Japanese POW Thought He Would Be Executed — Instead Americans Saved His Life
Автор: Prison Survivors
Загружено: 2026-01-28
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October 1945, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.
Private Takeshi Yamamoto, a wounded Japanese soldier captured after Okinawa, expected execution, torture, or slow death. His leg was rotting from a grenade wound. Imperial propaganda had taught him that Americans were cruel, immoral, and would never waste medicine on an enemy.
What happened instead shattered everything he believed.
At Camp McCoy, American medics rushed Takeshi to a real hospital, performed surgery, injected penicillin, and saved his leg — and his life. Nurses changed his sheets daily. Doctors treated him as they treated American soldiers. Dentists repaired teeth that would have been pulled in Japan. He received glasses, meals, warm bedding, and even vocational training.
This story is not about mercy alone.
It is about **how systems, values, and abundance quietly defeated propaganda**.
Takeshi returned to a ruined Japan in 1946, carrying a truth he could never say aloud: the enemy he feared treated him with more dignity than his own army ever had.
This is the forgotten side of World War II.
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