The three former POWs are among seven invited by a Japanese government friendship program that has brought five groups of World War II prisoner of war survivors, almost all of them in their 90s, to visit the camps where they were held nearly 70 years ago during the war and speak about their experiences. Nichols, left, 93, of Carlsbad, NM., and Jack Schwartz, 99, of Hanford, CA, stand together in front of Heiwajima Kannon by the Heiwajima Motorboat Race stand, the former site of Omori camp, where Sanchez was held before going back to the United States, in Tokyo Thursday, Oct.
veterans, William Sanchez, center, 96, of Monterey Park, CA., Oral C.
