[Dixielandjazz] Re: Prisoners of War
JimDBB@aol.com
JimDBB@aol.com
Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:47:55 EDT
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In a message dated 8/21/02 8:29:05 PM Central Daylight Time, JimDBB@aol.com
writes:
> In a message dated 8/21/02 3:22:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
> barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:
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>
> >> Agree with Dixie on "Ghost Soldiers". Hope they make a movie out of it to
>> reach
>> the rest of the people in this great country.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Barbone
>>
>> Ghost Soldiers is a great book. The story of the rescue of American
>> prisoners who were about to be executed by the Japs.
>
>
> Donald Versaw is an avid Traditional jazz fan in So. Cal. Don was with
> the 4th Marines Regimental Band in world War II who, serving as infantry,
> were captured on Corrigedor. He was written a little book on what happened
> to the 50 Bandsmen and Field Musics that were prisoners in Japan and other
> places much of the war. Don has remarked that the taller you were the more
> you got beat up. The Drum Major was the tallest and got dumped on the
> most. Some of them did not survive. One that survived, John Latham,
> stayed in the Corps after the War. He was a fine flutist and I served with
> him in the 3rd. Marine Division Band. We were in Japan in 1954 and our
> Division was split up all over Japan. The Band was with Headquarters and
> in a camp out in the boondocks called Camp Gifu. John Latham had been a
> prisoner in this same damn camp. He was a very senior non-com and I got up
> my nerve one day and asked him how he could stand to be there. He
> certainly could have gotten transferred. He shrugged.
>
> I apologie to the DixieList for this post. It was meant for another List.
> Some people on the Dixie List are also on another LIst and I got the two
> mixed up.
Jim Beebe
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 8/21/02 8:29:05 PM Central Daylight Time, JimDBB@aol.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In a message dated 8/21/02 3:22:07 PM Central Daylight Time, barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Agree with Dixie on "Ghost Soldiers". Hope they make a movie out of it to reach<BR>
the rest of the people in this great country.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Steve Barbone<BR>
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Ghost Soldiers is a great book. The story of the rescue of American prisoners who were about to be executed by the Japs. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Donald Versaw is an avid Traditional jazz fan in So. Cal. Don was with the 4th Marines Regimental Band in world War II who, serving as infantry, were captured on Corrigedor. He was written a little book on what happened to the 50 Bandsmen and Field Musics that were prisoners in Japan and other places much of the war. Don has remarked that the taller you were the more you got beat up. The Drum Major was the tallest and got dumped on the most. Some of them did not survive. One that survived, John Latham, stayed in the Corps after the War. He was a fine flutist and I served with him in the 3rd. Marine Division Band. We were in Japan in 1954 and our Division was split up all over Japan. The Band was with Headquarters and in a camp out in the boondocks called Camp Gifu. John Latham had been a prisoner in this same damn camp. He was a very senior non-com and I got up my nerve one day and asked him how he could stand to be there. He certainly could have gotten transferred. He shrugged.<BR>
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