The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII
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The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII
- The diary begins in the spring of 1941 as he prepared for a new assignment in the Philippines. |After Japan attacked the Philippines in early December Hinkle was wounded and taken to a hospital for surgery. |When the Philippines fell in May 1942 he became a prisoner of war at the Davao Penal Colony where his wound refused to heal and his right leg was amputated below the knee. |As a bed-ridden invalid Hinkle wrote about his life as a prisoner of the Japanese. |To prevent the growing diary from being confiscated by camp guards Hinkle concealed it within a false compartment built into his wooden leg. |His 136 000-word diary offers a rare and very personal account of one of the longest periods of Japanese military captivity experienced by any American during the Second World War.
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