We Volunteered.

We Volunteered. is the story of Carl Robert Ruse suvivor of the Bataan Death March and a prisoner of the Japanese Imperial Army through the end of World War II. As a POW he endured horrific conditions at prison camps such as Camp O'Donnell Cabanatuan and Davao Penal Colony. He also survived two months of time in the hold of a crowded Japanese Hell Ship for a two-month voyage to Japan where he was forced to work in the Japanese industrial city of Yokkaichi until the end of the war. At the time of his liberation he weighed eighty pounds.