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POW Research Network Japan; Map of WWII Japanese POW camps; Okinoyama – The Story of a Coal Mine, John Oxley Library blog, State Library of Queensland. Includes digitised photographs of within the Okinoyama Prisoner of War Camp. A comprehensive English-language site in Japan with exact opening/closure resp. renaming/reclassification dates of ...
Other confrontations between Japanese POWs and their guards occurred at Camp McCoy in Wisconsin during May 1944 as well as a camp in Bikaner, India during 1945; these did not result in any fatalities. [70] In addition, 24 Japanese POWs killed themselves at Camp Paita, New Caledonia in January 1944 after a planned uprising was foiled. [71]
Fukuoka 17. Fukuoka #17 - Omuta, Branch Prisoner of War Camp was a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp located at the Mitsui Kozan Miike Kogyo-Sho coal mine and Mitsui Zinc Foundry in Shinminato-machi, Omuta-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, during World War II. It was the largest POW camp in Japan.
The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a POW camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia. It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest. During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers were killed and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed ...
Ōfuna prisoner-of-war camp. The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所, Ōfuna shūyōsho) was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were incarcerated and interrogated by Japanese naval ...
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom.
Camp Nong Pladuk (also: Nompuradokku[1]) was a Japanese prisoner of war transit camp during World War II. It was located about five kilometres from the main railway station of Ban Pong [2] near a junction station on the Southern Line to Bangkok. Nong Pladuk served as the starting point of the Burma Railroad. Numerous British, Dutch, and allied ...
Ōmori was the site of an Imperial Japanese Army-administered prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The inhumane conditions in the camp were described in detail in the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption describing the life of American Olympic Athlete Louis Zamperini.