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“They wanted to humiliate us”: The Story of Guy Sirois

Chapter Eleven

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Chapter Eleven focuses on the story of Guy Sirois from Saint-Hilaire, New Brunswick, describing his time in the Far East, capture by the Japanese, his captivity, conditioning of the working camps, labour, building the Kai Tak airport, the humiliation of the POWs, hunger in the camps, and his 1,330 days of captivity.

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Ronald Cormier

A resident of Dieppe, New Brunswick, Ronald Cormier is the author of J’ai vécu la guerre (published in English as The Forgotten Soldiers), Entre bombes et barbelés, Les Acadiens et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, and Bombs and Barbed Wire. Cormier worked as a television producer in news and current affairs with Radio-Canada in Moncton before writing and directing four episodes of Turning Points of History for History Television about the Second World War and Korean War.