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  • In Japan, captured “B-29ers” were segregated from other POWs, usually in small torture camps run by the kempeitai, the Gestapo-like secret military police.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • He and his wife met me at the airport and we had dinner at the Palace Hotel overlooking the Palace grounds, right near where I was a prisoner of the kempeitai.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • At Camp Omori, Hap Halloran met Air Commander Robert Goldsworthy, who had also been tortured in a kempeitai prison.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • After people finished throwing stones at me, I was blindfolded again and taken to the kempeitai torture prison in downtown Tokyo.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • In Japan, captured “B-29ers” were segregated from other POWs, usually in small torture camps run by the kempeitai, the Gestapo-like secret military police.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • He and his wife met me at the airport and we had dinner at the Palace Hotel overlooking the Palace grounds, right near where I was a prisoner of the kempeitai.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • At Camp Omori, Hap Halloran met Air Commander Robert Goldsworthy, who had also been tortured in a kempeitai prison.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • After people finished throwing stones at me, I was blindfolded again and taken to the kempeitai torture prison in downtown Tokyo.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • Note that, unless I missed it, he was able to make his case without even mentioning Unit 731 or anything else about the kempeitai, either.

    The White Peril 白禍 2009

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