The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival Swedberg Claire E.
The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival Swedberg Claire E. Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. During three and a half years of…
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The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival Swedberg Claire E.
Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. During three and a half years of imprisonment, as a medic he was a unique and unfortunate witness to the horrors and terrors the Japanese inflicted on their prisoners during the Bataan Death March and at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp, where for two years he tended to the sick and wounded, all too often without medicine. Taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942, he remained in Japanese captivity until September 1945.
military forces reached the camp in September 1945, liberating Chamberlain and his fellow soldiers. In October 1944 the Japanese put Chamberlain on a "hell ship" to forced labor in sugar cane fields in Formosa (now Taiwan) and again, in January 1945, to a Mitsubishi lead and zinc mine in Japan. U.S. Chamberlain's is a story of excruciating hardship, abiding