Osaka #8 Naruo Dispatch Camp (Showa Denkyoku)

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Osaka 8-D NARUO (SHOWA DENKYOKU) HYOGO-ken, MUKO-gun, NARUO-mura, UEDA AZA HIGASHIHAMA 1 Satellite Area Map Timeline: 01 Feb 1945: Established as Osaka Dispatch Camp #8 29 May 1945: Camp closed (destroyed by fire, bombed?); POWs transferred to NAGOYA POW camps. Photographs: None located Japanese Staff

Labor: POWs were dispatched for work at Showa Denkyoku (Showa Electrode Company, now SEC Carbon), in a graphite factory. Hellships: Enoshima Maru Rosters: Deceased: Three POWs died at this camp - two Americans Killion and McMillin; one Dutchman, van Doorne. Individuals or affidavits: Story of Dutch Marine Jan van Doorne. Her died in this camp on 7 March 1945. He survived the sinking of at least three ships. John Massimino story