japanese only to be sent to the most hellish p.o.w. camps in the pacific. he was officially declared dead in california. but he would live through unspeakably savage cruelty at the hands of his japanese captors, and one sadistic commandant in particular. aka, the bird. >> i had nightmares on this bird guy. if i looked away from his eyes, he punched me out for looking away. if he stared at his eyes, he punched me for staring at his eyes. every day he did something to me. he hit me over the head with a two-pound steel buckle. cracked my skull open. i'm down on the ground bleeding. he hands me a piece of toilet paper to wipe the blood. then he said, oh, like i'm sorry. i thought, well, he can't be so bad after all. i wiped the blood off, stood up, and looked at it, and he hit me again. >> with the end of the war,