Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.)
Title
Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.)
Subject
Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Description
Personal account by an aircraft mechanic of the 91st Bombardment Squadron. He had enlisted in 1940, and was sent to the Philippines , arriving in Fort McKinley just two weeks before the war started. The squadron’s planes never arrived.
He narrates his experiences at the start of the war; in Bataan; going on the Death March, and surviving prison camp (Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan), prison ship to Japan. Moody was chosen to testify in the Tokyo war crimes trials as a representative of those who were tortured by the Death March. Apart from writing about his wartime experiences, he devotes much of his book to the post-war war crimes trials, and the fates of the Japanese.
He narrates his experiences at the start of the war; in Bataan; going on the Death March, and surviving prison camp (Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan), prison ship to Japan. Moody was chosen to testify in the Tokyo war crimes trials as a representative of those who were tortured by the Death March. Apart from writing about his wartime experiences, he devotes much of his book to the post-war war crimes trials, and the fates of the Japanese.
Creator
Moody, Samuel B.
Allen, Maury
Publisher
New York, NY : Pageant Press, c1961
Date
1961
Format
21 x 15 cm.
Type
Hardbound
Call Number
D 804 .J32 M6 1961
Accession Number
13632
Pagination
213 p.
Files
Collection
Citation
Moody, Samuel B. and Allen, Maury, “Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.),” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed December 6, 2025, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/610.