Japanese Surrender Woleai Atoll Uss Sloat De 245

Kukelhan, Walter (2020-01-12). Japanese Surrender Woleai Atoll Uss Sloat De 245 (Report).

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Abstract: Cut of from all supplies since April of this year, Woleai's original reported garrison of 6,500 has been thinned down by death to starving 1,650. Driven by constant bombing to live in underground holes, comparatively few Japanese were killed in the actual attacks, but disease has cut down their forces relentlessly. Almost as though in retribution for the mistreated Americans who have died in Japanese prison camps, about 100 Nipponese have died every month, mostly from malnutrition, since diseases started to take their toll. Pale ghosts of men stumbled about the scrubby Atoll, supporting themselves weakly by sticks. In some cases, sticks are of no avail and those who are clinging pathetically to life go wherever they are going by riding piggy-back on the slightly stauncher shoulders of their comrades. Others seem to have lost all interest in movement and lie inertly along the side of the narrow dirt roads...