Foo : A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun : The Secret Prison Diary of Frank 'Foo' Fujita (War and the Southwest Series, No 1)

So we'll written by an authentic primary source. I couldn't put it down until the wee hours for 3 days until I finished it.

This is a good book. I've read other books about prisoners of war during WW II, and I've personally known and talked to men who were POWs of the Japanese. I was a child during WW II when almost every man I knew was or had been in the military and I don't like to harbor animosity toward anyone over things that happened so long ago. But it is good in this day, when so many take America for granted, to read about men like Sargent Fujita who loved their country and stood loyal when the going got rough. Only 300 of the roughly 500 men of Sargent Fujita's battalion survived Japanese captivity.

Very accurate facts! Missed some dates by a day or two, but considering his situation and the difficulty of recording events in a timely manner, he was basically spot on. I knew of him since 1985 when one of his friends, Mickey Parkyns, the father of a friend of mine came to visit for a few days. During that visit, he told me that he had just came from a visit with Foo in Texas, where Foo entrusted him with a box of photographic slides which contained he and I took to a photo finishing store and had copies made for Parkyns to take with back to his home in Australia to be displayed in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. I viewed those slides and some of the same pictures were in the book.

Great book about the Lost Battalion.

Appreciate the book. There are some notes in it but the seller made it very clear they would be there so I'm very happy with the product.

Frank Fujita came to the Dutch East Indies as a U.S. Army volunteer and was very quickly caught up in the earliest stage of World War II. Captured by the Japanese, them somehow failing to recognize he was ethnically half Japanese himself, he eventually was shipped back to Japan to a POW camp in which he carefully recorded in pictures and prose his terrible experiences. This record became this book.

Forgotten history, my uncle was with foo!

Excellent book! And a true story.