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Approximate Dates: July 13, 1943 - July 16, 1943

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

This was the island he Louie & Phil washed up on after their journey at sea.

They are treated surprisingly well given the fact that they are on a Japanese island (enemy territory). They're given food, water, and medical care in the infirmary.

Phil even thinks to himself, "They are our friends" (134).

What Phil and Louie don't realize is that they'll be transferred to Kwajalein ("Execution Island') in a few short days.

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Approximate Dates:

july 16th 1943 - august 26th 1943

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

louie lost his will to live

food rations were limited

louie was stabbed with sticks & forced to dance

"the second day began. phil and louie lay in sweating silence, expecting to be dragged out and beheaded."

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Approximate Dates:

early september 1943 - september 30 1944

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

guards are beaten

extremely limited food rations

negative views of captives

bathed in disinfectant

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Approximate Dates:

september 30th 1944 - winter 1945

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

"for weeks, Louie was deaf in one ear. the bird hit him daily"

bird was making Louie go crazy

malnutrition

pow camp & rules of war aren't followed

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Approximate Dates:

winter 1945

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

pow camp

slave labor - transporting coal & salt

bird mentally traumatizes louie

"it was the darkest moment in louie's life. the bird stood over him, triumphant. i am in command, he said. you will obey"

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Approximate Dates:

may 1943

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

was wrecked

harm people were everywhere

everyone was traumatized

" the wounded and dead were everywhere. two mechanics who had been caught in the open were bruised all over "

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Approximate Dates:

1919

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

louie & his family moved here from olean ny

Louie grew up here

louie was a bad kid

"for all her efforts, she could not tame louie. he ran away and wandered for days."