Harry's Story

14 May 1945

Still at War

14 May 2025

There seems to have been a series of raids all night long, all the lights were out and heavy crumps could be heard. All Clear went at 5.30 and at 6.15 the alarm sounded again and it sounds as if there's a devil of a lot of planes passing over with a little ack ack gunfire.

This seems to be a continuous 24 hour raid.

Despite three further alarms during the morning we still had to work. There were another three raids with plenty of explosions which lasted pretty well the whole of the afternoon.

22 May 1945

Still raining hard but I guess we'll have to go to work for another wetting through. Had a miserable afternoon carrying heavy loads in the rain. One bright spot however was the heartening news that the Interpreter had given out that owing to our people at home being

21 May 1945

Went out to work on the big farm today, and, although it was pelting with rain we had to work until 11.15 and naturally got wet through. Another story of the Red+ and Interpreter was told on our return from the farm - it appears that one of his

20 May 1945

Have heard that one very big plane visited OSAKA and dropped one very big bomb (1,000 kilos) this was followed by many smaller bombers which dropped incendiaries and that the place suffered heavily by fire etc,. This may be why a small hate has been turned on against the

19 May 1945

Another 200 Red + parcels have been opened and the items for release extracted. About 1 1/2 tons of onions came into Camp so we should be in clover for the next few days provided the Japanese don't take too many of them out of the Camp. The

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