and he was brought into rabaul, and he was interrogated by a japanese-american from hawaii named edward honda. the guy spoke perfect english, knew all the american lingo. >> i didn't realize a man could be hit with a baseball bat so many times, being swung with all a man's might. >> it wasn't honda that did it. eddie honda wanted out of rabaul and pappy and a few other prisoners were going to be his ticket home. >> eddie honda told his superiors, major boyington and some of these guys have very important and valuable military information and they have to be sent to tokyo for further interrogation. had major boyington not gotten out of rabaul, he would have been executed. >> during the trek to tokyo, he was saved again. while being strafed, honda let his captives run for cover. >> he pushed them out as they were being strafed and threw them into a trench. >> boyington managed to make the most of his situation. >> they gave him a job working in the kitchen and he gained weight. i think he's got to be the only allied prisoner to ever gain weight at a camp, because he was able to steal food and s