Captain Saito

Saito was not a soldier. Saito was the Chief Medical Officer for the whole area of Hong Kong. I was up at Bowen Road one time, and I was up on the second end, had a big balcony all around, Bowen Road hospital by the way. It was up above and you could see all the harbour, this was on the Island. And this Doolittle came across, well I guess everybody heard about the Doolittle raid with planes that came over and dropped some bombs and it was gone. We guys all get under “Hey!” and we told old Saito, Saito came out. And there was about 30 of us. Saito happened to be a judo expert, a karate expert and they lined us all up and he could speak English, but with an accent. “You laughed, you laughed, you laughed at the Imperial Japanese Army, You laughed!” and he worked himself up to such a level he's screaming at us, oh he was in a rage. And finally he had a big sergeant stand behind each guy and he came, chop, chop, chop and the guy was out, gone. When I came to, I was about in the middle, and here we are all lined up, the whole line of us all lined up on one another, we were all cold, everyone of us. While we were there they were putting the boots to us to make us come to. The sergeant and a couple of them guards. That was Saito.