868 The Sharecropper’s Son

In the new biography, 868, author, Tina Farrell, Ed.D., put pen to paper to detail her father’s heroic life from his birth on a farmhouse table, through the Great Depression, to his service beginning in the Civilian Conservation Corps to the Army Air Corps in the Philippine Islands and Japan, culminating with the final chapter with his humble words of wisdom to today's readers. Details of the emotions, fear, and faith are graphically described as he is captured and enslaved as an American Prisoner of War of the Japanese during WWII. Covered in his mother's prayers and his sharecropper father's country smarts; he survives 40 months of brutality, captivity, and eight days on a sea voyage in the belly of a Japanese "Hell Ship". Details and descriptions of each of the nine locations where he was interred are sharply described. Chronicled are his twenty-five miraculous events, including surviving a large shrapnel blow to the head, spinal meningitis, malaria, multiple beatings, and brutal torture. 868 is a book about faith and courage and is a must-read for anyone wanting a witness to the covering of God's mighty hand. Anyone interested in WWII history will appreciate the details, conversations, and descriptions of the personal accounting of the POW experience and WWII in the Pacific Theater.