Post-WWII - 1945, Pacific War: War Hero: Col. Boyington Tells His Story After Rescue from Japs

Post-WWII - 1945, Pacific War: War Hero: Col. Boyington Tells His Story After Rescue from Japs Intertitle. 08:03:27 Photographer taking pictures as Marine pilot welcomed home from Japanese captivity, carried by group of men. 08:03:35 MCU SOF to camera: “I was shot down between Rabaul & New Ireland over the St. George Channel; I was about 200 feet over the water when my main gas tank blew up in flames in my face & I knew I didn’t have much time to do much of anything. I pulled the cord when I kicked the stick & I felt the tug immediately on my back with the chute opening, and then I hit the water w/ a big bang on my side, it just barely opened. At dusk a submarine surfaced just alongside me; and I thought oh boy, it might be an American sub. then I saw the tarpauline stretched around the conning tower and there on the side was painted a great big meatball! And I said oh, oh Boyington the jigs up! 08:04:26 “After I got to Japan & put in a prison camp there I found out an amazing thing... I didn’t realize a man could be hit w/ a baseball bat so many times...and still not have any bones broken. I think our treatment w/ regard to the Japanese should be very strict. Its the only type treatment they are used to & the only thing they understand. If we fail in this the Japanese will take us for even bigger suckers than they have already. And we can’t let this happen or we’ll have a job to do all over again one of these days.” Prisoner of War Treatment; POWs; Post-WW2 Pacific; Brutality; 1940s;