"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island
"The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture
"Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity
"The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life
"A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru
"Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land
"The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung
"The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung
"Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid
"I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung
"You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures
"This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp
A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji
"Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan
"The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation
"98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945
"We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.