Escape From the Deep (18 page)

OPPOSITE:

Omori, built on a man-made island, in Tokyo Bay.

(
Courtesy Da Silva family
)

Emaciated
POWs in Omori,
1945. (
Courtesy
DaSilva family
)

RIGHT:

POW camp as it
looked to American
pilots dropping
supplies, August
1945. (
Courtesy
Da Silva family
)

Japanese guards bowing to liberated POWs in Ofuna, the “Torture Farm.” (
National Archives
)

Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington
shaking hands with a liberator.
(
Courtesy DaSilva family
)

Freedom. Clay Decker, third on left from man holding Stars and Stripes, and fellow prisoners celebrate liberation on August 29,1945. (
U.S. Navy
)

Men in Omori rejoice upon liberation. Note Jesse DaSilva at
bottom right and Floyd Caverly in center. (
Courtesy DaSilva family
)

The Japanese formal surrender in Tokyo Bay. (
National Archives
)

Newspaper photograph of
Grace Leibold, seconds after
being told by a reporter that
her husband was alive.
(
Courtesy Leibold family
)

Newspaper photograph of Floyd
Caverly and his wife, Leone, and
daughter Mary Anne enjoying their first
Christmas together, December 1945.
(
Courtesy Caverly family
)

Pete Narowanski and his daughter Jackie
after the war. (
Courtesy Narowanski family
)

Three of the nine. Newspaper
photograph of Bill Leibold, Floyd
Caverly, and Richard O’Kane at a
press conference in San Francisco
in 1947. (
San Francisco Examiner
)