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Fukuoka
#2B Known as "Nagasaki" |
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Fukuoka #2-B Nagasaki (Kawanami) Prisoner of War Information Bureau states the camp was on the island of Koyagi Shima, five miles out in Nagasaki Bay [Nagasaki Ken, Nishisonoki Gun, Koyagi Mura]. The results of the atom bomb were clearly visible to all. Location: Fukuoka #2-B Nagasaki (Kawanami) (KAWANAMI ZOSEN) [Mitsubishi Shipyards] NAGASAKI-ken, NISHISONOKI-gun, KOYAGI-mura Relief Map - shows realtive postion to other camps Satellite - Require Google Maps Camp History: Thanks to Wes Injerd 25 Oct 1942: Established as YAHATA Provisional POW CAMP NAGASAKI Branch Camp 1 Jan 1943: Renamed FUKUOKA POW CAMP NAGASAKI Branch Camp 1 Mar 1944: Renamed Fukuoka # 2-B Sep 1945: Rescue effected Camp Layout: Map from Gibbs Report Photographs: Links to Wes Injerds pictures- amazing photos Fukuoka #2 Photograph image from B-29 Link Pictures of Camp ruins ?? Location Map: Map shows Koyagi camp area in the port of Nagasaki. Island has since been connected to mainland with landfill. Former POW Demonstration December 7, 2002  Click
for larger view Note the POWS waving from the beach area |
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A second camp was also originally
called Fukuoka #2 but was later redesignated as Hiroshima #2D
at UBE Primary Labor Use: Slaves for the Kawanami Shipyard [Kawanami Zosen, Seibu-gun, Keiri-fu] Gibbs Report: Fukuoka #2 Map included in Gibbs Report: Map Orders to POWs from the Camp Commandant Article written by John Ford- 4 large images 1 2 3 4- Need volunteer to transcribe- contact us Japanese Camp Staff: As of liberation- See Gibbs Report above Camp Rosters at Liberation: Americans: Bridgman,Harold Leroy,Civ.,CPNAB Wake Farley,John Willis,Capt.,200th Med Flynn,Raymond Joseph,Cpl., King,Fred M.,Civ.,BYD Wake Wuest,Raymond A.,Cpl.,131st FA E Radosevich, Joseph Robert "Joe Shell", 515th, DBattery (May have left before rescue) British - compiled and edited by Wes Injerd Dutch (over 500 names- question: Does this list include other camps?)  Dutch medics, Dr
Huisman and nurses Charles Alexander Denkelaar and Schenkhuizen
were earlier (15 May 1943) transferred to Fukuoka #14. [per grand
daughter of Denkelaar]Other Allies External Link: List of deceased at Fukuoka #2 Special Pages for all Fukuoka Camps - A must see! Interviews & Reports: John Franken- Dutch Prisoner now residing in Canada- excellent "flash" site. Fred Stanley (British) report of conditions- very interesting post Atom bomb descriptions Books Describing Life at Fukuoka #2: "Nippon's Guest: A Sailor POW in Japan" , by Edward John "Ted" Anderson (Author) & Robin W. Rowe (Author); Devonshire House 1995 (England).  Nippon's Guest is based on the hitherto unpublished diaries of Chief Mechanician Ted Anderson, which were written on any scraps of paper he could beg borrow or steal as a prisoner of war in Japanese hands. This is a story of survival; firstly from the sinking of HMS Exeter during the Battle of the Java Sea; then through three and a half years of starvation, disease and ill-treatment as a prisoner; and finally from the dropping of the worlds third atomic bomb at Nagasaki, where he was employed as a road sweeper on that fateful day 9th August 1945. |
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