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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: May 14, 2014
Caption:
Prisoner of the Japanese | Additional Description:
"I might as well tell you I have been sent with 200 men & 3 other officers to Port Hughes the last outpost of the Philippines - we are all by ourselves between the Philippines & Indo-China and Japan.
Things are getting very serious around here. For the first time, the majority of the officers are expecting hostilities at any hour. Where from or how, I don't know, but we are ready & will be awfully tough lick...Se you in 1943."
Arthur H. Buchman, in a letter to his parents written from a prison ship, November 4, 1942.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM
WN91 WMUC 67 36 GOV=WUX
WASHINGTON DC 23 635P
HARRY H BUCHMAN
3030JENKIN ARCADE PGH+
THE SECRETARY OF WAR DEEPLY REGRETS TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR SON 2/LT BUCHMAN ARTHUR H WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN PACIFIC AREA 15 DECEMBER 44 WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED ABOARD A JAPANESE VESSEL CONFIRMING LETTER FOLLOW=
WITSELL ACTING THE ADJUTANT GENERAL
Submitted: May 14, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p273321
File Size: 1.733 Megabytes
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