World War II (POW-MIA)

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Lie in the Dark and Listen Autobiography book of Wing Commander Ken Rees, 2nd World War bomber pilot and his Great Escape from Stalag Luft 3. http://homepages.tesco.net/~xplanesx/html/the_book.htm A Katyn and World War Two Diary Young officer survived the execution of 27,000 Polish POW's by Stalin, and went on to fight Nazism. Diaries and letters chronicle Poland's Holocaust. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/6764/Katyn1.html 2/20th Battalion 8th Division AIF,Singapore and Beyond The fall of Singapore during World War II, led the 2/20th Battalion 8th Division AIF to become POW's. http://geocities.com/batt2_20/home.htm Twelve Hundred Days - Russell A. Grokett, Sr. WWII POW A biography of Russell A. Grokett's survival of the Bataan Death March, including three years as a Japanese Prisoner of War. http://home.comcast.net/~rgrokett/POW/index.htm World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I Narratives and pics of Allied prisoners of war in Germany at Stalag Luft I during World War II. Official War Dept. documents, the secret newspaper, artwork, and the German interrogators. http://www.merkki.com/ Captain George Duffy's Prisoner of War page George Duffy writes about his experience as an American Merchant Mariner who was Prisoner of War (POW) of both the Germans and Japanese during World War II. http://www.usmm.org/duffy.html Long Way - Watom Island The life of a World War II prisoner of war in East New Britain Province. http://www.colindocketty.co.uk/watombo/visit.html World War 2 Historical Research A research service for World War 2 & Korean POW/MIAs families. http://www.ww2research.com/ London Far East POW's Association Formed in 1947, shortly after the release of Japanese P.O.W. camps in the Far East. http://www.fepow.org.uk/ Robert D. Reeves - Peoria to Munich - A Prisoner of War The story of one man's experiences in WWII as a Prisoner of War at Stalag VII-a, near Moosburg. http://www.lp-net.com/pow/ Ian Henry Duncan POW 1942 - 1945 This is the readable online diary of Sgt. I. H. Duncan, a POW WW2 in Italy and Germany. http://www.ww2log.co.uk/ Colditz Castle Oflag IVC A tour of Colditz Castle. Escapes from Colditz Castle. By Paul Dean. http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/8963/ Island Farm POW Camp 198 / Special Camp 11 German POW camp in Bridgend, Wales, Great Britain called Camp 198. http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/ United States Marines in North China Records of US Marine POWs held in China by the Japanese during World War II. http://www.northchinamarines.com/ POW John T Murray The story of Prisoner of War, John T. Murray, 2nd Echelon 7th Anti Tank Regiment, from New Zealand. http://www.angelfire.com/nd/domneal/powar.html World War II - List of Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps How to order reports about a list of Japanese camps holding American POW during World War 2. http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-3.htm Never Forgotten - The story of the Taiwan POW Camps The story of the Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during World War II. http://www.powtaiwan.org/ Ghost of Bataan POW survivor Abie Abraham tells the real truth about the Death March and prison camps in Bataan. http://www.ghostofbataan.com/ National Ex-Prisoner of War Association Promotes the welfare of those made Prisoner of War during their service with the United Kingdom or Allied Forces. http://prisonerofwar.freeservers.com/ Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexico, Inc. Commemorates the New Mexico 200th Coast Artillery, defenders of Bataan and Corregidor who suffered the Bataan Death March and three and a half years as prisoners of the Japanese. http://members.aol.com/bcmfofnm/index.html MIA Joseph Thompson Joseph Thompson has been MIA since 1943 when his plane was lost over Paupa New Guinea. http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/josephthompson Culture region Colditz : Gateway to Saxony : Oflag IVC Virtual tour of Colditz including Castle, used as POW camp for Allied officers in WWII. http://www.colditz-4c.com/ Relics of the Battle of the Bulge Identified items lost by American soldiers. http://www.geocities.com/eft435/bulge3.htm World War II - Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps Basic facts for U.S. POWs held by the Empire of Japan during 1941-1945, with more than 37% dying in captivity. http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-2.htm Sirenstorm/Majic Ink - Speedo! Speedo! New book by UK ex-POW, who endured the hardships of the Thai-Burma railway project. http://www.sirenstorm.com/majicink.html Prisoner of War book - POW-83 Story of one man's struggle to survive the Japanese death camps in the Philippines during World War II. http://www.prisonerofwar.net/ POWs in Japan, World War II, POW Camps A wherehouse of information on Allied POWS under the Japanese in World War II. http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html Prisoner Of War Eyewitness account by Dr. Paul Ashton, medical staff of the US Bataan force, contained in two books, Bataan Diary and a section called And Somebody Gives a Damn. http://www.prisonerofwar.com/ Swiss Internees Association A site comprised of the stories of U.S. Army Air Force veterans who endured captivity by the Swiss Government during WWII. http://swissinternees.tripod.com/ World War II, My Grandfather's Story A grandson tells of the horrific and sometimes funny experiences his grandfather had as an infantryman and a Prisoner of War in Germany during World War II. http://www.angelfire.com/super2/homer Fepow Community Dedicated to the POW's held by the Japanese. http://www.fepow-community.org.uk COFEPOW - Children of Far East Prisoners of War A charity perpetuating the memory of those Prisoners of War who were held captive in South East Asia during World War II. http://www.cofepow.org.uk Oryoku Maru Online 1,619 men were herded aboard a Japanese Prisoner Of War "Hell Ship." This is their story. Includes searchable POW list. http://www.oryokumaruonline.org/ Willie Jamieson's Internment 1941-1945 Los Banos WWII POW Missionary shares his World War II POW experience. http://www.geocities.com/ithascome/Wim-Jamieson-Internment.html In Hell There Is A Place Called Death's Railway Stanley Willner's experience as a prisoner of war of the Japanese at the River Kwai. http://www.angelstation.com/swillner/ Prisoner of War A site about the experiences of allied Prisoners of War held during World War II. http://www.pegasus-one.org/pow/ "And So ..." - Royal Navy stoker from Crete to German POW Memoirs of a Royal Navy stoker captured at Crete, who spent four years as a German POW. http://www.naval-history.net/WW2MemoirAndSo00.htm Gunther Pluschow - only POW to Escape from Great Britain The story of the only POW to escape from Great Britain. http://www.pluschow.iofm.net/ My Hitch In Hell! The story of a WWII U.S. Marine who was a POW of the Japanese. http://www.think.org/pow/the_march.html WWII POW Research of Stalag Lutfs Extensive WWII POW research of Stalag Lufts in Europe along with the B-24 Liberator bombers of the 392nd BG. http://www.b24.net/pow/index.htm Deliverance! It has come! WWII, POW Diary (1942-1945) This site is in memory of Herman Beaber who was a WWII POW in Los Banos, Philippines. http://www.geocities.com/ithascome/ The Jordan Experience An ordinary man, Sport Jordan, is swept up into WW2 becomes a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. http://www.patribella.com World War II POW: Major Robert Goldsworthy This is the story of WWII POW Robert Goldsworthy http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1388/ Mitsubishi Sendai #6 (Hanawa) POW Camp Stories of survival by the Allied POWs working as slave labor for Mitsubishi Copper Mining. http://www.mitsubishisucks.com/slave-labor/camps/hanawa/ World War II - Axis Prisoner of War (POW) Camps Lists Axis POW camp reports from National Archives and provided by American Ex-Prisoners of War http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-1.htm World War II A large compilation of WW II links for researchers including Army Air Force Bombardment Groups links. http://www.powmiaff.org/wwII.html An American Hero: Benjamin Franklin Edwards WWII 20th AirForce, 500th Bomb Group, 881st Squadron on Saipan, Marianas Islands, this is the story of Benjamin Franklin Edwards, MIA from WWII, Navigator on the Rosalia Rocket and the crew, some of whom remain missing to this day. http://www.20thaaf.com/500thBG/881stSq/RosaliaRocket/edwards.html Lest We Forget: The Railway of Death Fred Seiker's book containing paintings and stories of life as a Japanese POW building the Thai-Burma Railway. http://www.beverevivis.com/books/lestweforget/ Animals of the POW camps in America durring World War Two Stories of animals in American Prisoner of War camps during World War II. http://animalsinamericanpowcamps.com/ Prisoner of Camp #1 - Fukuoka, Japan An insight into life and death at a POW camp in wartime Fukuoka. With actual testimonies of those who were there, both Allied and Japanese. http://home.comcast.net/~winjerd/POWCamp1.htm

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