small town in southern Manitoba called Pilot Mound. Mr. Agerback worked on the farm until war broke out in 1939. Along with his two brothers, he decided to join the Winnipeg Grenadiers.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- July 17, 2013
- Duration:
- 1:09
- Person Interviewed:
- Borge Agerbak
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Japan
- Battle/Campaign:
- Hong Kong
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