I would like to contact Lt. Niles Strew of the 3rd Marines. I collect war letters. My collection includes your father's WWII letters, and his letters from Korea. Lester Strew allegedly was a POW during WWII. But I have no knowledge of where or when. I want to learn more. I want solid details. Which Japanese POW camp? And when? From 42 to 43, Lester was in New Guinea. He manned a radio/weather station. He says he asked for combat and received it. He mentions being in the hospital, allegedly with Malaria. I can only try to speculate that maybe Lester endured a short POW stint on New Guinea, until the Allied forces finally beat the Japanese on New Guinea in mid to late 1944. But maybe they reassigned him in 1944 to a hot area.