... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ...
1945 -
... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ... ... what is nowadays, the city of Weifang canot be seen in the background.
Didn't exist yet.
Only visible were the fields, the stream and the grave mounds beyond the camp walls.
Within the perimeter of the camp -- on the left, is block-23. On the right, the big three story building is: Shadyside Hospital.
The rows of little rooms (our "cells") can be seen approximately in the middle of the picture.
In the foreground, the small square construction - out of bounds - is the jail-house and adjascent to that (left-side), was the compound cemetery, (not visible on the photo).
The two villas just beyond the jail are: Jap-quarters. I found four Jap villas on the photo. They took the best ... and we had the rest.
Block-50 is quite visible (with a magnifying glass), and so is the hospital's water tower towering above the treetops.
Also visible is the administrative building included in our part of the camp ... but I am not quite sure of that.
1945 -
... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ... ... very visible on this photo, is the deep moat our captors digged after Tipton and Hummel escaped. It was said that we were to be burried in that trench!
Very visible in the gaoliang fields are the numerous grave mounds.
On the right (background), is the Chinese village and from that village, the little river flowing upstream towards the "city".
1945 -
... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ...
1945 -
... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ...
1945 -
... picture taken by a low flying B-29 bomber a few days after our liberation by the Americans ...
1945 -
... the Weihsien compound is quite visible on the right. The B-29 bomber must be heading very low, approx. South-East. Amongst the soghurn fields and the grave mounds, we can see the many Weihsien internees and Chinese locals on the road (or path) to locate the many canisters dropped by the U.S. bombers.
1945 -
... close-up view of the food canisters still attached to their parachutes.
