He was beaten and forced into slave labour during his 44 months as a prisoner of war. When he returned home he and his fellow veterans fought for decades for fair compensation for all they had endured
He spoke little of his wartime experiences before publishing his autobiography, One Soldier’s Story, in which he wrote that he was ‘in the last stages of starvation’ when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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