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29-10-2006, 02:56 PM
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 | Pow Rangoon Burma Hi all Ime a new memeber. My father was a POW in Rangoon Burma for about 3yrs and never spoke of his experience.Sadley he died in 2001and I am trying to piece together that part of his life he never spoke about. Have any of you out there got any tales to tell  Jean |
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29-10-2006, 03:08 PM
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| does any one have any info on the rangoon POW camp in Burma my father was a pow there and never spoke of it although he did have terrible nightmares sadley he died in 2001 and i am trying to piece together a part of his life he never spoke about |
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29-10-2006, 03:13 PM
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 | Welcome Jean, Good luck with your quest.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-10-2006, 03:15 PM
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| Can you place his full name and his regiment?
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-10-2006, 03:18 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-10-2006, 04:11 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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|  to the forum Jean, Good luck with your research.
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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31-01-2007, 08:04 PM
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 | Another POW Database Another database of POW camps on the Japanese mainland. This one has satellite images: Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Page 1 Camp list with sat images (great for looking at the geography of the camp locations - almost no remains of the camps themselves) JAPAN POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY
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