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1. How many American’s caught were pilots?
   
2. How did the POWS sleep when they were in the camps?
   
3. How many camps were set up in America for our POWS that we caught in WWII at the start of the war?
   
4. What was the most POW we could put in our camps at the beginning of WWII?
   
5. What was the highest number of prisoners that we caught during the war?
   
6. How Americans were POWS? 
   A.130, 000 B. 150,000 C. 200,000 D. 80,000
   
7. How many Korean POW were used in slave labor?
   
8. What years were WWII from? 
   A. 1939-1945 B. 1934-1948 C. 1935-1949
   
9. POWS caught by Japanese had what chance of surviving?
   A. 20% B. 30% C. 40% D. 50%
   
10. How many Americans were caught in Japan during WWII?

Quiz answers

1. 1.  Over seventy American aces of World War Two were captured and spent time as POWs.
2. American POW's were grouped in ten tents, 400 men to a tent. They slept on a thin layer of straw and blankets which were lice infested. There were two spickets to provide fresh water for all the prisoners.
3. 8
4. 22,500
5. 425,806
6. A
7. Approximately 700,000 Koreans
8. A
9. D
10. 27,000