Chapter 29: Two Hundred and Twenty Punches

At the beginning of May, 400 more POWs entered their camp, which meant less food for everyone. By June, Louie's leg felt better, so the Bird sent him back out to shovel coal. Someone had stolen fish from one of the boats. This resulted in a line where anyone involved in the theft would go down a row of all of the POWs at the camp, and get punched by all of them. Each man in the camp ended up being hit in the face 220 times. The Japanese were considering moving all of the POWs to the mountains where they were going to kill them. Louie worried that all of this would happened before they were rescued.