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Baxter 10
rear of each barracks.
PUNISHMENT
On or about January 5, 1944, around 0600 hours, a Canadian P.O.W. was apprehended stealing food and vitamins from Japanese quarters. Lt. Yoshida ordered the punishment to be delayed.
On or about January 7 at approximately 0630 hours, as we were lined up in columns of eight to be marched to the work sites at the Rinko and Marutsu docks, we were ordered to attention.
Lt. Yoshida came out from his quarters, stepped upon the platform, and shouted his orders. The young Canadian P.O.W. was dragged out from the guard house where he had been severely beaten. The Commandant ordered him tied to a post and his clothes stripped from his body. It was freezing cold, and the snow covered the ground. When we returned that night from the work details, the Canadian soldier was still tied to the post, frozen in the agony of death.
As the columns of wretched men marched by, it seemed as if he were standing in review.
WORK
The Camp 5B prisoners who were deemed "healthy" by the Japanese Medical Corpsman Takahasi were engaged in three work projects outside the camp. Reveille was at 0500 hours with roll call (tenko) at 0530 hours. The work parties left the camp sharply at 0600 hours and began the long march home (home??not that you might know!) at 1800 hours.
The Rinko coal yard detail located at the docks on the Sea of Japan, two miles from the prison camp, was reputed to be the toughest assignment. I was assigned there. Coal was shipped to Japan from mines in occupied Manchuria and North Korea, and the prisoners unloaded it into rail cars, each holding