23 Feb 98 10:38, Jim Dawson wrote to Jim Sanders:
 JD> I am usre they didn't feed you POWs any more than they could get by 
ith.
 JD> Their men in US camps were fed to US standards and the Italians made
 JD> sphagetti in those monsterous steam kettles. I cpouldn't believe that 
such
 JD> a limited group could eat so much.
I had a CO who had been a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He once told us 
that, during their imprisonment in Japan, there were some Japanese guards who 
shared their food rations with the POWs, at least to the extent that they 
could.
If you saw the piece done about Lou Zamperini during the Olympics finale, he 
also made the statement that not all of the prison guards were sadistic 
monsters, although some obviously were. If I recall correctly, he also said 
that some of them shared their limited rice rations with the POWs from time 
to time.
Hal
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