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“A beating every day”: The Story of Léo Pitre
Chapter Ten
From: Bombs and Barbed Wire
$2.10
Chapter Ten focuses on the story of Léo Pitre from Jacquet River, New Brunswick, describing his time in Hong Kong in 1941 with the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, capture and defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the cruelty shown to POWs by the Japanese soldiers, illnesses at camp, lack of food, torturing of prisoners, trying to escape, and his hard road to recovery after the war.