Oral History Interview with Bryghte Godbold Page: 8

                                
just get blown away at any moment, and apparently, some
officer came around and talked to the guy with the
machinegun and then after that, everything was okay, but he
said he was fully expecting to get shot. That would have
been a deterrent to most of the men wanting to surrender,
it seems to me. I mean, if they thought they were going to
get killed anyway, they probably might have been more prone
to want to go out fighting than be gunned down by their
captors. He said that they got the idea from what the
Japanese had done like in Manchuria, with some of the
Chinese over there, but I think there was just a lot of
hostility between the Japanese and the Chinese that maybe
didn't exist between the --
BG: Yeah, and they treated the Chinese as an inferior race of
people, and vice versa.
Ml: Right, yeah, yeah. Did you know Cunningham at all?
BG: No, I didn't know Cunningham. I'd met him. He and I came
to Wake, as I recall, on the same ship which arrived there
only a week before the war started, and of course,

traveling out on the ship, I visited with him. And I don't
believe I ever saw him, if so, only in passing, in the week
that I was on Wake before the war started, and I didn't see
him at all during the fighting. So I had general
impressions about him gained mostly from casual

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