- 18 Jan 2011: Otten
testimony added (Nagoya #10 Yank roster)
08 Feb 2011: Links for
Japan and Asia POW Camp Group Chart & Strengths added above
-
17 Feb 2011: Chick
statement re POW camps in Fukuoka
-
21 Mar 2011: Info
on Michael Menzies updated
-
24 Mar 2011: Probable
first & final POWs captured by Japanese during WWII; Info
on Robert
Marshall, Rabaul POW
-
12 Apr 2011: Cooper
Report on
Medical Activities in the Philippines & Japan; Prisoners
of War in the Philippine Islands
-
16 May 2011: Ten
Escape From Tojo
(story of escape from Davao Penal Colony, Philippines); Nagoya
#5 camp layout and relief supply info
-
1/28/2013:
Added data on Baumeister
-
1/31/13: Sendai
#2 camp photos; Omori
camp photos; Instone diary here
and here
-
2/1/13: Quartermaster
Corps photo at Rokuroshi; more photos added to
Sendai #2 and Omori pages
-
2/2/13: Omine
camp addition from Smyth
-
2/18/13: Hosokura
rescue video posted (MP4)
-
3/5/13: Huston
collection PDF's, Futatabi
-
3/6/13: USNHS
Rescue
page
-
4/2/13: Fukuoka
#3 Yahata/Kokura affidavits, testimonies and statements
-
5/7/13: Transfer roster to Naoetsu added to
Osaka #13 Tsumori
-
5/15/13: Photo PDF's and video links for Kanose
and Mitsushima
camps
-
5/24/13: Russell
Ormseth page; photos
of Kamiiso camp; Zentsuji
camp regulations and layout; Innoshima
photos; 1942
radio broadcast excerpt tribute to USMC
-
6/7/13: Added more categories for public view to the Pacific POW
Roster page
-
6/12/13: Fukuoka
#3 affidavits and testimonies added
-
6/14/13: Added to Fukuoka
#9 Miyata page - affidavits for Nieuweboer, de Vente
and Wijnants (Dutch)
-
6/20/13: Added group
photo on Nagoya #1 Kamioka page; Farr
deposition (Sendai #3 Hosokura); Podlesny
article and photo (Osaka #9 Notogawa)
-
7/3/13: John
"Jack" Rix page (Osaka Chikko); obit news on Suddaby (above)
-
7/12/13: Leonard
Rogers' drawings, Hiroshima #6 Omine; Nagoya
#4 Iruka memorial
-
7/19/13: George
Thornton interview (Fukuoka #7 Futase)
-
7/22/13: Holmes Record
of Work booklet and group photos at Hakodate
Main Camp (Bibai)
-
7/23/13: Paul
Verdi documents (Arisan Maru)
-
7/25/13: Photo
of memorial at Yokohama Cemetery, urn of ashes of 335 Allied
POWs
-
7/29/13: Fukuoka
#3 - Medical logs, all nationality rosters, British roster;
Fukuoka #4 - Gale, Horton affidavits
-
8/2/13: Liberation
of POW photos
-
8/19/13: Recovery
Team #56 documents; Carston
report on HMS Mata Hari
and POW camps
-
8/21/13: Winnipeg Grenadiers bios of MacPherson
and Rix (with chart of C Force movements); Royal Rifleman Wilbur;
Tsuneyoshi
and Mori trial reviews
-
8/24/13: George
Lord "short snorter" 10-yen bill; unknown
ship photo; ID
of unknowns at Cabanatuan and Gapan
-
8/26/13: Affidavits,
etc.
- Chapman, Cole, Converse, Crumpacker, Ernst, Higashi (Fukuoka #4
Moji); Abe,
Hata/Asano/Kita/Nakamura, Kawasaki, Mineno, Nagakura (Fukuoka #3 Kokura)
-
9/4/13: Research papers by Edward Jackfert (see left column above)
-
9/6/13: Kanehiro
statement re Katayama at Ambon
-
9/25/13: American
National Red Cross POW Bulletins webpage, including Japanese
Protocol re treatment of POWs after Bataan
-
9/27/13: Affidavits
- Berkeley, Braye, Burns, Bush (Fukuoka #4 Moji); Moji
aerial, map and camp layout images added; info corrected re
the three hospitals in the area
-
10/23/13: The File
Bin
-
11/15/13: Grave site photo and related contributions on McNab (Fukuoka
#24 Emukae)
-
12/2/13: Group photo, Hiroshima
#6 Motoyama
-
12/3/13: Affidavits
page additions - Bailey, Baba, Nakamura, Ikeda/Takano/Yagi (Fukuoka #4
Moji)
-
12/19/13: James
Clough collection - Sendai #8 Kosaka
-
1/6/2014: Affidavits
page additions - Inoue, Saito, Sakaguchi (Fukuoka #4
Moji)
-
1/21/14: Photos added to Hiroshima
#9 Ohama page
-
1/29/14: Tsetusuo
Wakabayashi Revealed PDF added to Recommended Books
-
2/15/14: Affidavits
page additions - Casteel, Saito/Sakaguchi/Inouye (Fukuoka #4
Moji); Van Allen (Fukuoka
#5 Omine)
-
3/8/14: Hellship
diagrams (Oryoku Maru, Enoura Maru, Brazil Maru) from Japanese
blueprints
-
3/17/14: Photos of individual grave markers of British POW's who died
at Omi
POW Camp
-
3/18/14: Group photo, Hakodate
#1 Muroran/Ashibetsu
-
3/26/14: Original rosters for Fukuoka camps - 2, 6,
9,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27
-
3/31/14: Wes Injerd's website "Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan"
migrated to Mansell.com
-
4/3/14: MAJOR UPLOADING BEGINS - Archival docs added to Fukuoka #1,
#2,
#3
-
4/11/14~: Images and archival docs added to Fukuoka #4,
#5,
#6,
#7,
#8,
#9,
#17,
#18,
#21,
#22,
#23,
#24,
#25,
#26,
#27
-
5/21/14: Cecil Wood collection (Nagoya
#7)
-
5/22/14: Mansell
Database link
-
5/29/14: Cohorn info, Tokyo #9
-
6/11/14: British POW photos, Fukuoka
#6D, including info re memorial to be built there
-
6/20/14~: Images and archival docs added to Hiroshima #1
(Zentsuji), #2,
#3,
#4,
#5,
#6,
#7,
#8,
#9
-
9/30/14~: Images and archival docs added to Nagoya #1,
#2,
#3,
#4,
#5,
#6,
#7,
#8,
#9,
#10,
#11
-
11/26/14: Finding
Our POWs -- The Recovery and Evacuation of POWs from Japan, 1945
-
12/1/14: MAP
GIVING NUMBERS OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PRISONERS IN SOUTHERN ASIA,
TABLE
OF
INTERNEES IN PRISONER OF WAR INTERNMENT CAMPS
-
12/5/14: Hiroshima
#8 (Motoyama) photos
-
12/23/14: Special files on Louis Zamperini in File Bin
-
12/31/14: Liberation
and evacuation of POWs in Formosa (Taiwan)
-
1/27/2015: George Otter
photos, Sendai
#9 Sakata
-
3/19/15: Photo
of Charles Mackenzie (Sarawak, Borneo); group photo at HIR-09
Ohama
-
3/24/15: List of civilian internees at Kiyomizu,
Saga; Parsons and McCoy reports PDFs
-
3/27/15: Atrocities
Against Allied POWs
-
3/30/15: Photo of Omi
Memorial, DOCX file
-
4/3/15: Otero photo collection, Fukuoka
#17 Omuta; Barrett story and photos, Zentsuji
-
4/6/15: Evacuee roster, history and war diary PDFs, USNHS
Rescue; Marrison diary, photos, Fukuoka
#8 Inatsuki
-
5/13/15: B-29 crash sites confirmed for Fukuoka
#2 and Sendai
#1
-
5/29/15: Photo and text contributions for TOK-13
Omi and HAK-Main
(Bibai)
-
6/1/15: Photo and text contributions for TOK-15
Niigata, including roster PDF
-
6/2/15: Szczepanski files, Fukuoka
#17 Omuta
-
6/30/15: Rabaul
executions re Arthur C. King; Grant Ogden King, Tokyo
#5-D
-
7/1/15: Assorted images for camps, large Bataan map, Philippines
Camps
-
7/6/15: Newly found data on camp strengths for Japan
and Asian
camps
-
7/11/15: Many original documents added to Finding Our POWs
-
7/31/15: Many images compiled into PDF's for Osaka Camps and placed on Osaka Main
Camp webpage
-
8/4/15~: Images and archival docs added to Osaka #1,
Ichioka
Hospital, #2, #3, #3-D,
#4, #5,
-
10/2/15: Dutch memoir by van Goor, Fukuoka
#2
-
10/5/15: Google Earth Placemark links updated on Camp
Group Chart
-
10/30/15: Wes Injerd's website on the evacuation and relocation of
Japanese Americans migrated to Mansell.com
-
11/2/15: Dwight Rider's book Hog Wild
(PDF) added to File Bin
-
11/4/15: Archival documents and photos added to Fukuoka
#18 (Sasebo)
-
11/7/15: Newly-found rosters for all Fukuoka camps
-
11/10/15: More
statistics from US and Japan Archives
-
3/17/2016: Special
page on Sasebo history
-
3/25/16: POW
Camp Conditions on the Asiatic Mainland
-
4/19/16: Kengun
Airfield clarified (first location of Fukuoka #1)
-
5/14/16: Asst. files added for Tokyo
#1-D
-
5/19/16: Paper Lanterns
Project link
-
5/24/16: Tokyo
#9 Ashio updated
-
7/5/16: Photos and text added for Negishi
racetrack camp
-
7/26/16: Tokyo
Camps, original rosters, all nationalities
-
1/2/2017: PDF's added to Taiwan
documents page
-
1/9/17: Sasebo
occupation info, PDF
-
2/6/17: Moved ZZZ files to special_files
folder
- 3/2/17: POW rosters and asst files from NARA
- 3/8/17: Memorial plaque at Fukuoka #24
- 3/16/17~:
Archival docs for Sasebo, Chichijima, Saigon, Santo Tomas, Kiangwan,
Chapei, Zentsuji, Tan Toey Ambon, Makassar, Thailand, Osaka, Tokyo, Philippines
- 3/23/17: Netherland East Indies
- 3/30/17: Thai-Burma Death Railway
- 4/10/17: Drolette collection, Zentsuji; Omori complete rosters
- 4/21/17: 131st FA; Houston, Humphrey, Hovey, Sawolka survivors; Java Parties
- 4/24/14: Investigation of Emperor Hirohito
- 5/2/17: Original rosters for all Sendai camps
- Interim rosters for PI civilian camps; China, Indochina, Korea camp reports
- 8/25/17: All rosters for Changi
- 10/30/17: Rosters for Fukuoka, Nagoya, Tokyo
- 12/18/17: British POWs taken in Sumatra
- 12/30/17: Hellships PDF
- 1/17/2018: PDFs for Fukuoka, Kamioka, Shinagawa, Niigata #5, hellships
- 1/23/18: Death records for Borneo, Philippine, Hong Kong and Shanghai
- 1/29/18: Death rosters and certificates for Nagoya, Fukuoka and Osaka camps
- 2/5/18: All U.S. POW roster; rosters for Chosen Korea and Taiwan camps; Bilibid death reports
- 2/12/18: Many rosters and maps for Thailand and Burma
- 2/21/18: Original liberation rosters for all Osaka camps
|
|
- May 14, 2001 -- Posted main pages INDEX HERE
- May 15 -- Roland
book now available! / New links added
- May 16 -- More Additional Documents
added / Saunders'
Report on POW Camps (of special note is Point #7)
- May 17 -- Letters
& Comments section added / Parrott letters put into
TXT file / New info in POW
Statistics section / About Holmes
book
- May 18 -- Retitled section Memorials and added
new photo of Sasebo memorial / Photo of beheading and excerpt
from Craig book
- May 19 -- Excerpt
from Holmes book, and other info / Kyushu Univ. campus photo / Australian POW statistics
/ On being captured
/ Article on war-files
law / Photo of POWs at Changi
Camp
- May 22 -- Article on plight
of POWs
- May 23 -- Langa List
link added
- May 26 -- FASCINATING Diary of Lt. Col. Shreve
and related info on Invasion of Kyushu / Facts
about transport ships by Daws / Strategic
Bombing Survey link added
- May 29 -- Graphic account
by Lt. Col. Schwartz incl. his sketch of Camp #1 / Lester Tenney on
ABC-NEWS
- June 2 -- Hansen
death certificate and record card / Roland article on
vivisections / Dutch Medical
Officer J. F. de Wijn affidavit
- June 5 -- Quotes re invasion of Japan
/ Australian affidavits
/ Novel and possible movie
- June 11 -- Article on former Commandant Shirabe
/ POW lawsuit links
/ Assorted POW statistics
/ Article on Mizumaki
- June 16 -- Photo of Fukuoka
devastation after the Air Raid of June 19th / Affidavits by
U.S. civilian Burns
and British Capt. Wallace
/ Webpages split into total of 9 pages / Quote
by Pres. Bush
- June 19
(Incendiary Bombing of Fukuoka) -- List of Japanese firms named in
slave labor cases / Excerpts from article on June
20 incident / Excerpts from article on bombing of Omuta
and B-29 crash of July 27th
- July 2 -- Affidavit by British
Bombardier Lee describing Kumamoto, Kashii and Mushiroda
locations (note reference to the rainy season) / More excerpts added: August 10 & 15
incidents
- July 11 -- Recent
review of this website in Netsurfer Digest / Article mentioning
Cecil Parrott / New books on Bataan
Death March and Japanese
internment / Excellent
article from Parade Magazine re POW lawsuit and bill
- From CFIR News: "The History
Channel and A & E are doing some important programs. Be sure to
watch these: Sworn to Secrecy - Hirohito, the War Criminal,
(will be released in July or August), and Chemical &
Biological Weapons (aired in May)."
- July 23 -- British
Bombardier Eastham's description of Kumamoto, Kashii and
Mushiroda camps / Book by
Ted Spaulding with excerpt describing his life at Camp #1 / Lawsuit updates
including comment on San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951
- August 2 -- A very moving article from The Denver
Post on Jesse Miller / Location
of Mushiroda camp pinpointed / Lengthy but
fascinating Review of the
Staff Judge Advocate on the Trial of Masato Hada /
Article by POW who says
A-bomb saved his life
- August 16 -- Australian affidavits, Dilger and French / List of POW and Japanese affidavits
- August 28 -- Australian affidavit, Underwood / Very good
description of Hakozaki camp by Army
Air Force Capt. Goodpasture
- September
15th is National POW/MIA Recognition Day
- September 10 -- Lengthy article from Japanese
newspaper on POW lawsuits,
including related articles on recent apology from Japan
Foreign Minister Tanaka
- October 2 -- A tribute
to all ex-POWs from The Quan: "Your story
must be told!"
- October 9 -- Article
on Dolf Winkler and the story behind the establishing of the
Mizumaki Cross Memorial site: "How one small town in Kyushu is going
out of its way to promote reconciliation between former enemies" /
Company names added to POW
Camps in Kyushu list
- October 21 -- Short section on Aug. 15 beheading
added / Photo of Brazil-maru;
text file on Oryoku-maru story
- November 11 -- Veterans
Day Special: Amazing
story of Rodney Kephart (civilian ex-POW who was awarded the
Purple Heart medal) and his part in making the Victory Flag that flew
over Camp #6, just northeast of Fukuoka.
- November 17 -- Categories added to Memorials section,
including the tragic story of the crew aboard a B-29 that crashed in
central Kyushu as it was on a relief supply mission to a POW camp near
Fukuoka / More info added to B-29
Crashes section / POW
Camps in Kyushu list updated
- November 18 -- B-29 crash memorial sites in other
areas of Japan added to Memorials
section
- November 26 -- Book by Rodney Kephart / Article by Kudo on B-29 crash in
Takachiho / Large
addition of American affidavits: A thru C
- December 3 -- Dec.
7 is Pearl Harbor Day -- From article by Hampton Sides
on the Bataan Death March survivors' memories and psychological scars /
Article on Cecil
Parrott / Lawsuit update
/ New book review:
Death on the Hellships / Calendar
of Upcoming Events
- December 14 -- Excerpt
from Sides on annihilation of POWs / Editorial on
lawsuits / More American
affidavits: D thru H
- December 23 -- Another day to remember: Dec. 23,
1945 - Defenders of Wake Island captured,
resulting in the longest captivity for Allied POWs of the Pacific War
/ Comment by Matthew Poole
on treatment of captives / Report
on Omuta Camp #17 / Note on Americans killing
Americans aboard hellships / The
POWs of the "Doolittle Raiders" article with
inspirational Testimony by DeShazer
- December 25 -- A
MUST-READ! Excellent
account of life at Camp #1 by Dutch POW Gerry
Nolthenius, with his straight-forward views on British and
American POWs, the "fate" of interpreter Katsura, and life after
liberation. Read also a section
from his book's Introduction.
- January 2, 2002
-- Images
from a war-time magazine for Japanese children: "Shoot down the B-29!"
/ More assorted
images for children including interesting trivia on former Emperor
Hirohito / More info on Naoetsu
Peace Memorial Park, and related books /
Comprehensive Charts on Fukuoka
Area POW Camps
- January 13 -- Link for amazing photos of Oryoku-maru under attack
/ Photos of Kyushu University
Medical Dept. (where vivisections took place) and Western Army HQ
- January 23 -- More
American affidavits: J thru P / Fukuoka
Fever, Benjo Boogie, Hirohito's Curse: Medical Officer Hewlett's description
of the diseases which afflicted POWs at Omuta Camp #17 / POW Camp Districts:
Number of Sub-Camps, Internees and Deaths / More added to Letters & Comments
- February 5 -- Correspondence from Australian ex-POW Neil MacPherson who
slave-labored on the Burma "Death Railway" / Lawsuit update from The
Quan / Statistics
on the Oryoku-maru, Brazil-maru and Enoura-maru
-
EXCERPT
FROM GISHIWAJINDEN -- Himiko,
Queen of Wa: an unedited excerpt from my ongoing research on one of the
earliest Chinese chronicles dealing with the early Japanese, the Wajin
-
- February 13 -- Article
from People magazine on Lester Tenney /
New book on the Japanese
hell ship Oryoku-maru
- February 19 -- More links on Jacob DeShazer of the
Doolittle Raiders and his remarkable story / Last of American affidavits: R thru W
- February 26 -- TIF files on the Oryoku-maru story have
been typed up / Visit Mark Kelso's excellent site on the
Oryoku-maru story, dedicated to his grandfather who died in
Kokura Hospital shortly after arriving in Moji
- March 13 -- Japanese
personnel rosters (Fukuoka HQ and Camp #1) typed up and
placed in table / Photo
of Gerry and Hennie Nolthenius, and Gerry's sketch of Camp
#1, Hakozaki / Leaflet explaining contents
of relief supplies / Trial records added to Additional Documents
- April 15 -- Nolthenius letter and article / Fepow Community Top Site Award!
/ Official dates added to Locations
of Camp #1
- April 27 -- Blurb about movie on POWs due
out this fall / MacPherson
and Heron trip to former POW camp in Emukae / In
Memory of Ted Spaulding /
Comments by Utsumi on
treatment of POWs / Image of POW camps in Japan / Article on Parrott and
lawsuits / Info re Main Camp added to Fukuoka Area POW
Camps chart
- May 1
- May 13
- June 11
- November 6 -- After a long break and a move back to
the US.....
Nov.
11 - Veterans Day - A Time to Remember
All EX-POWs have one common goal to
pass along to future generations, REMEMBER THEM. Remember the men who
died in battle, remember the men who marched days upon days with no
food or water, remember the men who were beaten when they worked and
killed when they did not. Remember the men who had to wait to die in
the Zero Ward, remember the men who lost their lives at sea after their
hellship was sunk, and remember the men who survived their 3½-year
ordeal.
All prisoners of the Japanese will tell
you, We can forgive, but we can't forget.
Source: http://www.chinamarines.com/docs/lib.htm
Read this moving article in entirety at the above
source. Entitled Liberation, this article will help
give you a better idea, indeed, a better feeling of what it was like to
be a POW who has suffered, endured, survived, and had his first taste
of freedom after years of internment. Certainly we have not even begun
to appreciate the sacrifices these veterans, veterans of a different
kind of war, had to make.
They fought, not on the front lines, but behind enemy
lines... not with weapons, but with a strong will to survive... not
against an enemy at a distance, but with one face to face, daily under
attack... without any way of defending themselves... without any option
of retreat... without proper food, rest or medication.
And they are still fighting today, against both
physical and mental scars, the haunting memories that will never go
away until death takes it from them.
We owe a lot to these veterans of a different kind of
war who gave a lot for their country, for their families, for us. Let
us then, who enjoy the benefits of their sacrifices, do our best to
honor all veterans and do what we can to show our appreciation for what
they have done.
Let us make this Veterans Day 2002
a day of special remembrance and appreciation.
- November 7
- November 30
- December 2
- December 11
- February 1, 2003
- February 3
- February 12
- Japanese-POW
Web Site has been updated
- For a great source of news on upcoming events,
new books, lawsuit updates, etc., see the Center for Internee Rights
newsletter at http://expows.com/news1225.pdf
(PDF file -- Acrobat Reader necessary in order to read this file)
- Book
by Meg Parkes about a POW who spent time at Miyata POW Camp
#9 near Fukuoka
- FINALLY
COMPLETED! --> All-Japan
POW Camp Group History chart -- Excellent resource
for finding which POW camp was where and when in Japan, including the
names of Japanese companies which utilized POW labor
- June 23
- July 8
- July 14
- July 21
- Donald
Hanes profile - POW who died at Camp #1 (this link has many
photos and stories on Bataan and POWs)
- Master Roster updated
- July 28
- July 31
- Links to To
End All Wars movie
- Master Roster updated -- all American rosters
have been added
- August 9
- August 12
- October 3
- October 6
- October 22
- November 5
- November 11
- November 21
- November 27
- December 2
- Visit Michael
Palmer's website on his grandfather, George Palmer,
who served with the Royal Rifles of Canada and was a POW at
Kawasaki/Soeda #5, one of the many coal mining camps in north central
Kyushu. Of special note is the amazingly detailed diary
of Lance Ross and his time
at Camp #5.
- December 9
- December 25
- January 5, 2004
- February 11
- March 10
- March 16
- April 1
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 12, 2004
National Former Prisoner of War
Recognition Day, 2004
By the President of the
United States of America
A Proclamation
Americans look to our veterans as examples of honor and
patriotism. These loyal citizens have risked capture, imprisonment, and
their lives to protect our homeland and advance freedom abroad. As we
observe National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor brave
Americans who have demonstrated extraordinary courage in the face of
hardship and terror.
Today, nine out of ten former prisoners of war are
veterans of World War II. These Americans helped to liberate millions
and defeat tyranny around the world, and survived unspeakable horrors
for the cause of freedom. From enduring hard labor in German and
Japanese POW camps to the torturous Bataan Death March, these proud
patriots showed strength of character and incredible resolve in
captivity. Their devotion to duty and love of country stand as a
measure of service few others will attain.
America will never forget these quiet heroes and all of
our former prisoners of war who suffered adversity in Korea, Vietnam,
the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq, and other conflicts. Our
Nation is grateful to our former prisoners of war for their sacrifice
to help protect the democratic ideals that make our country strong.
Because of the dedication of these men and women in uniform, people in
our own country and in lands far away can live in freedom. These
citizens inspire us, and we will always remember their service for
liberty's blessings.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by
the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim
April 9, 2004, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. I
call upon all Americans to join me in remembering all former American
prisoners of war who suffered the hardships of enemy captivity. I also
call upon Federal, State, and local government officials and private
organizations to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and
activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-eighth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
- April
15, 2004: Cecil
Parrott, Death March survivor, dies --
Another hero and good friend passes on.
- May 11
- POW Research
Network Japan -- Excellent research group in Japan
working on compiling complete rosters of all POW deaths in Japan. Rosters
are mostly completed for the 1,853 Commonwealth servicemen (United
Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and Pakistan)
buried at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Yokohama. A list of American
and Dutch POWs who died at POW camps throughout
Japan will soon be posted. See related article "Japanese
researchers on POWs hope to heal war wounds."
- Japan
Times article on recent visit of Australian POWs (Neil
MacPherson, Jack Boon, Jack Simmonds) to Kyushu camp sites at
Saganoseki, Emukae and Omuta. See also related news blurb "Australian
ex-POW revisits WWII detention site in Oita."
- More on the movie, To
End All Wars, "a cross between Mel
Gibson's The Passion and Band of Brothers"
- May 26 -- Memorial Day Special
- Honor Roll
of former POWs who attended the recent ADBC Convention. A
great honor indeed it was to be with these amazing men and listen to
their stories -- the horrendous as well as the humorous -- stories that
deserve to be included in our school's history textbooks, that the
youth of this nation may learn about these heroes of WWII. We all have
so much to learn from these men who endured, who survived, and who
deserve never to be forgotten.
- Song
of Survival -- a remarkable and very moving documentary of
the Australian, Dutch and British women who formed a choir to "sustain
a spirit that refused to accept defeat."
- Commentaries
by Lester Tenney in the Japan Today news
- June 12
-- Flag Day Special
- June 26
- July 8
- More links
on B-29 missions
- New
book out on beheadings and vivisections in Fukuoka -- The
Fallen: A True Story of American POWs and Japanese Wartime Atrocities
by Marc Landas
- July 17
- Pacific
Roster -- Over 18,500 American POWs
listed in camps throughout Asia (large CSV file, 900K)
- August 5
- September 18
- November 28
- New bilingual website -- US-Japan
Dialogue on POWs -- featuring short stories from
POWs and their children, including video interviews and a slideshow on
the POW experience
- December 31
- January 15, 2005
- March 5
- April 25
- POW
Supply Missions to Japan -- 20th Air
Force report on relief supply missions to POW camps at the end of WWII.
Many photos with descriptions of actual camp sites. (NOTE:
These are large pages due to images.)
- April 30
- Prisoner
of War Encampments -- Excerpts from a CINCPAC
report showing maps and reconnaissance photographs taken prior to the
end of World War II in an effort to identify possible sites of POW
camps in the Far East
- May 13
- New account made (home.comcast.net/~japanpow)
- Recovery
and Rescue of POWs in Japan -- An amazing
assortment of photographs taken at various POW camps by the U.S.
Recovery Team in September 1945. (These pages are VERY large
due to images.)
- May 14
-- 4th Anniversary of this website
- World
War II 60th Anniversary Committee -- UPCOMING EVENTS
- May 21
- May 30,
Memorial Day
- June 4
- July 13
- August 7
- October 1
- January 7, 2006
- February 15
- July 18
- Allen
Godfrey Jones webpage -- "A prisoner of war at
Changi, Great World Camp, River Valley Road Camp, Fukuoka #1 and #17"
- September 9
- October 5
- Camp Group Chart satellite updates, including
GoogleEarth placemark sets for Hokkaido
and Fukuoka camp
groups
- October 23
- November 6
- A
MUST-READ! Very well-written document on POW
camps, including information on every camp in Japan: POW
Camps in Japan Proper (link at top of page)
- February
19, 2007
- Launch of EO9066 website, The
Preservation of a People, dealing with the
evacuation and relocation of people of Japanese ancestry during WWII
- May 26
- September 10
- September 25
- January 24, 2008
- April 15
- Complete CINCPAC - CINCPOA document, Prisoner of War
Encampments (June 15, 1945). These are VERY large
pages containing many images, broadband connection recommended.
- February 17, 2009
- March 11
- April 29
- May 5
- November 30
- Camp PDF profiles in Japanese added to Camp
Group Chart
- December 15
- December 19
- April 10, 2010
- April 20
- May 10
- May 27
- June 4
- February 8, 2011
- February 12
- February 15
- April 29
- July 4,
2012 - Case Files for vivisection
and Aburayama
atrocities
- August 9 - Updated B-29 crashes list for Kyushu
- October 20 - Added new geo-locations to Fukuoka Main Camp for
the Western Imperial Army HQ underground evacuation sites at Hirao Caves and Yamae Caves
- November 29 - Added PDF link for Tactical Mission Report on POW
Supply missions
- January
3, 2013 - PDF scan
of an archival document of March 5, 1946
which shows captured airmen listed as being killed by the A-bomb
in Hiroshima, a ploy used by the Japanese military to cover up the
vivisection atrocities
- March 31, 2014 - Website moved to Mansell.com
|
|
- February
19, 2007 -- EO9066 website posted; 65th
Anniversary of the Proclamation of Executive Order 9066
- Feb.
20 -- TIME Magazine article
links on MAGIC showing how soon after the war we knew about
these
code-breaking activities
- Feb. 21 -- Selective
Service Questionnaire
- Feb. 22 -- Links
for relocation
center newspaper
collections
- Feb. 24 -- Excerpts
from an Oral
History Interview with Karl R. Bendetsen,
Assistant Chief
of Staff,
in charge of the evacuation and relocation, on reasons for EO9066
- Feb. 26 -- FBI
report on a
Nisei involved in espionage in Hawaii (September 1942)
- Mar. 1 -- Authority
of the President to detain citizen Japanese
without further action by Congress (Opinion No. 3 of Memoranda on
the
Constitutional Power of the WRA to Detain Evacuees,
containing
"factual background against which the action was taken.")
- Mar.
17 -- Excerpts from 1964 US Army Handbook, chapters on Continental Defense Commands After
Pearl Harbor and Japanese
Evacuation from
the West Coast
- Apr. 3 --
Recommendations of Commission on
Wartime Internment
and Relocation of Civilians Hearings (1984), Testimony
of
Frederick Wiener,
including a statement
by
Shonin Yamashita, letter
from
John McCloy to
Senator Charles Grassley, and excerpts
from Acheson v. Murakami on the
atmosphere of pressures,
compulsions, influences, and coercions on Nisei at Tule Lake Center to
renounce their citizenship
- Apr. 4 -- Presidential
Proclamation 2525 re Japanese as "liable to be apprehended,
restrained,
secured,
and removed as alien enemies"
- Apr. 11 -- Link for
additional pre-war messages and
background information added
to page on MAGIC
- Apr. 24 -- Recommendations of CWIRC Hearings
(1984), Testimony of Lillian
Baker (2
pages)
- Apr. 26 -- CWRIC Hearings (1981), August
5, 1981 - Statement by Karl R. Bendetsen,
former Assistant
Chief of
Staff of the Fourth Army and
Western Defense Command
- Apr. 27 -- CWRIC Hearings
(1981), Statement
by Catherine Treadgold who helped interview and register the
Japanese living near Sacramento
- May 2 -- CWRIC
Hearings (1981), Testimony
of Rachel Kawasaki, former evacuee who spent
four months at
Santa Anita Assembly Center and one year at Amache Relocation Center
- May 3 -- Photo
of
Manzanar
Center,
showing tower locations and also type of perimeter fencing. Photo of Tule Lake Center,
showing type
of
fence construction
- May 4 -- Japanese-American and
Aleutian Wartime Relocation Hearings (1984), Testimony
of Karl
Bendetsen
- May 27
-- Good article for comparative studies on how
American civilians were treated in true concentration camps by the
Imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines: Woman
recounts years as POW
- May 29
-- Japanese-American
and
Aleutian Wartime Relocation Hearings
(1984), Testimony of John
J. McCloy
- June 18 --
Japanese-American
and
Aleutian Wartime Relocation Hearings (1984), Testimony
of David
Lowman - A
must-read! An
excellent background on intelligence known to our leaders during WWII
which prompted many of their decisions regarding the Nikkei. This
testimony answers well those who accuse the US Government of injustice
in its dealings with the Nikkei.
- June 19 -- CWRIC
Hearings (1981), Testimony
of Boris T. Pash - This document gives the reader a good
example of
the environment at the Hearings, the caliber of the commissioners and
their predispositions, denying and even mocking anything counter to
their conclusions; Japan
Times
article by Kiyoaki Murata
(1981)
- June 27 -- Time
Magazine
article (1948) on Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese American
sentenced to
death as a traitor
- June 28 -- Japanese American
Evacuation Redress Hearing
(1983), Testimony of Dr. Ken
Masugi
- July 5 -- "We
didn't lose
everything" -- The Other Side of the Japanese American Story
- A
collection of evacuation and resettlement
stories about prosperous
Japanese American businesses on the West Coast.
- July
11 -- Article by Timothy Maga, Ronald
Reagan and Redress for
Japanese-American Internment, 1983-88 - Very
enlightening
explanation behind the reason Reagan signed into law H.R. 442, which
called for an apology and $20,000 compensation to both US-citizen and
alien Japanese who were in relocation centers during WWII
- July
14 -- Added short entry on J.
Toguri Mercantile Co., started by
father of "Tokyo Rose"
- July 26 -- Japanese
American Evacuation Redress Hearing
(1983), Testimony of Senator S.
I. Hayakawa
- July 29 -- Assorted photos
added: Photo of
high-security fence at Tule Lake
Segregation Camp; fence
at Topaz
Center; photo and
comments by
Hitoshi Fukui about evacuees at centers.
- August
6 -- Recommendations of CWIRC Hearings (1984), Testimony of Rachel Kawasaki
- August 8 -- Recommendations of CWIRC Hearings (1984),
Testimony of Samuel I.
Hayakawa
- August 13 -- Recommendations of CWIRC Hearings
(1984), Testimony of Catherine
Treadgold
- August 16 -- Japanese-American
and
Aleutian Wartime Relocation Hearings (1984), Testimony
of Ken Masugi
- August 20 --
Japanese-American
and
Aleutian Wartime Relocation Hearings (1984), Testimony
of David Lowman, with an enlightening rebuttal of Herzig's
testimony in Lowman's Supplementary Statement
- August
29 -- FBI File
Memos and Reports on Round-up of Enemy Aliens - Large
collection of
December 1941 files regarding apprehension of Japanese, German and
Italian enemy aliens
- September 1 -- John
McCloy letter of July 20, 1983 to Senator Grassley re CWRIC
Hearings; Entries for February 16, 1941,
December 22, 1941, and October 24, 1942 added to page
on assorted intelligence
- September 8 --
December 11, 12, 14, 29, 1941 additions made
to FBI File Memos
document, IA015
- September 10 -- Fact
Finding Committee on
Un-American Activities, March 24, 1942, Testimony
of
Fred Tayama, one of the chairmen of the Japanese American
Citizens
League
- September 14 -- FBI
Case
Report on Compulsory Military
Service Association, January 1942
- September
27 -- The War
Relocation Work Corps: A Circular
of Information for Enlistees and Their Families, March 1942
- October 1 --FBI
Case File
on Juichi Hazama, January 23, 1942; Memo
re Japanese
internee complaints at Ellis Island,
February 10, 1942
- October 24 -- INS
on
treatment of alien enemy detainees, April 28, 1942
- October 29 -- News
Clippings
from
the Past, Part 1 - A collection of news clippings
from West
Coast
newspapers during 1942
- November 15 -- FBI
memo on establishment of WRA, December 12, 1942
- November
24 -- Excerpt from E.O. 9066 added above; first
two points re exclusion areas and orders added under Talking Points
- December 12 -- FBI
Report
on Police and Internal Security Problems in War Relocation Camps,
December 12, 1942
- December 14 -- This blurb added
to Comments page: "For
an excellent comparison of civilians in
internment under the Imperial Japanese, see Lou Gopal's website, Victims
of
Circumstance - Santo Tomas Internment Camp. The
DVD is a must-view."
- January 4, 2008
-- News Clippings
from
the Past, Part 2
- February 2 -- FBI
Memo on
Summary of War Relocation Authority, December 15, 1942
- February 11 -- News
Clippings
from
the Past, Part 3
- Februrary 14 -- Dealing
With Japanese
Americans, October 1942
- April 18 -- Background
for the
Relocation Program - Good intro to WRA, including reasons for
evacuation
- May 20 -- G-2
Memo re
Enemy Agents in Pacific Northwest, April 1942
- February
11, 2009 -- G-2
Report of Interrogation of an
American-born Japanese POW, April 1945. A very enlightening
report
on a Nisei who became a POW of the US military after his capture on
Saipan in July 1944.
- May 5 -- Civilian
Internment Camps in Japan added to POW website (for
a comparative study of civilian internment)
- January
8, 2010 -- News
Clippings
from
the Past, Part 4
- January 21 -- Through
the Eyes of an Issei: The
Internment of Japanese in the United States during World War II
- Excerpts from Life Behind Barbed Wire by Yasutaro
Soga
- April 29 -- Tule Lake
Pressure Boys - From March 20, 1944 issue of LIFE
magazine
- May 22 -- Transcription in progress on J. L. DeWitt's 1942 Final
Report on the evacuation
of persons of Japanese ancestry from certain areas on the West Coast
(separate pages for Figures
images, Pictorial
Summary images, and Tables)
- May 26 -- Affidavit
of Jiro Nakahara - Description of atrocities by a Nisei who
worked for the Imperial Japanese Navy as a civilian radio monitor
- August 12 -- So
Very Far From Home - very
moving film about civilian internees in China, for
comparative studies
- December 3 -- On
the Japanese Problem - background articles from the early
1900's on immigration and land policies regarding the Japanese
in the US
- October
26, 2012 - Maps of Pacific War and Japanese Conquests
added to Comments
- October 30 - HTML version (with photos) of 1942
report Investigation Of Un-American
Propaganda Activities In The United States - Report on Japanese
Activities
posted. This document provides an immense amount of background
information on the reasons for evacuation of ethnic Japanese from the
West Coast.
- April
5, 2013 - Added Jan. 10, 1945 Assistant Attorney General John
Burling reply to the Tule Lake Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan and
Hokoku Seinen Dan groups
- April 6 - Ringle's Statement
on the Japanese Question, June 19, 1942, with more content
than Ringle Report of Jan. 1942; Edward
Ennis letter to ACLU Director Ernest Besig, Aug. 22, 1945,
regarding detention of renunciants
- April 9 - WRA
publications 1943-1947, a collection of PDF files pending
transcription
- April 17 - Added to Ringle webpage On the Japanese Question in the U.S.: A Compilation of Memoranda by Lt. Cmdr. K. D. Ringle, June 19, 1942
- April 19 - Munson report Japanese on the West Coast, Nov. 1941
- April 22 - Further info from Munson; Stimson on Munson Report; MacArthur on the Nikkei and Japanese treatment of civilians in the Philippines
- November 17, 2015 - Comments on the News
- November 21 - Questions to ask
- February 28, 2017 - new webpage, Nisei in His Majesty's Imperial Service
|