A Day In The Life Of A Prisoner In The WORST Japanese POW Camps - A Day In History
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Date: 2022-09-18
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Richard
general Percival relied on around 1000 men from the 2nd batt E. surrey, 1st Leicester and a small Ghurkha contingent to combat the Japanese invasion of Malaya, while he sat with 90, 000 troops in Singapore.
after their first engagement at jitra they numbered 768 men in total and were reformed into the 'British battalion', these same men fought for two months continually, retreating towards Singapore. by the time they reached Singapore - which quickly surrendered - the battalion numbered 265.
they spent a few months in Changi then moved to Chungkai to work on the railway (kwai river bridge etc) they lived on a ration of one handful of rice per man per day.
149 of the 265 then died from starvation and brutality in the camp. at liberation, 116 men out of 1000 were still alive. for those captured at Singapore the average mortality rate was 25%. 75% survived. but the surrey/Leicester/Ghurkhas had a 75% mortality rate in combat (dont send light infantry against tanks/artillery and air support without any for themselves! ) and then in captivity a mortality rate over DOUBLE the average.
my grandfather served in D coy 2nd E. Surreys he survived and sure he hated the japanese and anything japanese, but nowhere near as much as he hated General Percival
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general Percival relied on around 1000 men from the 2nd batt E. surrey, 1st Leicester and a small Ghurkha contingent to combat the Japanese invasion of Malaya, while he sat with 90, 000 troops in Singapore.
after their first engagement at jitra they numbered 768 men in total and were reformed into the 'British battalion', these same men fought for two months continually, retreating towards Singapore. by the time they reached Singapore - which quickly surrendered - the battalion numbered 265.
they spent a few months in Changi then moved to Chungkai to work on the railway (kwai river bridge etc) they lived on a ration of one handful of rice per man per day.
149 of the 265 then died from starvation and brutality in the camp. at liberation, 116 men out of 1000 were still alive. for those captured at Singapore the average mortality rate was 25%. 75% survived. but the surrey/Leicester/Ghurkhas had a 75% mortality rate in combat (dont send light infantry against tanks/artillery and air support without any for themselves! ) and then in captivity a mortality rate over DOUBLE the average.
my grandfather served in D coy 2nd E. Surreys he survived and sure he hated the japanese and anything japanese, but nowhere near as much as he hated General Percival
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John
Thank you for this truth. Many today will not believe in the sadism of the Japanese towards POW's during WW2.
They brush them off because they prefer to believe the fantasy's of Japan pre opening and they like Japanese anime.
The Japanese and their supporters are even now denying the truth of the Rape of Nanking and trying to put their own 'spin' on it.
I remember decades ago the Japanese Government very loudly proclaimed that every woman who was put into their field brothel's were volunteers. This caused a massive reaction from survivors whose choice was go there or have their family's shot in front of them. The Japanese government later apologized for the statement, very very VERY quietly, on the back pages.
The Japanese government doesn't even teach what happened to POW's in WW2 to their own citizens who are then shocked to learn the truth when they travel outside Japan.
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Thank you for this truth. Many today will not believe in the sadism of the Japanese towards POW's during WW2.
They brush them off because they prefer to believe the fantasy's of Japan pre opening and they like Japanese anime.
The Japanese and their supporters are even now denying the truth of the Rape of Nanking and trying to put their own 'spin' on it.
I remember decades ago the Japanese Government very loudly proclaimed that every woman who was put into their field brothel's were volunteers. This caused a massive reaction from survivors whose choice was go there or have their family's shot in front of them. The Japanese government later apologized for the statement, very very VERY quietly, on the back pages.
The Japanese government doesn't even teach what happened to POW's in WW2 to their own citizens who are then shocked to learn the truth when they travel outside Japan.
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GeorgePDogg
One of the pictures that's supposed to be a Japanese POW camp for Allied POWs, is actually one of those internment in the United States, that was for Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States. At 1. 27, that's Eastern California with the Sierra Madre Mountains in the background. Those people in the fore ground, those are Japanese Americans, schlepping their luggage to their new home in the American desert!
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was a segregated unit of Japanese American soldiers, from these very Japanese internment caps, that with fought, with great distinction, in Northern Italy! After serving in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Daniel Ken Inouye, went on to serve as a U. S, Senator from Hawaii!
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One of the pictures that's supposed to be a Japanese POW camp for Allied POWs, is actually one of those internment in the United States, that was for Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States. At 1. 27, that's Eastern California with the Sierra Madre Mountains in the background. Those people in the fore ground, those are Japanese Americans, schlepping their luggage to their new home in the American desert!
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was a segregated unit of Japanese American soldiers, from these very Japanese internment caps, that with fought, with great distinction, in Northern Italy! After serving in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Daniel Ken Inouye, went on to serve as a U. S, Senator from Hawaii!
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Chris
February 1942 saw the capitulation of the British Army of around 130, 000 men Australians, Indians and British to the Japanese at Singapore this also includes men from the Mayalian campaign who had fought a fighting retreat onto the island state. What followed was roughly 3 and half years of brutal captivity. Thousands of allied prisoners were put to work on the Thai Burma railway. Starvation, overwork and barbaric treatment led to deaths of around 55, 000 men this excludes the men that died on death the ships bound for Japan.
Not often mention is the indigenous people's that were pressed into forced labour by the Japanese it's said that the deaths run into the tens of thousands sadly no records were kept.
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February 1942 saw the capitulation of the British Army of around 130, 000 men Australians, Indians and British to the Japanese at Singapore this also includes men from the Mayalian campaign who had fought a fighting retreat onto the island state. What followed was roughly 3 and half years of brutal captivity. Thousands of allied prisoners were put to work on the Thai Burma railway. Starvation, overwork and barbaric treatment led to deaths of around 55, 000 men this excludes the men that died on death the ships bound for Japan.
Not often mention is the indigenous people's that were pressed into forced labour by the Japanese it's said that the deaths run into the tens of thousands sadly no records were kept.
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Bettiann
Could you do one on female POW's threw out WW2 and the state of China during the entirety of WW2 also you forgot to mention in this video about the Japanese soldiers not only for intimidation but to make sure they wouldn't scream out would chop off the tongues of their imprisoned soldiers from India Australia China and the Americas also you failed to mention about the death march that took in place in the Philippines pows were forced to take these marches to see if they could make them work from one camp to the next on low food and March hard the most famous one was the one in Laddy
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Could you do one on female POW's threw out WW2 and the state of China during the entirety of WW2 also you forgot to mention in this video about the Japanese soldiers not only for intimidation but to make sure they wouldn't scream out would chop off the tongues of their imprisoned soldiers from India Australia China and the Americas also you failed to mention about the death march that took in place in the Philippines pows were forced to take these marches to see if they could make them work from one camp to the next on low food and March hard the most famous one was the one in Laddy
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RTStx1
And also not well known the Japanese did to the Chines what the Nazi's did in Germany, testing on the Chinese populace including releasing the black plague. Both used buildings that looked like a business: IE a wood factory but also Olympic stadiums to not gain attention. But it is said the Japanese outdid the Nazi's in this regard but it is not taught for some reason.
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And also not well known the Japanese did to the Chines what the Nazi's did in Germany, testing on the Chinese populace including releasing the black plague. Both used buildings that looked like a business: IE a wood factory but also Olympic stadiums to not gain attention. But it is said the Japanese outdid the Nazi's in this regard but it is not taught for some reason.
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CaptHollister
Shamefully, Japan refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. They teach their children that Japan was a peaceful nation that brought modernity to its neighbours and were unjustifiably attacked by the Allies. They teach their children that comfort women were willing volunteers. They honestly believe themselves the victims of the war.
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Shamefully, Japan refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. They teach their children that Japan was a peaceful nation that brought modernity to its neighbours and were unjustifiably attacked by the Allies. They teach their children that comfort women were willing volunteers. They honestly believe themselves the victims of the war.
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Percy
Sandakan camp; 2, 500 P. O. W. 's at the start and the only survivors in 1945 were 6 Australians who had successfully escaped. The only feelings I have for Hiroshima or Nagasaki are for the P. O. W. 's used as slave labour there where a number survived by being in the holds of ships or down in coal mines when the A Bombs detonated.
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Sandakan camp; 2, 500 P. O. W. 's at the start and the only survivors in 1945 were 6 Australians who had successfully escaped. The only feelings I have for Hiroshima or Nagasaki are for the P. O. W. 's used as slave labour there where a number survived by being in the holds of ships or down in coal mines when the A Bombs detonated.
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Christopher
I read a book (can't remember the title) written by a British soldier who worked on the real railroad project connected to the REAL River Kwai Bridge. Among the various horrors afflicting the POWs was that completely unlike the famous movie their uniforms quickly rotted and fell to tatters leaving them to work almost naked.
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I read a book (can't remember the title) written by a British soldier who worked on the real railroad project connected to the REAL River Kwai Bridge. Among the various horrors afflicting the POWs was that completely unlike the famous movie their uniforms quickly rotted and fell to tatters leaving them to work almost naked.
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David
My grandfather became a POW at the battle of Wake Island. After the US military surrendered, they were taken to the beach with only their skivvies on and tied up with barbed wire to be killed. Their saving grace was that a Japanese admiral admired their fighting spirit.
Be safe and be
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My grandfather became a POW at the battle of Wake Island. After the US military surrendered, they were taken to the beach with only their skivvies on and tied up with barbed wire to be killed. Their saving grace was that a Japanese admiral admired their fighting spirit.
Be safe and be
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Geoffrey
In a similar fashion, the Filipino and American soldiers in Bataan Philippines endured the horrors of the Death March which is still celebrated here in the Philippines on April 9th each year as the Day of Valor.
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In a similar fashion, the Filipino and American soldiers in Bataan Philippines endured the horrors of the Death March which is still celebrated here in the Philippines on April 9th each year as the Day of Valor.
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David
My mothers brother in law Randal Roth was a surviver of the Bataan death March and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for most of the rest of the war and would have nightmares about it for the rest of his life.
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My mothers brother in law Randal Roth was a surviver of the Bataan death March and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for most of the rest of the war and would have nightmares about it for the rest of his life.
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Anita
One wishes that, the ignorant and unjust, people should stop complaining about, so much about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were Weapon industries. the Americans were, Ok, really, only 2 bombings,
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One wishes that, the ignorant and unjust, people should stop complaining about, so much about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were Weapon industries. the Americans were, Ok, really, only 2 bombings,
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Patient
Nazi and Imperial Japan during world war was bad, but the AXIS allies got away from being mention from the history books for helping them spread murder and subjugation of other nations.
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Nazi and Imperial Japan during world war was bad, but the AXIS allies got away from being mention from the history books for helping them spread murder and subjugation of other nations.
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Buick
And today everyone doesn't remember the Japanese atrocities and is driving Japanese cars in America. Japan has never apologized for the crimes they committed during the war.
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And today everyone doesn't remember the Japanese atrocities and is driving Japanese cars in America. Japan has never apologized for the crimes they committed during the war.
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Stuart
Prisoners were made to bow to all Japanese soldiers. Sabotage on the Thai railway was often placing white ants under main bridge supports. My father was at Hellfire Pass.
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Prisoners were made to bow to all Japanese soldiers. Sabotage on the Thai railway was often placing white ants under main bridge supports. My father was at Hellfire Pass.
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education
Should mention the kindness that was afforded the Guards after their surrender. Allied command had the rein in the troops before they exterminated the entire race.
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Should mention the kindness that was afforded the Guards after their surrender. Allied command had the rein in the troops before they exterminated the entire race.
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Random
All of the Japanese in the military, including the emperor should've committed rutual suicide for surrendering since they found it so dishonorable. such cowards.
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All of the Japanese in the military, including the emperor should've committed rutual suicide for surrendering since they found it so dishonorable. such cowards.
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Kenneth
We condemn there German's for their actions during World War 2 but what about the horrors of the Japanese the is never any mention of the QuoteJapanese Crimes
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We condemn there German's for their actions during World War 2 but what about the horrors of the Japanese the is never any mention of the QuoteJapanese Crimes
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Nik
The nuclear bombs dropped by USA were a fair punishment. Also a humane act to save millions of lives which would have perished for this pananoid and sick regime.
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The nuclear bombs dropped by USA were a fair punishment. Also a humane act to save millions of lives which would have perished for this pananoid and sick regime.
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