Since then, he had suffered through a torturous ten-day journey in the hold of a Japanese prisoner transport ship, interned in a camp in China, and later suffered a harrowing train ride through Manchuria into Korea where he and his fellow prisoners nearly starved to death in cramped box cars. civilian construction contractors, to surrender. He had been a prisoner of the Japanese since 23 December 1941, when Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops captured Wake Island and forced the 1st Marine Defense Battalion, along with detachments from Marine Fighter Squadron 211, the U.S. Kessler began the month of August 1945 at a coal mine near Nisi Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan, focused on acquiring enough food to survive. Such was the case with Marine 1stLt Woodrow M. That was especially true for those held as Japanese prisoners of war, who found themselves elated yet still uncertain of their future. The last weeks of August 1945 were extraordinary for as it seemed WWII was finally coming to an end.
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