WWII revisited

I am currently slogging thru four-hundred pages of non-fiction about an American track star who competed in the Berlin Olympics in 1936 before enlisting in the Army Air Force where he became a bombardier on a B24 Liberator bomber as we entered WWII. His plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean and he and the pilot were adrift on a raft for forty plus days. The currents took them west where they landed on an island under Japanese control where they were imprisoned and mistreated by sadistic guards. Harking back, I recalled the sinking of the USLines freighter SS AMERICAN LEADER by a German raider in 1942. The Germans took the survivors to Singapore where they turned them over to the Japanese. Their captors separated the crew sending the Captain to Manchuria and the Chief Mate to the Sumatra/Java area where they spent the next three years as prisoners of war. I saw them both in Philadelphia post war - circa 1948 -  the Captain appeared somewhat frail by then but the Chief Mate being somewhat younger was the  Master of a USLines vessel in the Far East trade calling at Japanese ports. With those thoughts in mind we read recently in the N.Y. Times of how we interned Japanese-American citizens on the West Coast during the hysteria post Pearl Harbor. While we did not mistreat them we did upend their lives. I couldn't help noticing the contrast and the reality of wartime.
tjs
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