War Diaries (July 20) (nonfiction)
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George Beck: July 20, 1943
Today’s news "340 tons of bombs have been dropped on Rome" according to the wireless. Germans and Italians have evacuated the town of Agrigento in Sicily so we’re still advancing. I was just thinking what an awful lot of soldiers there is just around here with legs off and arms. All the civilians are longing for peace if only to get decent food.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
Mister Park: July 20, 1943
I have been told that the Kanpachi Club, a comfort station in Arakan, Burma, was the home of Mr. Yamamoto. Ichifujiro, the comfort station run by Mr. Murayama in Insein just outside Rangoon, apparently is Mr. Murayama's home.
—Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
George Beck: July 20, 1944
Met an old friend, Bob Ford. Little did we think that we should still be prisoners after four years, and meet again in Germany.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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