Dear Yuichi:

I was very impressed by your letter of 1/16 . I appreciated receiving the up-to-date calculations concerning the approximate deposits to the POW accounts and I enjoyed reading about your various assumuptions with which I am in general agreement. Our thinking and the various conclusions that each of us have come to are the same. The "mysteries " that we have about some of the accounts will never be solved because the only persons who can solve them are now dead. Therefore, I believe that it is no longer worth the effort and time in trying to solve them. However, your accounting background and experience may cause you "not to be satisfied" until "the account books are balanced". That is, the "mysteries " or " unanswered questions " that we have about what happened to the monies in the Omori accounts are solved.

I had forgotten about the postal deposit books. However, I do remember very clearly That I knew the exact amount that was owed to me when I left Omori. For several years after the war, I used to joke about the amount of money that the Japanese government still owed me Now, I do not remember the amount. I have no explanation about why we were not given the monies before we left Omori. We can only speculate or make assumptions about this "mystery". I can only say what I have told you in my previous letter; we were more interested in going home than about the monies. which were then of less value, in our accounts.

It was of particular interest to me to learn that you have verified that the POWs in some of the camps did receive the monies which were in their accounts before they left their camps. This helps to explain why Capt. Sedgie Hinson had enough money to buy a camera at a shop in Niigata when they were able after 8/15/45 to leave 15D and go into the town. It also explains why some of POWs had enough moneyto stay with the geisha girls until they were sent by train to Yokohama to be released. (p.231 of my book)

Your comments about Prince Tokugawa and Lt.Morigishi(Muragishi) were interesting. I agree with you about Morigishi(Muragishi)being an indecisive person.

Enclosed is a copy of how I tabulated your information. It still needs a little more work for me to add to it.

My best wishes to you and your family.

Sincerely
Bob
Robert R. Martindale

*表が添付されています

Japanese Officer's Pay Scale

* Approximate figure for ease of calculations.
** Base for POW payments.

P.O.W. Officer's Pay Scale And Approximate Amounts Deposited Into POW Accounts( Omori P.O.W. Camp )

Approximate total monthly Y 2800-3000
bank deposits.

Data supplied by Yuichi Hatto; former Pay/Sgt. at Omori P.O.W.Camp, Japan.)