The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with T. G. Crews. Crews was born on 26 February 1917 in Erath County, Texas and enlisted in the Marine Corps in July 1937 after graduating from high school. He was sent to China in 1938 as a member of the North China Marines tasked with guarding the American Embassy in Peking and railroads. He was in China on 8 December 1941 when the Japanese took 204 Marines prisoner. Crews was among the Peking Marines taken prisoner. In March 1942 the prisoners were loaded into boxcars and taken to an internment camp north of Shanghai. Approximately 1100 Marines and civilians previously captured at Wake Island were already there. He soon came down with malaria and dysentery. He spent three years as a POW around Shanghai. On 9 May 1945 approximately 1,000 POWs were taken by rail to Fengtai, China a district near Peking. The conditions there were the worst he had experienced as the POWs lived in large warehouses on dirt or brick floors without bedding. The latrines were open and the water was bad. Crews’ weight fell to less than 100 pounds. On 19 June 1945 the prisoners …