World War II Photograph

A further indication that not all Japanese fight to the death is this bag of 221 Japanese prisoners of war. Sprawled on the deck of an LCT (landing craft, tank), they are being brought to a Coast Guard-manned troop transport at Guam for transfer to Pearl Harbor. Thirty of the prisoners were taken at Guam, while the balance were captured at Iwo Jima. Some wounded lie on stretchers. For the most part the prisoners were thin, indicating that even their usual diet of rice and dried fish had been severely cut before their capture.