The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Island and according to their health either worked in the mine or as gardeners. The miners worked night and day shifts. Among the group are known to be J. Garrioch, A. Carne, and "Happy" Day in the back row and Wrigley and "Ginger" Shawcross in the front row. The POWs were from two original 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 14 October 1942, arriving at Nagasaki 24 October 1942. The other group of 198 Australians arrived 9 September 1944 after a 70 day voyage from Singapore on the Rashin Maru. (Donor J. King)
Members of No. 5 Course Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) meet the English entertainer Noel Coward. Left to right: 400396 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Ho
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 c
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
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
FUKUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, 1945-09. SICK AND INJURED ALLIED PRISONERS-OF-WAR (POWS), RECENTLY LIBERATED FROM FUKUOKA CAMP 17 AT OMUTA, IN A HOSPITAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO NAGASAKI, ON THE FIRST LEG OF THE
