I’ve read elsewhere that that was an Australian pilot, but object lesson remains the same.
Yes, thousands of Americans and our allies such as the Australians were put into forced labor camps with the results we all know of.
Anyway, I am tired of articles about how wonderful the Japanese are and how their technology, which we originally gave them is so terrific.
And I am also very tired of the U.S. defending them militarily at our cost in the billions.
Sorry if my post offended some freepers.
Last September I met with Mr. Gustav Potthoff at the Atterbury, Indiana, Bakalar Air Museum and we talked about his capture by the Japanese and imprisonment at a death camp. He gave me one of his drawings of hope.
http://www.atterburybakalarairmuseum.org/lest_we_forget.htm
Gustav Potthoff’s is “the most American of stories,” said Jon Kay, director of Traditional Arts Indiana. Kay will curate “Tell People the Story: The Art of Gustav Potthoff,” an exhibit that is part of the Fall 2011 Themester, “Making War, Making Peace.”
As an immigrant seeking freedom from financial and physical oppression, Potthoff, a World War II veteran, achieved the American dream, Kay said.
https://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83398