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SLEEP MY SONS is a definitive account of the sinking of the Japanese " hell ship " Arisan Maru. This prison " hell ship " was sunk on October 24, 1944 with 1800 American
P.O.W.s aboard. There were eight survivors.
" It was so crowded in the ship’s hold that you couldn’t sit down. Men died standing up. It was like sixty men in a 8x12 room "
Calvin Graef, Survivor
Its the beginning of World War II in the Philippine Islands and you’re there. With SLEEP MY SONS’ exclusive survivors’ accounts combined with
American and Japanese war footage you’ll see the Japanese attack on the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Battan Death March, the surrender of Corregidor, the horror of the Japanese prison camps, and the sinking if the “hell ship”
Arisan Maru.
“I was in the hold for 14 days and all I had to eat was two balls of rice the size of chicken eggs. That’s all I had, and very little water.”
Tony Cichy, Survivor
In SLEEP MY SONS you will see and hear the stories of those who survived--through their own eyes and in their own words.
“After we were torpedoed, many of the men were too weak or couldn’t swim. They said it wouldn’t do any good to get in the water, and they went down with the ship.”
Don Meyer, Survivor
SLEEP MY SONS is a lasting tribute to the brave American defenders of the Commonwealth of the Philippines; those who defended such places as Battan, Corregidor, Luzon and Visayas; those gallant men who fought
on with no food, no medicine, outdated weapons, and very little ammunition in the “The Alamo of World War II”
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