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Mr. Devouge describes the American food drop in his camp, and resisting the urge to overeat. He also talks about being able to finally delouse his living quarters, seeing a concert at a local school and finally departing the camp by train.
Transcription
The Americans, they come over and they dropped parachutes and asked us to mark in the ground what we needed. They dropped a can of coffee, it went through the roof in the kitchen. They dropped big parachutes with fifty five gallon drums with cans all inside. And you know some of the men, they ruined their stomach, not me. I had a can on the window and I'd go and take a spoonful. But before we left there everything was clean. We asked the Jap could you give us a drum with a boiler for to put clothes in to steam them. He did, there wasn't a louse to be seen then, he sent each fellow a day, each room, cleaned it up fine. After the war was coming to an end they were better, they was scared. One of the head fellows had a long bayonet, he come, after the war, the night they signed peace on the boat; tore all the shades off of the lights, he said, "Tomorrow you are all going to come up, there's a school up there, we're going to have a concert for you." He was scared to death so he took us up there but you know it was nice, it was different to us.
Interviewer: How long did you stay in that camp before the allies came and took you away?
We stayed there until they came and got us. They took and they laid track, it was all blew out for miles, there was level ground, there was nothing standing, just like a fire had passed, nothing standing at all. And they laid the track and then two days after said alright, they’re gonna leave.