No place for kindness : the prisoner of war diary of Roy L. Bodine.

No place for kindness : the prisoner of war diary of Roy L. Bodine.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

Dr. Bodine was a major in the US Army Dental Corps who served in Bataan. With the surrender on April 9, 1942, he became a prisoner of war. He kept a detailed diary, which was against Japanese regulations and could have led to his death if found.

This book publishes his diary entries (originally written on school composition notebooks) from October 19, 1944 to February 1945, and then for the end of war, where he was liberated by American troops in Korea. This portion of his diary is important because it details the horrors experienced by Bodine in the hell ship Oryoku Maru, which was bombed, strafed and sunk by American planes in Subic Bay. He managed to survive, but was transferred to another prison ship which was also bombed by American planes. In the end, he wound up in a prison camp in Korea.

Bodine donated the original diaries to the Fort Sam Houston Museum, which also published this book. Bodine died in 2006.

Bodine, Roy L.

[Fort Sam Houston, Tex. : Fort Sam Houston Museum, 1983.]

1983?

28 x 22 cm.

Softbound

D 805 .J3 B635

16262

xv, 87 p.

ill., maps

with Bodine Diary