News Man Who Lost Feet as PW to Testify News Article

Reports that John B. Powell, a newspaperman stationed in Shanghai during Japanese occupation has returned to Tokyo in order to testify to the conditions he witnessed during his time as a prisoner-of-war at the Bridge-House prison camp. He was ultimately repatriated to the United States in 1942 where he spent the following three years in a hospital as a result of the gangrene he contracted while imprisoned.
Creator
Phelps, Calhoun W. J., 1910-1971
Box Number
2
Folder Number
1
Item Number
149