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Christmas Surrender (Part 1)
Mr. Durant talks about Christmas day and the events that followed after putting up the white flag.
Forty nine pound sledge hammer
Mr. Bourbonniere tells a story about working with a sledge hammer and getting punished by a guard.
On a boat to Japan
Mr. Bourbonniere talks about the conditions on the boat on the way to Japan with the other prisoners.
His brother Hector
Mr. Bourbonniere tells a story about helping his sick brother before he left on a boat for Japan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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