[ErnBatavia]

Years ago, when I worked the office of a warehouse, there was an oldtimer who kept busy driving a bobtail for a local company. He was probably 75 - he'd been a civilian who was captured on Wake Island and spent the war as a POW...and he totally despised Japanese and anything to do with them.

There were, coincidentally, several local Japanese seafood companies, so their drivers would also show up...and old Joe would walk up to them and fearlessly curse them up and down.

[colorado tanker]

The Japanese treated their prisoners brutally.

Angelina Jolie is doing a movie about Louis Zamperini based on the book Unbroken. He was an Olympic class athlete before the war who was a POW for most of the war. Even he almost didn't make it.

It will be interesting to see how honestly the movie treats the brutal treatment.