In this 20 minute video, retired director of the Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese, Roger Mansell, talks about the process of researching the POWs, his work about the POWs of Guam, and the crucial importance of sharing information. He discusses many details about his research in the National Archives, which began before the widespread use of the Internet. This was filmed by John Hicks in Roger Mansell's home in Palo Alto, California, in October 2010.

Roger Mansell had been scheduled to speak as a special guest at the Researching FEPOW History Conference in the U.K. in October 2010, held on October 9 - 10, 2010 in the National Memorial Arboretum (NMA), Alrewas, Staffordshire, but his health was too fragile for him to leave his home in California. This video made in lieu of his speech and it was shown at the conference to sustained applause, as his colleagues reported to him just before his death on October 25.

Roger Mansell had been a featured speaker at the first Researching FEPOW History Conference in 2006. He had hoped to attend the subsequent conferences, but it was soon afterwards that he began the most difficult part of his long battle with cancer.