Sunday
Oct162011
In Their Own Words
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 11:07AM P.F.C. Leonard Karasik
U.S. Army
Korea, Koje-do Island Prison Camp
8th Army. 555 M.P., 551 M.P.
The Mystery Remains
Originally assigned to the infantry, Karasik’s orders were changed overnight, and he became a MP when a riot broke out in the Koje-do Island Prison Camp. Over 170,000 POWs were angry, claiming they were being mistreated by guards using German warfare tactics. Tensions rose higher when the POWs captured a Brigadier General, forcing him to sign a document confirming the supposed atrocities.
How the POWs managed to get knives, spears and daggers, was a mystery. . .