‘The Bataan Death March people got twice as much food to eat as we did’ With National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Friday, Texas Tech Alumnus Shares Amazing Story of Survival in New Book

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Texas Tech University alumnus and Fort Worth resident Fiske Hanley is one of few survivors of the dreaded Japanese Kempei Tai secret military police in World War II. The now 94-year-old veteran recounts his horrifying experiences as a special prisoner of war in his book “Accused American War Criminal,” published by Texas Tech University Press.

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Jada Rankin, Texas Tech University Press, Texas Tech University, (806) 834-2106 or [email protected].

Quotes• “The Bataan Death March people got twice as much food to eat as we did. Anybody badly wounded died. We were not prisoners not of the regular Japanese Army, but of the Kempei Tai, the Japanese equivalent of Hitler’s Gestapo.”• “Only one out of 29 B-29 crewmen shot down over Japan came back. So I survived. The Good Lord. Only reason. I don’t know why I survived.” • “After I retired in 1989, I got around to writing the book. I just felt the world needed to know about this. Readers will find out that war is not good. You fight a war, you fight to win. That’s what (Gen. Curtis) LeMay did. We sure killed a lot of Japanese people.”

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