[What I Was Doing at that Time: 80 Years After the War, 20 Newspaper Project] August 13th: Hidetaka Wada (89), Oita Prefecture, Flees the Korean Peninsula. "the Soviet Union Is Coming," a Mother and Five Children Head South. [Local Newspaper Testimony Rel

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"We have to run." A pregnant mother and her four children rushed to the train station to escape the town where the Soviet army was closing in. Chongjin is a port town in the northernmost part of the Korean Peninsula. On August 13, 1945, Hidetaka Wada (89), of Fujimigaoka, Oita City, who was living in company housing for the Korea Railway where his father worked, jumped out of bed when he heard the news of an emergency call-up.