The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Crichton. Crichton enlisted in the Army in June 1942 and was assigned to the 31st Infantry Division. In New Guinea, as captain of his unit he took no prisoners when intercepting elite Japanese forces even though the natives brought in prisoners bound in vines. While Crichton was evacuating all women from combat zones, he read in a Japanese diary that Americans planned to annihilate the Japanese, sparing only the most beautiful women to exhibit in a zoo. In the Philippines, Crichton was reassigned to 6th Army Intelligence, screening and forwarding guerilla and coast watcher messages. When he received word that battleships were headed for Surigao Strait, he relayed the information to Halsey. At Lingayen Gulf, a kamikaze struck the destroyer escort beside Crichton’s ship, and a bomb hit where Crichton had slept the night before. He went ashore on D+3. Sleeping in a slit trench with a log rolled of it, he awoke to find a large shell embedded in the log. He went on to serve as aide to General Krueger, who ordered Crichton to shoot and kill him if enemy capture was imminent. After the …