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Sept. 2, 2015 – “POW’s Suffering Didn’t End When World War II Did” (wunc.org)

  • September 3, 2015
  • Allied POWs

“In 1945 President Harry Truman declared Sept. 2 as Victory Over Japan Day. Japan surrendered aboard the USS Missouri. It was the official end of World War II. But the suffering wasn’t over for Henry Chamberlain, who had been captured on…

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April 6, 2015 – “American prisoners of war in Japan were used for live experiments during World War II” (Business Insider)

  • April 10, 2015
  • Allied POWs

“A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live US prisoners of war by medical personnel towards the end of the Second World War.”

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