Re: Dutch Film - "Black Book"

On Jun 12, 1:02 pm, Rich Rostrom <rrostrom.21stcent...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

(BTW, WTF were Indian PoWs doing way out in the
Pacific? Were the Japs shipping them somewhere
to be used as slave labor? Were any such ever
encountered by U.S. forces?)
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The Japanese routinely shipped work parties of POWs around their
bases. The Australian and British POWs at Sandakan had been shipped
from Changi. Some POWs went from Java to Changi to the Death railway
to Kanchanaburi to Sumatra, Changi, or Japan (sometimes via Saigon).
A number of US POWs went from Cabanatuan to Davao back to Manila and
then to Japan or mainland Asia.

The Japanese had several POW camps on New Guinea. ISTR that most of
those POWs had been shipped in from the NEI or Malaya. There was a US
raid which rescued some of the POWs, but most died in captivity. In
one camp, the Japanese assigned numbers to the POWs (there were only
100 remaining at that point). When your number came up, you were
lunch. One or two POWs from that camp somehow survived.

Mike

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