Last days of paradise: summer 1941 -- Japan attacks -- The Japanese invasion -- The Japanese occupy Guam -- Voyage into prison -- Those left behind: the Chamorros and military in hiding -- Zentsuji: the first months -- Civilians in Kobe -- Life in Zentsuji -- Labor at Zentsuji -- Transfer to Osaka -- The Doolittle Raid -- Hirohata #1: home for the eighty eightballs -- The first christmas in Japan -- The men of Bataan and Corregidor arrive -- Hirohata #2: a new camp and POWs from the Philippines -- Tanagawa -- Chikko: the Osaka main camp -- Osaka-Umeda: wartime experiences -- Thirty-seven months in hell -- Rokuroshi -- Pathways to hell -- The end nears -- The end comes -- Operation Ramp: the return of allied military personnel -- Operation magic carpet: home again.