Ten Escape from Tojosecond Half

This second-half recording presents dramatic excerpts from Lieutenant William Kelly's Ten Escape from Tojo centered on Allied prisoners in Japanese camps in the Philippines. Former prisoners describe starvation, disease, executions, the Bataan Death March and the refusal of guards to provide even basic care or burial for the dead, while the narration connects these accounts to the recent rescue of 513 prisoners from Cabanatuan. The program closes by insisting that the testimony be remembered as evidence of how American and Filipino prisoners were treated during the occupation.

This Words at War broadcast aired on February 6, 1945.

NBC wartime anthology dramatizing contemporary books about World War II, produced with Council on Books in Wartime/war-information context.