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  • Brooks, Curtis Taken Out of Manila to Leyte

    A few days after being liberated from their internment in Santo Tomas in Manila, Curtis Brooks and his brother were still getting lugaw [Annotator&

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 1

    Brooks was born on 30 October of 1919 in Greeneville, Tennessee. He recalls his childhood during the Great Depression.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 10

    1 morning the prisoners were called out. They were usually called out every morning so the Japanese could do a head count.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 11

    In the hospital they were treated very nice and given so much food that they couldn't eat it all. There was also entertainment every night.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 12

    Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to another world.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 2

    They made several convoy trips to Port Darwin on the northern coast of Australia.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 3

    On the evening of 28 February [Annotator's Note: 28 February 1942] they left the area they had been fighting in and steamed into Batavia.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 4

    Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 5

    The first place Brooks was taken to was a building.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 6

    The Japanese kept the Americans and British in separate groups until they started working on the railroad.The food was the same.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 7

    The men got up before daylight and took their mess kits and lined up for some soup.

  • Brooks, Howard Segment 8

    Brooks never once had any contact with the Red Cross. At 1 point they were each issued 1 item out of a Red Cross parcel.

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