Chapter 28: Enslaved

For the next two months, Louie was in the worst camp in all of Japan. The prisoners had very little food. Everyday, the POWs were put on ships to shovel coal into the engines of the boats. They breathed in a lot of coal dust. There were no showers, only baths in which the Japanese reused the same water used the day before. Towards the end of a torturous two months, Louie collapsed and felt a stinging sensation in his foot and knee. He was moved to work at the pigsty because he could not work very well.