The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) assisting one of their sick comrades at the POW Camp. Leaning against the door jamb is NX42145 Corporal L. O. Pyers (right), a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) being evacuated from the POW Camp by bus to the train which took them to the Japanese Naval Hospital, Sama Bay. On the extrem
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. The Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp Hospital with the Dutch ward on the right.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. As Lieutenant Walker (left) of the US Office of Strategic Services and Japanese stand by, liberated Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) are being evacuated by tr
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. VX38728 Corporal L. D. Benvie, a member of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, a survivor of the action at Laha, Ambon, and VX22392 Signalman C
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) aboard a bus about to be transported from the POW Camp to the train which took them to the Japanese Naval Hospital at Sama Ba
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Although the Japanese had directed that all sick and debilitated were to be take to Hainan from Ambon as hospital facilities would be available there, this
