Kawasaki #1 POW Camp

Tokyo-01B-Kawasaki
Tokyo Area POW Command

Picture from David Wilson web site (see below)
Location Courtesy of Wes Injerd
Kawasaki #1 POW Branch Camp
Location:
Tokyo 1-B
KAWASAKI-shi, OSHIMA-machi
Area Map
Exact location Map
Camp History:
24 Aug 1942: Camp established as KAWASAKI PROVISIONAL POW CAMP (KARI SHUYOSHO) (NIPPON TSUUN)
25 Sep 1942: Renamed TOKYO POW CAMP No. 1-B
Sep 1945: Rescue Effected

Known Information: e-mails from researcher Mark Derby in New Zealand and Chris Best in England.

Web Site- Excellent narrative and camp experience of David Wilson, British sailor on the SS Willesden, sunk by German raider Regensburg. Turned over to Japs at Yokohama on 7 Jul 1942. Interned at the Kawasaki #1 POW Camp. PHOTOS: Includes picture of camp buildings during war and post war aerial from fighter plane.

MacArthur Report: Location- 35.31'N-139.42"E, 21 US out of 400 prisoners. Camp has thiry barracks and is located 2-1/2 miles from Odacho station.RG331

Primary Labor Use: Slave labor in Kawasaki ship yard.

Hell Ships:
Kamakura Maru- unknown number of Australians on board
Roster: Recreated American roster based upon handwritten roster April 1944. No British roster located yet.
Deceased Roster:
Combined death roster of Tokyo #1 and #2 Camps

Recovery Team Report: Report on Kawasaki #1 Camp by 2nd Lt Robert Dolder, leader of Recovery Team #56

Japanese Camp Staff:
A complete list of Japanese staff at date of surrender.

Diary of Dorsey Walker-Guam Navy man- excellent daily log from 1943 to end of war- vivid description of air raids in area.
Memoir from Bob Denmark, a gunner on the SS Kirkpool said 18 naval and five military personnel on board the Kirkpool were taken to Kawasaki #1 in Tokyo. (Civilians mostly sent to Fukushima). Kirkpool and Nankin sunk by German raider Thor.
BOGLE, Robert E., Sub/Lt., R.N.V.R., of the Nankin, was taken to Zentsuji.

Interviews
Books about Kawasaki #1:
Camp Layout