“Is This a Trap?” — Japanese POW Women Froze When U.S. Guards Invited Them Inside a Warm Tent

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They were told Americans were devils who would torture them, assault them, and parade them as trophies of war. But when 23 Japanese women stepped off a transport ship onto Guam in December 1944, shivering in thin cotton uniforms soaked by ocean spray, the enemy broke them not with violence, but with an invitation. A US Marine sergeant pointed to a ... Read More