During his capture, Hanley awaited trial and certain executionĪnd endured relentless inquisition and beatings for six months before his liberation. Special Prisoners were consideredĮspecially abhorrent by the Japanese for killing innocent women and children during The Japanese labeled Hanley a Special Prisoner because he had served as crewman aboardĪ B-29 Superfortress – a plane used to firebomb Tokyo and other cities. While the real threat of execution overshadowed each passing moment. He became one of a very few who survived on half-rations for regular prisoners Of getting shot down, and then locked up in an overcrowded, lice-ridden 5-by-9-footĭungeon at Kempei Tai headquarters in downtown Tokyo across the moat from the imperial Special Prisoner of the Japanese came alive at nighttime. In his mind, however, the wounds stayed fresh, and horrors borne of his time as a Wounds from anti-aircraft fire that downed his plane over a Japanese rice paddy in
Without treatment, American military doctors worked to repair the 30 to 40 shrapnel Of Fort Worth to do some healing of his own – physically and mentally. While the world began to heal from years of war, Fiske Hanley II returned to his hometown Hanley shared his life story with Texas Tech Today in 2014, and we share it with you Texas Tech University alumnus Fiske Hanley II, class of 1943, died on Sunday (Aug. Hanley survived captivity and torture by the Kempei Tai.
