Medal of Honor for Macassar POW
7th April 1942: Lieutenant Richard Antrim volunteers to take punishment beating in place of another prisoner
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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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