Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981 Page: 78
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of the questions they asked you was, "What did you
do before you came in the Navy?" Of course, I told
them that I was a movie projectionist, you know.
The criteria there was that if you were a technician
or worked at a trade before you came in the Navy, you
went to Japan. If you were a student, you went to
Burma, and they'd teach you a trade--how to build
railroads. In that respect, that is why the second
group, as we left Bicycle Camp, was destined for Japan.
So again, continue with the procedure by which you
left Changi.
There again, we were loaded in a truck and taken down
to the docks and loaded aboard ship and started out.
This ship again was quite crowded, and it had a lot of
Dutch, and we had some English and some Australians
and others aboard. The voyage was made in...well, we
made one stop enroute and that was at Taiwan. That
trip took three weeks to get from Singapore to Taiwan.
Meanwhile, during this cruise, why, several of the men
had contracted dysentery, and two or three of them died
before we got there, and there were ten or twelve of
them that were left in Taiwan because they were critically
ill. There was none of our American group in that bunch,
as I recall!
I assume that conditions aboard this ship were just asMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J., 1920-. Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981, book, June 11, 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944633/m1/80/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.