Allyson Smith Editor

A Marine on board the USS Houston when it sank in 1942, James Gee survived hard labour in Japanese POW camps for the rest of World War II, then returned to the USA where following treatment, he lived a full life in Dallas, Texas. As a nurse at the end of World War II, Rosalie H. Smith worked with liberated prisoners of war and helped them record their experiences as part of their recovery. She wove together James Gee’s detailed memoirs to tell his entire story. Allyson Smith rediscovered her mother’s account of James Gee’s experiences in World War II after Rosalie’s death. She subsequently researched and edited the manuscript, to bring it to a wider audience.