Traveling to Japan

They decided that we were going to go to Japan or at least they loaded us on boats. There were a lot of guys that should never have gone, I’m sure. Guys that had been badly wounded, guys that had been very sick and the result, of course, when they loaded them into the hold of these damn boats, these sicknesses spread because we were just packed in there like sardines and so when we got to Japan we were right back to square one, right back to... it was sickness and misery. You had to scramble to get to a bathroom if you could make it, and some, of course, didn’t make it. It was a hell of a stench. After a day, first day or so it was really terrible. The food was lowered down in buckets and first come, first serve sort of thing.