0:00 - Role in Merrill's Marauders / Interrogation of Japanese POWs

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Keywords: cigarette; combat; enemy lines; execution; Geneva Convention; information; interrogation; Japanese soldiers; mail; medical attention; Myitkyina; name; perimeter; POW; prisoner rights; rank; serial number; translation

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2:43 - Attempted escape of Japanese lieutenant and subsequent interrogation

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Keywords: "harakiri"; American soldiers; ammunition; bayonet; enlisted soldiers; escape; execution; Gorkha regiment; Indian soldiers; information; interpreter; interrogation; Japanese officer; Japanese soldiers; lieutenant; medical attention; officer; POW; stockade; suicide; sword; traitor

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6:39 - Conditions of POW stockades

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Keywords: barbed wire; enlisted soldiers; frontline; Japanese soldiers; makeshift; officer; rations; stockade

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7:13 - Education of Japanese military personnel / information from interrogation of Japanese POWs

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Keywords: cigarette; education; enlisted soldiers; feedback; information; interrogation; Japanese officers; Japanese soldiers; Ledo; POW; report

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9:32 - Impressions of Frank Merrill

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Keywords: Colonel Charles Hunter; General Frank Merrill; General Joseph Stilwell,soldier,Burma; training

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10:37 - Interrogation of comfort girls

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Keywords: "mama-san"; 114th regiment; candy; cigarette; civilians; colonel; Colonel Masao Maruyama; comfort girls; earnings; Fall of Myitkyina; food; information; intelligence; interrogation; Japanese Army; Japanese commanders; language barrier; military police; military script; photographs; prostitution; regimental commander; Robert Honda; rupee,"obi"; sexual slavery; souvenir; stockade; trauma; victim

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15:43 - Fate of captured comfort girls / Contact with civilians

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Keywords: aircraft; civilians; combat; comfort girls; fate; India; jeep; safe passage; temporary quarters; transportation

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17:02 - Interaction with comfort girls / Interrogation procedure

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Keywords: "Arirang"; "sing-a-long"; American soldiers; American songs; comfort girls; communication; evacuation; fate; Hawaiian songs; India; interpret; interrogation; Japanese songs; Korean love song; Military Intelligence Service (MIS); music; officer; prisoner; recreation; Robert Honda; stockade

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18:42 - Assignment to the Royal Air Force / Transfer to Kunming, China

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Keywords: "limey"; "R&R"; "shanghaied"; alert; American soldiers; attention; British officer; commander; dissolved unit; general; identification; interrogation; jungle warfare; Kunming, China; Myikyina; officer; orders; Roy Nakata; Royal Airforce (R.A.F.); salute; SEATIC (Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center); sniper; southeast Asia; transfer; translation

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21:56 - Flight into China

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Keywords: "The Hump"; airfield; airplane; ammunition; Christmas Eve; Curtiss C-46 Commando; Himalayan Mountains; Kunming, China; New Delhi

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