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Japanese POWs Couldn't Believe Americans Fed Them Rice and Treated Their Wounds

Japanese POWs Couldn't Believe Americans Fed Them Rice and Treated Their Wounds Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, March 27, 1944, fifteen hundred hours, and Lieutenant Yoshio Tanaka stood frozen in the medical tent doorway, watching an American Army doctor carefully unwrap the infected wounds on Private Kenji Yamamoto's legs, wounds that had festered for three days since their capture near Kwajalein, wounds that Tanaka was certain would mean amputation or death, yet here was this enemy physician cleaning them with the same methodical care that Tanaka had seen in Tokyo hospitals before the war, applying fresh white bandages instead of the beating or execution that every Japanese soldier had been taught to expect from the barbaric Americans who supposedly tortured all prisoners. The doctor looked up at Tanaka, gestured for him to sit on the next examination table, and through a Nisei interpreter said words that made no sense in Tanaka's understanding of how enemies treated the defeated, "Let me look at that shrapnel wound in your shoulder, Lieutenant, we need to prevent infection," and Tanaka felt his entire worldview beginning to crack like ice under spring sun.