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I was 25 when I went to Burma. I was working in a hospital over there when the Japs overan it. They captured us and then they said we must divide into Australians one side and all others on the other side. With that they asked the Australians to go for a dip in the sea and they shot every one of them. There was one nurse that fell but she didn't die - all the rest fell on top of her and were shot dead. Then they marched us on a gruelling march and the ones that couldn't march they just shot on the way. In the camp there were beatings and terrible things that went on - they beheaded people, they beat them and the soliders were lifted up by their toes and used as bayonet targets. Several women were raped and when they had their babies the Japanese guards ripped them from their stomachs and smashed the babies heads against the walls. Then they got the guard who raped the woman, pulled him out and made him kill himiself in front of the prisoners of war by falling on his sword. I was 18 stone when I went into the army and 4 stone when I came out, reduced through starvation. The americans got us out. When we did come home we were told that we must forget everything but we can't - I still have nightmares and I'm 88 now.

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