Slave Labour Selection

Interviewer: What do you recall about the selection process?

We were all bent over, and our rectums were examined for parasites, for dysentery. That was one of the things and I didn't see him ever use his stethoscope or anything to test a mans heart, or blood pressure, or anything, and that was just about it. If you could walk, you could go on the draft. One of the questions the doctor asked us when we were getting ready for the, any of the drafts that were going to Japan, if you could get a hard on in the morning.

Interviewer: Now what would, what would that mean?

That meant that you were in good health, I guess.