File:Let's Eat POW Diary (6169350570).jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![File:Let's Eat POW Diary (6169350570).jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Let%27s_Eat_POW_Diary_%286169350570%29.jpg/440px-Let%27s_Eat_POW_Diary_%286169350570%29.jpg?20150826225939)
Size of this preview: 440 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 176 × 240 pixels | 352 × 480 pixels | 564 × 768 pixels | 752 × 1,024 pixels | 1,296 × 1,765 pixels.
Original file (1,296 × 1,765 pixels, file size: 255 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]DescriptionLet's Eat POW Diary (6169350570).jpg | Corporal Martin D. Eichman served with the H Company, 2D Battalion, 4th Marines (H/2/4) during the defense of the Philippines and was captured at the fall of Corregidor. Eichman spent the next 40 months as a prisoner of war. Although treatment was harsh at the POW camp, they were afforded the luxury of maintaining a diary. Eichman found interesting use of his diary and recorded the topic of much discussion - food. Entitled "Let's Eat" the food entries where hallucinatory and reflected the food items desired by the POWs. While having starving men record such items may seem like torture, Eichman and his fellow POW's found hope and sanity in the process. The goal of surviving to be reunited with items such as hamburgers and oyster stew provided these Marines with extra motivation. Also, the process of recording cooking instructions ensured that their mental faculties remained sharp. |
Date | |
Source | Let's Eat POW Diary |
Author | USMC Archives from Quantico, USA |
Licensing
[edit]![w:en:Creative Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/CC_some_rights_reserved.svg/90px-CC_some_rights_reserved.svg.png)
![attribution](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Cc-by_new_white.svg/24px-Cc-by_new_white.svg.png)
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
![]() |
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections at https://flickr.com/photos/60868061@N04/6169350570. It was reviewed on 27 August 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
27 August 2015
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 22:59, 26 August 2015 | ![]() | 1,296 × 1,765 (255 KB) | Tm (talk | contribs) | Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.