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Child Prisoners of the Japanese

13/08/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Child Prisoners of the Japanese

The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.

In August 1945 Japan surrendered to the Americans and World War Two finally came to an end.  Within days, prisoners held by the Japanese in China began to be released.  Among them, a young American girl, Mary Previte. She tells her story to Witness.

(Photo: The Japanese delegation arrives on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, to sign the Instrument of Surrender. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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