Harry's Story
24 May 1945
Had quite a good day out on the big farm and was greeted with the following fantastic rumour on our return: All PoWs had to be at harbour concentrations by 15 June and that all Red + had to be eaten up by 11 June.
Harry's Story
23 May 1945
Yasume day. It is simply amazing that we never get a clear day of rest. There is room inspection at 9 o/c and inoculation commences at 10 o/c. Roll Call was dispensed with this morning but only when on our way to fall in. No Roll Call tonight
Harry's Story
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
Harry's Story
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
Harry's Story
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
Harry's Story
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
Harry's Story
18 May 1945
There seems to be a bit of a mild hate on against Officers at the moment re: work.
Harry's Story
17 May 1945
According to report 900 planes are supposed to have taken part in the big raids the other day which were mostly directed against aerodromes.
Harry's Story
16 May 1945
The farm party had quite an interesting day. Breakfast and lunch, which they took with them were much bigger than the meals we have been getting as Camp workers. They paraded at 7 o/c, got to their destination by train soon after 8 o/c and hung about for
Harry's Story
15 May 1945
An Alert during the night but the air activity now appears to have come to an end, so whatever the object of these raids was it appears to have been successfully completed. Work on the Big Farm commences tomorrow with 20 Officers going out; they will get the same size
Harry's Story
14 May 1945
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
Harry's Story
13 May 1945
We had to fall in at 1 o/c for a speech by the Commander. He pointed out that in the past we had been working for our health, but that in future we would have to work longer and harder in order to retain our health by working for