A battalion of Engineers furnished a
bulldozer.
The camp buildings were all gone. I figured out where building # 12
had been. We dug for hours and found nothing.
As fate would have it, one year after I returned to Active Duty at
Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C., I located my 110
sketches at the Pentagon. MacArthur's Sixth Army Rangers had retrieved
the buried drawings when they liberated Camp #1 in late January 1945.
All of my sketches had been carefully numbered, and marked on the back
"Unidentified Artist." I had been officially declared an artist.
INTRODUCTION
In Japanese prisoner of war camps, all prisoners were divided into
groups of ten, called "blood brothers."
If anyone of the ten "blood brothers" made any attempt to escape,
the other nine would be punished "Sevelery!"
Typical punishments:
Tie the blood brothers to fence posts and require each passing
Japanese soldier to slap and kick them.
More severe punishment required recruits to use the bound brothers
for bayonet practice.
The most severe punishment required an officer to unsheathe his
samurai sword and behead the "brothers.
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