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Medal of Honor for Macassar POW

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Medal of Honor for Macassar POW

7th April 1942: Lieutenant Richard Antrim volunteers to take punishment beating in place of another prisoner

Apr 7, 2022
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Medal of Honor for Macassar POW

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The USS Pope was sunk in the second Battle of the Java Sea and survivors were taken to Macassar POW camp.

From Hong Kong to Singapore and throughout the Indonesian islands that were now under Japanese control tens of thousands of men were now discovering the grim reality of becoming a prisoner of war of the Japanese. There are very few photographs to ill…

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