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Belly of the beast : a POW's inspiring true story of faith, courage, and survival aboard the infamous WWII Japanese hell ship Oryoku Maru / Judith L. Pearson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New American Library, c2001.Description: xiii, 272 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0451204441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780451204448 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • POW's inspiring true story of faith, courage, and survival aboard the infamous WWII Japanese hell ship Oryoku Maru
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 940.5472 P361 Available 33111004310708
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Describes the brutal ordeal of U.S. Naval Corpsman Estel Myers as a POW aboard the infamous Japanese prison ship Oryoku Maru during World War II, detailing the suffocation, malnutrition, torture, disease, and other hardships that claimed the lives of more than three quarters of the prisoners. Origin

Includes index.

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