Alma Salm’s first-hand experiences as a prisoner of war during WW2. We’re publishing it here in small segments.
Cabanatuan was the largest POW camp during WW. Malnutrition, disease, and death ran rampant. Here’s a insider’s look at the appalling accommodations that Japan afforded its American guests.
Weeks after the infamous Bataan Death March, Japan forced 1000s of American POWs on a march through The Philippines. Here’s what you should know about it.
The Japanese forced 100s of POWs in to small, airless train cars for an 8-hour trip through the broiling Philippine plains. That was just the beginning.
In early ww2, the Japanese brazenly marched 1000s of American and Filipino POWs through the streets of Manila, Philippines. It was a “parade of humiliation.” Here’s why.
They’d survivied Japanese bombings in Manila, evaded the enemy in the Battle of Bataan, and, at the VERY last moment, escaped the infamous death march.
17 days with no food, water, or shelter was just the beginning of what these 15,000 American and Filipino POWs would endure during WW2.
As the smoke cleared on May 6, 1942, the Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor were no longer free men. Their journey as POWs were just beginning.
It was a bloody holocaust for the short time it lasted. The small wooded slopes were strewn with American and enemy dead, and of those in the agony of dying.
This is my story of the daily life and torment I experienced for 33 months as a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines during WWII.
![A Brutally Honest Look Inside Japan’s Largest WW2-era POW Camp [Memoir #9]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Memoir-9-Cabantuan-intro-367x780.jpg)
![Exposed: A Lesser-Known WW2 “Death March” [Memoir #8]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bataan-Death-March-Memorial-Statue-367x590.jpg)
![Train Ride thru Hell: American POWs Make an Inhumane Situation…Worse [Memoir #7]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Train-ride-thru-hell-featured-image-367x680.jpg)
![8 Horrific Things Japan Did to the Corregidor POWs in Manila [Memoir #6]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/March-thru-Manila-Featured-image-367x658.jpg)
![“Without a future”: Corregidor’s defenders begin life as POWs [Memoir #3]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MalintaNavytunnels1-367x571.jpg)
![“Last Days of Corregidor”: A WW2 island fortress falls to the Japanese [Memoir #2]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/American-Surrender-on-Bataan-367x522.png)
![“This Is My Story”: 33 Months as POW during WW2 [Memoir #1]](https://www.anastasiaharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Salm-Alma-Photograph-2.jpg)