Prisoner of the Japanese

29th November 1944: An Irish doctor describes his routine ill-treatment as a consequence of being the most senior officer in the Nagasaki POW camp

The Nagasaki POW camp in Japan, in an image taken by the USAAF after the Japanese surrender but before Allied troops reached it.

Aidan McCarthy¹, a Medical Officer with the RAF, had survived a series of hazardous episodes during the war, including the evacuation from Dunkirk and the rescue of men from a burning aircraft that had crashed on a bomb dump - f…