Brutal treatment of US prisoners
21st September 1942: Prisoners of war of the Japanese live in appalling conditions and face torture and death if they attempt to escape
The US troops who had survived the Bataan death march did not fare much better in Cabanatuan prison camp on the Philippines. The whole camp was on a starvation diet and deprived of basic medicine. The death rate was as high as 30 men a day during July 1942 but dropped thereafter ' …
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