prisoner/POW

Column of conquered Japanese soldiers at Kiangwan Air Base, Shanghai. Photo from Milton King.

Japanese army patients at the Wuchang Hospital after the hostilities had ceased. Photo by Way. In the CBI.

A Chinese prisoner being taken to execution site by Nationalist soldiers during WWII.

A Chinese prisoner being interrogated by the Chinese and Americans during WWII.

21 August 1944 During WWII, two Japanese prisoners captured on Sung Shan Hill by the Chinese when the Japanese were blasted out of their strong pill-boxes by 6000 pounds of dynamite set off under them. Wounded and dazed by the blast many prisoners asked to be killed when captured. Chinese insisted on treating them as prisoners of war. Photo by...

Two Japanese POWs caught on the Burma Road, near Baoshan. During WWII.

Conscripts being loaded onto transport, or Japanese prisoners being loaded. In China during WWII.

Indian Soldiers, who had been prisoners of the Japanese for two and a half years, and escaped when American B-25s bombed their captors into shelter at Mangshih (Mangshi), march into a Chinese town after working their way to Chinese lines. 29 September 1944. Photo by Pvt. C. H. Hatfield.