Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

bob developed a tropical ulcer in his foot, the means by which he cleaned the infection was to stick his handkerchief through the wound and pulling the fabric back and forth. the hole went all the way through his foot. the hole was about the size of a twenty cent coin.

Bob (Robert) was a Japanese POW inside a coal mine near Nagasaki when the "Fat man" bomb was dropped on Nagasaki nearby. everyone had thought that the mine entrance hat taken a direct hit from a smaller bomb, as the power went out. the mine was no more than one meter in hight and the men were 4 kilometres' deep in the tunnel. after hours of gruelling crawling they discovered that it was not a smaller bomb that had hit the mine, but a nuclear bomb that had been dropped nearby on Nagasaki.