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During the final months of the war, the new airfield construction camps at Kachu Mountain and Ubon offer a study in contrasts in the POW entertainers’ ability to summon up their energy and creativity once again to form concert parties in two remote locations.
Publication Date
2014
Recommended Citation
Eldredge, Sears, "Chapter 10. Strike a New Note!”: Kachu Mountain and Ubon" (2014). Book Chapters. 11.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/thdabooks/11
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About the Book
This book tells the story of how music and theatre helped the 61,000 POWs who were sent to these camps survive their ordeal. It is a story that is not well-known to history and it is now being recovered. It is a story about how music and theatre and the other arts are absolutely essential to a society's life.