-9-   Monday, January 29, 1945 Attacked by submarine during the night. Escaped damage. Anchored at our destination about dawn. We held a roll call of survivors and found we had 497 our of the original 1626 that had sailed from Manila on Dec. 13, 1944. Two meals and one water issue.  Tuesday, January 30, 1945 Finally issued some clothes on deck during a.m. Disembarked at Mogi, Kyushu and were divided into four groups. Group 1 of 100 men under Lt. Col. O. O. Wilson.  Group 2 under Lt. Col. C.T. Beecher, Marine, consisted of 192 men. Group 3 of 95 under Chaplain Major J.E. Duffy. A hospital group of 110 men under Major A. J. Van Oosten. Group 1 was sent to Fukuoka Camp #3. Group 2 was sent to Fukuoka Camp #1. Group 3 was sent to Fukuoka Camp #17. The hospital group was sent to Mogi Military Hospital. I, being in Group 1, went to Fukuoka Camp #3 just outside of Mogi where we arrived at dusk. We were given hot coffee and cigarettes by the prisoners at Camp #3 and it was the best cup of coffee I ever had in my life. There are about a little over a thousand POW's here, about half American and the remainder British, Dutch and what have you.  Major Bill Davis of the 200th CA (AA) is the senior officer at this camp and I find many men from Cabanatuan. It is evidently filled with the detail that left the Philippines in July of '44. Chaplain Donald is here. Also Captain E. C. Miller, M.C. and lt. Blyth, Lt. Gordon and several others.  Thursday, February 1, 1945 Have the runs. Thank goodness they didn't start on the boat. Very cold here. Meals good but nausea prevents my eating very much. I am under 100 pounds. We are quartered in wooden barracks with inadequate stoves for heating. It is necessary to stay wrapped up all day in blankets to keep from freezing to death. The hospital facilities at this camp are limited hence many who should be in the hospital are still in barracks. The Nip major in charge of this camp seems to be a decent chap for a change. He is helping us in every way he can. Of course the means at his disposal are rather limited but he does seem interested in our welfare. We are treated by our own doctors which are here at the camp.  February 11, 1945 Major Sommerville and myself admitted to hospital. Both so weak we had to be carried over. Sommerville died during the night. I managed to hang on by a thread. I get down a few mouthfulls of rice at each meal despite constant nausea but cannot seem to get the runs stopped. The meals here consist of 3 bowls of thin green soup and 460 grams of steamed rice per day. Every week of 10 days a small piece of fish is added to one of the meals. Most of us have such weak stomachs that we cannot get much of the food down. Deaths continue. Lt. Col's Montgomery and MacDonald, Captain Fred Sherman and Lt. Senior Grade (Navy) Charles F. LeCompte died on the 5th. Lt. Col. Byrd and Captain W. A. Scrivener died on the 7th. 1st Lt. Paul D. George died on the 8th. Captain Augustus J. Cullen died on the 10th.  February 11 - April 11, 1945 Still fighting diarrhea. Air raid alarms are frequent. Planes usually pass on to north.  B-29's show up daily about 10 a.m. apparently doing reconnaissance work. Major S. L. Barbour died Feb 13th and Lt. Burt C. Gay died Feb 16th. Ensign L. H. Strand died Feb 17th.  Captains Harry W. Schenck, Raymond G. Sherman, Major Owen E. Jansen USMC and 1st Lt. Hugh H. Tistadt, USMC, died Feb 21st. 2nd Lt Will S. Gordon died the 23rd, and 1st Lt. William J. Ellis on the 27th of February. Captain Leland W. Cramer died March 2, Captain Clyde E. Ely and Major Francis W. Williams, USMC died March 6th. Major Edmund Stark died March 25.  Lt. Col. Edward C. Mack died April l9.  April 11 - 25, 1945 Back in barracks but still considered a hospital case. Runs slowing down. Weather becoming milder. Rumors of transfer to Korea. Beginning to get my appetite back.  April 25, 1945 We were gotten up early, given 3 meals (cups?) of cooked rice and after a thorough search left Camp #3 at 8:00 a.m. We arrived at Fukuoka Camp #1 the same afternoon after a train trip and march. Saw Capt. Jack Gulick, Abston, Major Frank Kriwanick and many others. Learned that Shiley had died here. We were joined to Lt. Col. C. T. Beecher's Group 2 and hiked to the port of Fukuoka where we boarded ship at dusk. When we left Camp #3 in the morning we left Captains Frederick L. Barry, John M. Fowler, 1st Lt. Russell Hutchinson, and 2nd Lt.'s Sidney L. DeBriere and James D. Kell in the camp hospital. While at Camp #3 of the original 100 that arrived 24 had died and 5 were left there when we departed 71 strong.  About 52 of Lt. Col. Beecher's 192 had died at Camp #1.  Of the 110 men hospital group 76 died in the hospital.  Of the enlisted group about 15 died. The hospital group left 4 in Japan. To the best of my knowledge the enlisted group remained in Japan at Camp #17.  After eating supper aboard ship we were disembarked due to an air raid. We spent a cold and uncomfortable night on the dock and re-embarked the next morning.