Reception From the American Brass

We commandeered a train and most of us had learned to speak Japanese. I know I did. I could speak it quite fluently at the time. I can’t no more, I still understand it. We found it to our own benefit to learn the language then we’d know what to do when they told us what to do instead of getting kicked around until we did it. And uh, we commandeered a train and we told them to hold the tracks open. It was electric. All electric trains there then and we high balled her for Tokyo. We were met by the Americans there. They locked all the doors on the train from the outside or they blocked them all and we all had to come out one door and there was a whole line of American generals and they grabbed each one of us and give us a big hug and then they loaded us up and took us to a big warehouse where they fed us. Well they run us through a . . . we took all of our clothes off and we walked through a place and we were showered and insecticide or whatever put on us. We were cleaned up anyway and then in to a big go-down to eat!