were causing the deaths of more than 50 Americans each day.
 
          We were to see unconscious Americans, exhausted on the
 
march, tossed into shallow graves and buried while still alive.
 
We were to see our fellow American prisoners drop by
 
the score from dysentery and malnutrition, and their bodies litter
 
our prison camps while waiting for the Japanese to get around to
 
giving us permission to bury our dead. More than a thousand had
 
died before the Japanese permitted us to hold religious services
 
over their bodies or to mark their graves.
 
          We were to see Americans tied up and tortured in full
 
view of our prison camp, beaten and battered until they were no
 
 longer recognizable as human, before they were finally removed
 
for execution without trial.
 
          We were to see and experience a daily pattern of existence
 
and treatment which will remain with us as nightmares and revolting 
 
memories for the rest of our lives. Among the ten of us, these nightmares
 
and memories resolve themselves into one simple conviction: Japan as a 
 
military power must be utterly and finally defeated, soon.
 
         Asprofessional military men--one a graduate of Annapolis,
 
the other of West Point--we are fully aware that atrocity stories,
 
as such, can be dangerous in wartime. Yet we feel most emphatically
 
that this story should be told. We feel that all our people should
 
be given a clearer picture of the enemy we face in the Pacific.
 
Most important of all, we feel that the Japanese treatment of
 
American military prisoners, at least in the Philippines, should