Trip to Niigata
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Trip to Niigata
We went on a coal boat from
Hong Kong to Japan that were
loaded with boats and everybody was
crowded onto the hold, the black hole.
And it took about 17 days to go to Japan.
We stopped in well, today’s Taiwan,
it was Formosa at that time.
We stayed there for I
don’t know how many days,
four or five days and they
didn’t let us out or nothing,
just starving and hot and then we
kept on going from there and
I ended up in Niigata prison camp
working in the foundry for the next two years.
But the last year I made out okay because
I kind of fooled them. I don’t know,
I had a bad heart and I just passed out.
I didn’t really pass out I just
let on that I passed out.
So the doctor told them I had a bad heart so
they sent me to camp and I stayed there
for the last six months of the war so
I kind of fooled them for some time.
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