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Bataan to Hiroshima -- Ben Steele's Chronicle

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© Ben Steele
Detail -- Water Brigade -- Camp O'Donnell   20 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches 

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Water Brigade -- Camp O'Donnell.  Men carried canteens on poles and hollowed-out bamboo stalks to and from the single water spigot at Camp O'Donnell.  The majority of prisoners were too ill to fight the water line.

Click on the links below to view more images:

||  The Water Line ||  Rules and Regulations  ||
||   Tayabas Trenches  ||
||  His Own  ||   Ready to Move  ||

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