About 500 patients in from Bataan. Plenty of dysentery cases sent over to me. Rice and watery mongo bean soup for patients. Very little soup. Mostly plain polished rice. Not good enough for life. Rotten vegetables (not eatable) arrived today. Had to be thrown away. Market sweepings. Looks as if Japs want us to die of starvation –not suddenly, but little by little. They then work the men until they get so weak disease gets them. Terrible, uncivilized beings.
Herbert C. Brokenshire
July 15, 1896 -- October 24, 1944). Administrator of the Davao Mission Hospital of the Congregational Churches of America from 1926 to 1941. In the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, Reserve, with rank of Lt. Commander, activated, August 1941; held as P.O.W. in Bilibid Prison. Perished on the Arisan Maru on October 24, 1944.
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