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Description
Mr. Lecouffe describes the costly American air raid which leveled Tokyo. Ironically, the camp guards are forced to protect the prisoners from locals incensed by the devastation.
Transcription
They bombed the whole night there one night, they bombed the whole thing. We were all out in the yard in the air raid shelters and the gutters there for protection because we didn’t want to stay in the camp but the Americans knew we were there anyway but I’d seen planes flying over there they were shooting them down too. I mean the Japs were getting some of the planes and I’d seen even the mortars falling right out of the plane, the bombers, but they’d keep that up all night they didn’t give us no peace at all, kept that all night and the next day the Japs wouldn’t let us go out at all. The guards wouldn’t leave us out at all because the civilians would’ve killed us because as far as you could see everything was flat because they didn’t have houses like we have. I call that paper shacks that they had, that would be just flattened all over the place.
Catégories
Tokyo is Firebombed
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Second World War
Emplacement géographique
Japan
Campagne
Hong Kong
Personne interviewée
Lionel Lecouffe
Branche
Army
Unité ou navire
Royal Rifles of Canada
Occupation
Infantry
Date d’enregistrement
Durée
1:03