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Source: NARA RG 389, Box
2123; files: Fukuoka #4, Moji Military Hospital
1st Lt, A. W. Balfanz Jr; O&413561, 24th Pursuit Group 17th
Pursuit Squadron.
NOTE: These
facts do NOT apply to the Kokura Hospital but to the Fuk-04B-Moji
camp at the YMCA
Captured on Bataan; Arrived Moji as a survivor from the Oryoku
Maru- sent to Fuk-22 then to Mukden where he was rescued.
Moji #4 (Fukuoka #4)- extracted information - not transcribed
From: War Crimes Office
JAGO
File No. 33-129
Extract in re Brutalities at Camp #4, Moji, Kyushu, Japan
He arrived with a group of 120 men, Stated ship left with approximately
1600 men and survivors arrived 31 January 1945 with some 600
survivors. (ex Oryoku Maru to Brazil Maru)
His group separated from the rest, first went to Fuk-04B- Moji
then to unnamed camp (Fuk-22) in Fukuoka in March of 1945. 34
were left alive at the time of the move.
He was sent to Mukden around 25 April 1945, arriving 20 May 1945
at Mukden. Freed by Russian troops around 20 August 1945 and
evacuated by air. [not on evacuation train rosters] |