When Help Never Came

About the Book

One man's story about how growing up on the farm prepared him for Battan, Corregido, Cabanatuan, a Hell Ship, the POW camp at Hirohata, Japan, and the life-long effects of being expendable in the eyes of President Roosevelt.

About the Author

Quentin R. Sabotta was born in Trempeleau County, Wisconsin, on January 4, 1920. In 1940 he joined the Army Air Corps when he ran out of money for college tuition and soon found himself in the Philippines. For 3-1/2 years he was a prisoner of the Japanese, both in the Philippines and Japan. After liberation, hospitalization and recovery, and discharge from the Army, he graduated from Winona State College serving as Senior Class President in 1948. He then graduated from the University of Minnesota with a MA degree in Educational Psychology. His professional career included 25 years with the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Community School District and 35 years with Vocational Rehabilitation.