The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. An aerial view of part of Koyagi Island showing the Fukuoka No 2 Prisoner of War Camp (lower left, the double hollow squares or figure-of-eight buildings). This camp held allied prisoners of war who all worked at the Kawanami Brothers shipyards. The shipyards employed about 60,000 workers including 1500 allied prisoners of war (POW). The POWs who worked in the shipyards comprised two groups. The first, of about 550 British, with some Australians, 500 Dutch and 100 Americans, arrived in 1942, embarking on the Asama Maru at Macassar on 1942-10-14, arriving at Nagasaki 1942-10-24. The other group of 198 Australians arrived 1944-09-09 after a 70 day voyage from Singapore on the Rashin Maru.
Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. The Kawanami Brothers shipyards with the docks facing Nagasaki Bay. The shipyards employed about 60,000 workers including 1500 allied prisoners of war (POW). The
Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. The Kawanami Brothers shipyards with the docks facing Nagasaki Bay and the mountains of the Japanese mainland in the background. The shipyards employed about 60,0
Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. An aerial view of Fukuoka No. 2 Prisoner of War Camp on Koyagi Island. This photograph was taken by an USAAF aircraft late in 1945 as the roofs of the buildings a
Nakama, Japan, 1945. A group portrait of prisoners of war (POWs) at Camp 21, a coal mine about thirty miles from Nagasaki. The POWs where transferred from Fukuoka No. 2 Prisoner of War Camp, Koyagi Is
The first ship built at the Kawanami Brothers shipyard, Koyagi Island, Nagasaki in 1937. During the Second World War prisoners of war of the Japanese worked at the shipyards.
Starboard side view of the Japanese passenger vessel Asama Maru. The Asama Maru was order by Nippon Yussen K.K. and entered service on the Japan San Fransisco line in September 1929. During the second
