September 15, 1945

15 _____ Today we got underway at 1030 _ tied up to a deck at 1140 _ we had to wait for a train carrying prisoners _ it got here at 1300 _ we started to take on 604 A_____ prisoners at about 2154 _ finish at 830 tonight.
_____ Prisoners have the hole second deck & part of the third deck _ we will get underway at 600 tomorrow morning.
_____ The troops we took on were almost all taken prisoners at Singapore almost 4 years ago. They all look pretty good but they were really glad to see an American ship again. One guy said _____ Hi Navy, Where the hell have you been for the last four years.
_____ Most of them are Dutch with some English Philippinos & Al
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Singapore, which was British at the time, was captured by Japan in February of 1942. 60,000 prisoners were taken.

"A" and "Al" might stand for "Allied" or "Australian," which some of the prisoners were.

Top photo shows released prisoners leaving train. In the other photo, the prisoners dictate letters home to USS Mobile sailors at typewriters.