The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. General view of the prisoner of war (POW) Camp Hospital. Note the wooden shutters all along the wall, open to let in sun and air.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. The train used to evacuate ex-prisoners of war (POWs), including members of the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion Group, who were liberated by a detachm
Sama Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Informal portrait of Captain Leonard Woods, a member of the US Office of Strategic Services, who was responsible for the liberation of Allied prisoners of w
Sama Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Walker, a member of the US Office of Strategic Services, of which a detachment liberated Allied prisoners of war (POWs), inc
The nine members of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) who parachuted in Hainan Island on 27 August 1945 to liberate Allied prisoners of war. Among those liberated by the OSS were remnants of t
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. One of the Australian prisoners of war (POWs) at the Bakli POW Camp liberated by the US Office of Strategic Services, VX40359 Private G. H. Kissick, a memb
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Lieutenant Colonel W. J. R. Scott DSO, Officer Commanding 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion and Senior Officer at the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp,
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Japanese officers, accompanied by members of the US Office of Strategic Services, pass the Australian Barracks on their way to the Camp Hospital in the pri
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. A bus load of Dutch officers en route from the prisoner of war (POW) Camp to the train which took them to the Japanese Naval Hospital, Sama Bay.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Sergeant Visser, Dutch Medical Orderly, in the limited pharmacy at the Bakli prisoner of war (POW) Camp Hospital.
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. Dutch stretcher patients being loaded on to the truck at the prisoner of war (POW) Camp for transport to the train which took them and other liberated POWs
Bakli Bay, Hainan Island. c. 28 August 1945. A Dutch stretcher case about to be loaded on to a truck at the prisoner of war (POW) Camp for transport to the train which took service personnel and civil
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. QX11190 Sapper A. G. Pearson, an inmate of the prisoner of war (POW) Camp Hospital. Sapper Pearson is suffering from beri-beri.
