Most people know about the plight of the P.O.Ws that were captured after the fall of Singapore i.e The building of the Railway and the Hellships but how did servicemen who were captured 1942 and later fare. Were they treated any different ?
The japanese usually tortured and killed POWs captured on the island of New Guinea. Often they cannibalized the ones they got on the Kokoda Track, and the 36 Australians captured at Milne Bay were ALL murdered. John.
Of the airmen shot down and captured on Chichi, Jima, north of Iwo Jima, all were killed, some ritually. The remainder were simply tortured and killed, then organs, such as the liver, were eaten by the island commander. For details, see Flyboys, by James Bradley.
Not a nice way to go out, such a pity some servicemen from the commonwealth and american alike died in such a way.
