Fukuoka-22 Honami Tadakuma (Sumitomo)

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Fukuoka 22-B (SUMITOMO KOGYO TADAKUMA TANKO) Location: FUKUOKA-ken, KAHO-gun, HONAMI-mura, TADAKUMA (MAP) Time Line: 15 Jan 1945: Established as Fukuoka 22 22 Feb 1945: first of 34 survivors of Oruoku Maru arrive 25 April 1945: 29 men depart for Mukden; all Americans Sep 1945: Rescue effected Peart Diary: Excellent 62-page narrative of trip from Bilibid on the Oryoku Maru/Brazil Maru to Fuk-22 then transfer to Mukden (click on link in right column) Photograph Links- Images obtained by Wes Injerd- see his camp chart for Fukuoka #22 Go to Fukuoka #22 and click on his pictures

Gibbs Report Detailed summary of camp history and conditions Rosters Australians - source Neil MacNeil; many known to have come from Osaka #5 Dispatch Camp (Kawasaki) in May 1945 after Kawasaki ship yards destroyed. British: (3 only) per Wes Injerd Orme,W.,Sgt.,Staffordshire Saul,C.,Sgt., Whitfield,J.,Pte.,Lancashire Americans: 195 Yanks Dutch: Others- pending Notes: Also known as Honami or Iizusuki: 267 POWs opened 15th January 1945, 114 Australians, 32 USA, 120 British, 1 Dutch another list says 302 Internees. Most of the Americans were sent here from Yodogawa. Known Deaths: Harry Ashford, 2/2nd Pioneers, died 21 Jan1945 W.R. Pople, 2/2nd Pioneers, died 20 May 1945 Allan Ross Lloyd Hawke, HMAS Perth, died 19 Jan 1945 Soey Seng Oen, 6201-D, Dutch, died 1 Sep 45 Link to Death List per Japanese records- prepared by POW Research Network of Japan.