See CODE LIST
(xls file).
CIV.
INTERNMENT CAMPS - See Wes
Injerd's Civilian
Internment Camps in Japan for chart
(see also Prisons and
Jails
below)
To-101 Kanagawa 1st Cp (Race Course) (Yamakita)
To-102 Bund Hotel Yokohama
To-103 Kanagawa Prefectural Cp
To-104 Sumire (St. Francisco Monastery)
To- xxx Watabe-
Added per O'Guinn- Wake
contractor *
Metropolitan Police Internee Camp
To-105 Izumi Apts (Totsuka)
To-106 Boat
Club (Yokohama) also
known as Yokohama Yacht Club or Yokohama Amateur Rowing Club (Also see Totsuka below) (Japanese
web site)
Se-101 Fukushima
Int. Cp Civilian Camp
Se-102 Miyagi Prefectural Cp
Os-101 Butterfield and Swire Res. #3 (Kobe) [Destroyed
in fire bombing]
Os-102 Canadian Academy (Kobe) [Destroyed
in fire bombing]
Os-103 Detention Prison (Kobe) Ta-Shibana-Cho
Os-104 Futatabi
#4 (Kobe) (Fukiai-Ko Cp)
Os-105 Marks
Residence
(Kobe) [Destroyed in fire
bombing-pictures of house]
Os-106 Seaman's Mission (Kobe) [Destroyed
in fire bombing]
Ho- xxx Shimizu-cho- See
Otaru
Hi-101 Miyoshi Civ Int Cp
xx- xxx Otaru City
- Wakatake Hokkaido [per Jill
Holmgren, Fairbanks, Alaska]
Fu-101 Sawai Tyo Apts (Nagasaki)
To-201 Sekiguchi
- TOKYO-added by the Center for
Research
Na-101 Tempa Ko Civ Int. Cp (Nagoya)
xx-xxx Totsuka [per Jill Holmgren, Fairbanks, Alaska] -Also see Australian Nurses
To-XXX Totsuka-
Rabaul Nurses plus
pictures!
Se-103 Civ Internees at a Catholic church Aanawa
North Honaki
PRISONS AND JAILS
To-151 Kamioka Prison (Gummyoji) Yokohama
To-152 Kempei-Tai Hqs.. (Tokyo)
To-153 Ueno Park Police Station (Tokyo)
To-154 Sugamo Penitentiary (Tokyo)
To-155 3 Cell Jail (Tokyo)
To-156 Kempei-Tai Hqs. (Yokohama)
To-157 Tokyo Military Prison
To-158 Kotobuki Police Station, Yokohama
To-159 Yokohama Central Prison, Yokohama
Os-151 Kikusui Police (Kobe)
Os-152 Osaka Honmachi (Osaka Jail)
Os-153 Kobe Water Police Jail
Os-154 Sakai Penitentiary (Osaka)
Hi-151 Kure Naval Prison (Hiroshima)
Ha-151 M.P. Prison (Sapporo) [same
as North Army Hq]
Ha-152 Sapporo
- aka Northern Army Hqs
Fu-151 Miyazaki Kempei Tai Hqs.
MILITARY HOSPITALS
To-201 Tokyo #1 Miliatary Hospital
To-202 Sagamihara Hosp. (Tokyo)
To-203 Shinagawa Hosp. [Stadium Camp?] see Ford letter
To-204 Yokosuka Naval Hospital
Os-201 Itchioka
(Ichioka) Hospital (Osaka
Stadium)
Os-202 Osaka Military Hospital
Os-203 Kobe Hospital
Os-204 Kobe Military Hospital
Fu-201 Kokura Military Hospital
Fu-202 Moji Military Hospital
Hi-201 Shimonoseki Quarantine Station
Hi-202 Besshi Sumitomo Hosp., Niihama
Asia
Camps
See also ASIA
POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY, and assorted information
here on Southeast
Asia POW camps.
PHILIPPINES
No Philippine camps were listed in submissions by Japanese as the
Philippines had been recaptured by the Allies.
List
of PI Camps from the Recovered POW List
For
history and information on camps, read Cooper Report on
Medical Activities in the Philippines & Japan, Prisoners of War
in the Philippine Islands, and Office of the
Provost Marshal General Report on POWs in the Philippines.
Read also this account of POW camps in the Philippines: Death
Was Part of Our Life, LIFE magazine, Feb. 7, 1944 issue,
and this story of escape from Davao Penal Colony,
Philippines: Ten Escape From Tojo;
related, see also PDF
download of The Dyess Story.
Ghosts of Bataan documentary - Roger Mansell credited in this video
Many links about civilian camps and military prisons: POW/INTERNMENT CAMPS IN ASIA DURING WWII
The following camp list is compiled from submissions by
former POWS:
Bachrach
Garage Detail
Baguio
Bataan
Bilibid-
central POW camp in Manila
Dr Kentner's Journal
[Report on Bilibid- Tagalog for "prison or jail"]
Cabanatuan
#1 Camp Desc & Rescue Roster. Good
camp info here.
Cabantuan #3 [see references in
above report, Cabanatuan Report #1]
Camp
Murphy - Rizal- Departure
Levy to the Noto Maru (150 men)
Capas
Casisang External Link- Narrative
Cebu
Clark Field
Corregidor 92nd Garage
Corregidor
#7 (22 men- 4 survivors- rescued in airborne assault) roster
pending
Corregidor #9- located at old station hospital between "Middleside and
Topside for approximately 10 months" per research of Robert Piland (Col
Wright's diary- has list of 223 military & civilian prisoners,
pg 183-186)
Davao
- Camp #502- Davao Penal Colony
DEPOCOL
Fort Hughes
Las Pinas
Lipa- Batangas [air strip
construction]
Los
Baņos
Manila
Port Detail - Camp #11
Malabalay - interim camp on Mindanao closed Oct 1942 men moved to Davao
Muntinlupa [New Bilibid]
Nichols
Field [Pasay School Camp} Officially
Camp #5 (Gruenzner, 1979)
Nielson Field
O'Donnell
(Provost Marshall Report with footnotes) Officially Camp #4 (Gruenzner, 1979)
Good camp info here.
Palawan (Puerto Princesa) Roster
of massacre victims [EXTERNAL
LINK]. For
more information, see these PDF files: Palawan
Atrocity Summary of August 18, 1945 (including Amb. Joseph
Grew's protest letter of May 19, 1945, to Japanese Govt.), and Massacre
at Palawan, YANK magazine, April 20, 1945 issue.]
San Fernando
Santo Tomas- Extensive EXTERNAL
LINKS
[Link #1] worth visiting [Link
#2] The BEST for individual stories and the complete story
plus a great DVD movie about the camp
Tarlac (Held high ranking officers before shipment to Taiwan/Formosa)
Zamboanga
CHINA - Additonal
camps courtesy of Tony Banham, Wes Injerd and Michael Hurst
Overiew of
China civilian internment camps
The Hong
Kong Defenders - Data base and history- Noted author & historian Tony Banham
Maps,
detail and Photos of
almost all China, Taiwan and Hainan Camps. This is an amazing compilation by noted
researcher Wes Injerd
Overview of the Fall
of Hong Kong [Amazing diary that was written in numerical code]
Mukden - See Manchuria List
below
SPECIAL: See Dr. Greg Leck's
book- The single best book
about the China civilian internees
Photos from Jim Mockford's trip to China: Aviation Martyrs Memorial Park - With Wei Yulong at Aviation Martyrs Memorial in Nanjing - At Iris Chang Statue
Ch-1
Ch-2 Bridge House, Shanghai [External
Link- Doolittle flyers
interned here]
Ch-3 Argyle St. Barracks, Hong Kong [The officers' camp, Used about a
year. Men were sent back to SSP]
Ch-4 Shanghai PW Camp (Conditions)
Ch-5 Kiang
Wan, Shanghai, China
Ch-6 Woosung, China [Woo
Sung]
Hainan Island - Haisho
Ch-7 Hai-Kow,
Hainan Island, China [Hainan Island, Haisho now called Basuo]
Ch-8 Shamshuipo, Hong Kong, China [Main Camp] See Lewis Bush Report
for section on Shamshuipo.
Ch-xx Sun
Wah Hotel [NEW]
Ch-x Mau Tau Chung - [The Indians' camp]
Ch-x Ma Tau-wai - secondary civilian camp (Kowloon side)
Ch-x Rosary
Hill - Comments & History
Ch-9 North
Point Prison Camp, Hong
Kong, China [used for a short time. Mainly Canadian and RN POWs
Ch-10 Peking PW Camp, China
Ch-101 Ash
Camp, Shanghai, China
Ch-102 Chapai, Shanghai, China
Ch-103 Lincoln Avenue Civil Assemble Center, Shanghai
Ch-104 Pootung Internment Camp, Shanghai, China
Ch-105 Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, China
Ch-106 Lunghwa Civ. Assembly Center, Shanghai, China
Ch-107 Canton, China Civil Assembly Center
Ch-108 Weihsien
Civil assembly
Center, Shantung, China External Link (SLOW Loading) plus [Book]
Ch-109 Tsingtao Civilian Internment Camp, China
Ch-151 Ward Road Jail, Shanghai, China
Ch-152 Kempai Jail, Peking, China
Ch-153 MP Jail, Yochow, China
Ch-154 Hankow Jail, Hankow, China
Ch-155 Feng-Tai Prison Camp, Peking, China
Ch-156 Gendarmarie at 67 Jess Field Rd., Shanghai, China
Ch-157 Gendarmarie Hqs., Hong Kong, China
Ch-201 Ward Road Hospital, Shanghai, China
Ch-202 Hankow, Military Hospital, China
[Specific
Criminal Charge Files- China]
Ch-251 Torture & Killing of Doolittle Flyers in Shanghai
Ch-252 Civilians forced to live near military targets to prevent allied
bombings, Hankow
Ch-253 Bayonet drill on live Chinese PWs.
Ch-254 Improper transport of PW within China
Ch-255 Killing of 80 Chinese Men & Women, 29 Nov 37 at
Chang-Chou.
Ch-256 Exposure of PWs to bombing near Kuequang, China 28 Dec 42 (Boat
trip from Hankow to Shanghai)
KOREA [Chosen] TOP
Story
of transfers- Excellent
seminar paper by Frances De Groen: 100 Aussies to Korea- Includes
Roster of Australians! OUTSTANDING Reference
Hung Nam
Jinsen [AKA Inchon POW Camp] Story of Cliff
Morris (British)
eventually sent to Omine- Camp layout map
Keijo
Camp [AKA Seoul POW Camp] [Australian
POW- external link]
Konan PW Cp. (Hamhung near
border with Manchuria) - also called Chosen
Branch #1
Mil. Pol. Hqs.
Ryuzan Pl. Sta.
Seidaimon Prison, Fusan Korea
Youngsan Pol Sta.
Japanese Hqs., Ichang
Fusan Hosp. PW Cp.
Camps
per Dwight Rider research:
Keijo:
Keijo
Keijo Main Camp
Camp “H” Keijo
Keijo # 81
Keijo No. 2
Keijo Branch Camp #1
Keijo Dispatch Camp #1
Keijo City Prison
Keijo Army Hospital, Keijo
Seidaimon Prison, Keijo
Jinsen:
Jinsen New Divisional Camp (Inchon Camp)
Korea P W Internment Camp, 1st Detachment
KOREA Divisional Camp
Keiki Provincial Hospital, Jinsen
Repho
Koshu
Pusan (Fusan)
Pusan Clearing Hospital, Pusan
Konan:
Konan New Divisional Camp
Konan P.O.W. Camp
Konan Dispatch Camp
Konan PW Internment Camp
Hungnam 1st Detachment Camp Medical Office
Civil Hospital Konan
Konan Hospital
Nippon Chisson Hiryo Co, Konan
Seishin, Ranan Division
Civilian Internment, Korea #223
[Specific
Criminal Charge Files- Korea]
Keijo, Beating of Reiner at 1-16-42
Ichang Pol. Sta.
Massacre at Sarabo Isl. (200 Koreans) 16 May 45
Fusai,
Parade of PWs thru Streets of
FORMOSA
POW
Camps in Taiwan (Formosa) - An
OUTSTANDING site (Taiwan
POW Camps Memorial Society) developed
by Michael Hurst (MBE). Photos, rosters,
details. Camp links below will direct to this site.
Roster
of POWS on Taiwan - Almost complete roster of the 4300+ known
to have been there (searchable).
For-01-Kinkaseki
For-02-Taichu
For-03-Heito
For-04-Shirakawa
For-05-Taihoku-Mosak
For-06-Taihoku
Main Camp
For-07-Takao
For-08-Karenko
For-09-Tamazato
For-10-Inrin
For-11-Inrin
Temp.
For-12-Toroku-
see also roster of
294 Americans and description of Hokusen hellship
voyage
For-13-Kukutsu
For-14-Oka
For-15-Taihoku-Churon
For-16-Taihoku-Maruyama Note: The first 14 camps were the "real" POW camps and the last two
were just temporary camps set up to hold the men from Kukutsu and
Shirakawa Camps who had been brought into Taihoku after the Japanese
surrender to await evacuation. The men only occupied these camps for
about 2 weeks before being removed from the island by the US and
British navies. (per Michael Hurst)
[Specific
Criminal Charge Files- Formosa]
Keelung, Formosa (Exposure of PW to Dangers of Bombing in Keelung
Harbor)
Beating & Torture of U.S. Flyers 28 Jan 45 (S. Formosa)
Forcing PWs to Be Indecently Exposed to Public Ridicule at Formosa
Docks Oct 42
B-24 Crash 18 Feb. 45
MacArthur's List (OLD) - contained too little information.
[The list,
supplied by the Japanese to MacArthur's staff, was far from accurate.
One of the very worst camps was Kinkaseki which was not on list
submitted to MacArthur. Original list follows in black - additions by Center made in red]
OLD
LIST FOR MacArthur
Hitu or Hetu - HEITO
#3
(PingTung)-
KARENKO
[Hualien]
Mocksaka; Musak TAIHOKU #5 MOSAK (Taipei)
Shirakawa SHIRAKAWA #4 (Chiayi)
Taihoku or Tyroka Taiwan TAIHOKU
#6 (Taipei) |
Tamazato
TAMAZATO (YuLi)
Taichu
Camp (Incl
Warehouse) TAICHU #2 (Taichung)
Kato Area Military Police
Kato Army Hosp. |
MANCHURIA
Unit 731 - Experiments on POW
[External
Link]
Man-1 Cheng-Chia-Tun
Man-2 Hsian [held the
high rank officers- 100 KM North east of Mukden]
Man-4 Mukden- Mukden [Hoten]
..Hoten Cp annex document
link (PDF file) which contains roster of
British POWS and many
photographs.
Sub-camp: Shenyang
(see Mukden Prisoner
Of War Remembrance Society)
Man-5 Taihoku [location
misidentified- see Formosa]
Man-101 Anshan Civ. Int. Cp.
Man-151 Military Police Prison: Mukden.
Man-152 Hsingkiang Jail
[Specific
Criminal Charge Files- Manchuria]
Man-251 Exposure to Public Ridicule of T/Sgt. O.L. Hermann at
Anshan
DEATH RAILWAY
Death
Railway NEW
The MacPherson Camp Name & Number Convention
POW
Movements- Summary of dates and places
Bur-1 Hintock -Short memoir
and description of camp
New Site- (and
the BEST!) Australian research
British
Site about the Death Railway by the FEPOW- Ron Taylor's new
site with excellent history- rapidly growing!
Book- Trilogy
-Excellent description of slavery on the railway
Dutch
Viewpoint of Death Railway
Special: Info
regarding the Death
Railway Museum with NEW links
Kanchanaburi (Blog)-
interesting overview of local heroes who helped the POWS
Map
of the Railway Camps
NG - NEW GUINEA [Actually part of the NEI]
Rabaul- Excellent overview and story of women POWS [External Link]
NG-1 Rabaul
Internment Cp. (2/22 BTN.
Cp. site) M.B.
NG-2 Haruku Air Field [error-
Is part of NEI-see below]
NG-3 Parom, N.G.
NG-4 Boiken, N.G.
NG-5 Kur?inge, N.G.
NG-6 Wewak, N.G.
NG-7 Kokopo, New Britain (PW Camp) [External Link]
NG-101 Vunapope Civ Internment Camp (Half-caste Boys School)
NG-151 Kempei
Hqs. PW Camp, Rabaul, New
Britain
NG-152 Tunnel
Hill Prison, Rabaul, N.G.
NG-201 Manokwari Hospital, N.G.
NEI - NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES
JAVA
MEMORIAL FUND: Worth
reading and contributing!
A
Child's Story: Excellent
site relating travails of child interned on Java. Excellent pictures
and time line
Special: The sinking of the Vyner
Brooke and the Australian
Nurses who survived [External
Link]
Special: Dutch View of the Burma Death Railway [External Link]
Tjideng
Reunion - Story of South
African volunteers captured with families in Bandoeng
Essay by author regarding the South African
Volunteers
Timor Gunners from the 79th Battery 21 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (roster courtesy of Graham Reader)
Many maps here: East Indies Camp
Archives: Camps in the Dutch East Indies
???- Sumatra - The Sumatra Death Railway "Pakan Baroe"
Often called "The
Forgotten POW Camp
???- Sandakan
(Borneo) - [not on Japanese list- suggested link shown
next]
??? Sandakan Death March Memorial
NEI-1-A Haruku
Air Field Haroekoe Island,
Ambon and Ceram Island
NEI-1 Tan Toie, Ambonia, Ambon
Is. [ * sub-camps listed]
NEI-1 Galala (Ten-Toi) Tan-Toi?
NEI-2 Batavia PW Camp [BOOK REVIEW] - "Trilogy"
gives good description]
NEI-XX Massacre at Balikpapan LINK (History);
List of Dutch
massacred at Balikpapan
NEI-3 Tarakan, Borneo (PW Camp)
NEI-XX Kuching BORNEO
[External
link] Batu Lintang Camp
NEI-XX Ambarara-
civilian camp (story of young girl- J.E.H. Rijkee )
NEI-4 Tandjong Priok PW Camp, Java
NEI-5 Tjimahi PW Camp (9 miles from Soerebaja)
NEI-6 Boliglodek PW Camp (no atrocity)
NEI-7 Tjilitjap, Java
MEI-8 Soerebaja, Neth. E. Indies.
NEI-9 Soerabaja, Neth. E. Indies
Jaarmarkt
& Darmo PW Camps
NEI-10 Bicycle Camp, Batavia, Java
NEI-11 Bandoeng, PW Camp, Java
NEI-12 Soekaboemi PW Camp, Java
NEI-13 Bamboo PW Camp, Makassar, Celebes
NEI-14 [Makassar]
PW Camp, Celebes [Kampong
Makassar]
NEI-15 Bedadari, PW Camp,. Borneo
NEI-??? Muna [Moena], Raha POW Camp *; Special "Dutch"
site with story of
transport to camp
Camp Halmaheira near Samarang [Source-
Internee Peter A. Roed]
Camp Tjamahi near Bandung
[Source- Internee Peter A. Roed]
NEI-101 Muntok, Bangka Is. off E/ Coast of Sumatra
NEI-102 Kuching Civ. Int. Camp, Sarawak. Borneo
NEI-151 Kendari Prison, Celebes, Neth. E. Indies
NEI-152 Heetjans Weg, Bandoeng, West Java
NEI-153 Kempei
Tai-Singkang
SEA - SOUTHEAST ASIA TOP
Changi Museum - not for research but honors the POWS-
worth a visit if in Singapore
Des
Bettany’s POW Artwork of Changi - very interesting sketches
of British POW's life
as a POW
Dutch
View of the Burma Death
Railway
RAAF
in Java [See links on this
page for an excellent and
highly detailed site - worth visiting]
SEA-0 General and Indefinite Information on Southeast Asia Area
(Thailand, India, French Indochina, Malaya States, Burma and Adjacent
Is.)
SEA-1 Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
SEA-2 Saigon PW Camp, French Indo-China
SEA-3 Penang PW Camp, Malaya Peninsula [west coast- could also be the same as the Convent
Light Street School-
survivors of the submarine USS
Grenadier (SS 210) that
was sunk 22 Apr 1943] [External Link]
SEA-XX- Maymyo Civilian Camp
SEA-4 Rangoon
PW Camp, Burma [Rangoon
Jail- closed 29 Apr 1945] [External
Link- go to NEI camps]
SEA-5 Changi PW Camp, Singapore [Research Help file]
SEA-6 Hintoku, Sea-Asia
SEA-7 Tarso, Se-Asia
SEA-8 Singapore, Southeast Asia, Malaya
SEA-9 Burma Camp-108 (Kilo Camps) Southeast Asia Area, Burma
SEA-10 Hanoi, French Indo-China
SEA-11 Tonchin PW Camp, Thailand
SEA-151 Outram Road Prison, Singapore, Malaya
SEA-152 Rangoon City Jail, Burma
SEA-201 80 Kilo Camp, Hospital,
Burma
Miscellaneous Islands- Carolines. Gilberts,
Marianas, Marcus, Marshall, Soloman, Wake & Palau TOP
CA - CAROLINE ISLANDS
CA-x Truk Island
Ca-251 Beating of E.F. Ricketts for consecutive days by Tukhei on Truk
CA-252 Imp Questioning of crew of U.S.S. Sculpin at Truk.
GI - GILBERT ISLANDS
Gi-251 Prisoners killed by bayonets on Tarawa
Hainan - POWs from Ambon
Mar- MARIANA ISLANDS
Mar-1 GUAM PW CAMP
Mar-2
Mar-3 PW Camp at Agaņa, Guam
Mar-251 2 U.S. flyers found burned, one beheaded, on Saipan.
Mar-252 Exposure to danger of gunfire of US PW's at Dunkas Beach,
Agaņa, Guam, 10 Dec 41.
Magia Is. - MAGIA ISLAND DISTRICT
Magia Is.-1 Magia Is. District PW Camp
Marcus - MARCUS ISLAND
Marcus-251 Beating of U.S. Flyers on Marcus Is., 4 Sept 43
Mars - MARSHALL
ISLANDS
Mars-251 Beheading of 5 U.S. fliers & 2 Priests on Mille Atoll
Mars-252 Mistreatment of Zamperini & Phillips at Kwajelein
Mars-253 Beating of Tinker on Jalvit Is.
xx- Jaluit
Atoll Case - PDF file
about execution of 3
captured fliers (Trial of Rear-Admiral Nisuke Masuda et al)
Ry- RYUKYU ISLANDS
Ry-1 Tocuno-Shima (Between Okinawa & Kyushu Is)
Ry-2 Amamia, Shima Ryukyu Islands
Kuriles - KURILES ISLANDS
Kuriles-251 Beating of 3 U.S. P.W.s at Paramoshiri, Kuriles Island, 19
May 45 (See Saporro
POW Camp- Milt Zack's story)
Kuriles-252 Improper marching of PWs on Paramoshiri, Kuriles Island,
May 45
SO - SOLOMON ISLANDS
So-1 Teninbaubau PW Camp, Bougainville
So-X
Ballale Airstrip - 517
Royal Artillery men from Singapore- built airstrip- all died- 436 known
to be massacred on 5 March 1943- external link- well illustrated
Bodies of 24 men never recovered (story of Gunner Alfred W. Burgess)
WA - WAKE ISLAND
Wa-1 Wake
Island- The full story as
told by the USMC Historical Center
Diary
of Wake
civilian POW- Emmett Newell
PA - PALAU ISLAND
Pa-1 Gaspan PW Camp, Babelthuap, Palau
PA-2 Babelthuap PW Camp, Palau
Pa-3 Koror PW Camp, Palau
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