PRISONERS OF THE SAMURAI

 

CONTENTS


 

 

FOREWORD [click on the green dot] go to  

 

INTRODUCTION [click on the green dot] go to  

 

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS [click on the green dot] go to  

 

CHAPTER 1   

THE RAID WHICH STARTED IT ALL Mitsuo Fuchida and the Pearl Harbor Raid. The Fall of Hong Kong Internment in Stanley Camp, January 1942 Imprisonment in Shamshuipo, January 1942

 

CHAPTER 2   

ALLIED PERSONNEL IN THE NORTH CONVERGE ON WEIXIAN

After Pearl Harbor - Qingdao, Weihai, Jinan, Tian

Peking, Chefoo.

Internment in Temple Hill, Chefoo, November 19 Internment in Weixian, March 1943

Temple Hill Camp moves to Weixian Camp, Sept Catholic priests and nuns move from Weixian Cal Informal Centres in Peking, August 1943.

 

CHAPTER 3   

THE END OF THE GOOD LIFE IN SHANGHAI

Bridge House Prison, December 1941 Haifong Road Camp, November 1942 From the Cathedral to Pudong Camp, January 1943 and to Yangzhou Camps A, B & C, February 1943

 

CHAPTER 4   

THE COMPLETION OF INTERNMENT IN SHANGHAI

Columbia Country Club Camp - March, 1943 From the Columbia Country Club assembly point Longhua, Yu Yuen Road, Ash and Zhabei Camps,

 

 

CHAPTER 5   

PRIESTS, NUNS & MISSIONARIES,        AND THE "INFORMAL CENTRES"

Missionary and Merchant in China The influence of Protestants and Catholics in the camps "Informal Centres" - Shenyang, Harbin, Siping, Xiujiahui,

Canton, Peking

Kiyoshi Watanabe, the knight in shining armour

 

CHAPTER 6   

LATE CAMP MOVEMENTS AND JOURNEYS TO DESTINATIONS UNKNOWN

Shamshuipo P.O.W. Camp and the Lisbon Maru, October 1942 Italians to Weixian Camp, September 1943 Yangzhou Camps A & B to Shanghai Camps, October 1943 The elderly and sick interned in Lincoln Avenue Camp, June 1944

Jiangwan Prison Camp to Japan, May 1945 Haifong Road Camp to Fengtai, June 1945

Columbia Country Club Camp and Yu Yuen Road Camp to Yangshupu Camp, June 1945

Stanley Camp Technicians and their families to Kowloon, Aug. 1945

 

-- CHAPTER 7 [click on the green dot] go to Chapter 7

   AN OVERVIEW OF THE CAMPS

Food, the Red Cross, Black Market Accommodation and privacy Letters Rollcall Camp Committees

Schooling, Adult Education, Music & Drama Inventiveness and improvisation International Conventions

 

CHAPTER 8   

PRISONER EXCHANGES AND REPATRIATIONS

The Special Division

1st American Repatriation, June 1942 British Repatriation, August 1942

2nd American Repatriation, August 1943

 

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ESCAPES FROM THE CAMPS

Camp regulations

Corporate reprisal

Escapes - Hong Kong - Stanley Camp, March & April, 1942 Shamshuipo, April 1942

Weixian - June, 1944

Longhua - Sept. 1943, Dec. 1943, May 1944, Aug. 1944.

 

CHAPTER 10

THE DOOLITTLE RAID AND ITS PRISONERS

The Raid, April 1942

Three captured from 6th plane Five captured from 16th plane

Executions. Imprisonment in Shanghai, Tokyo, Jiangwan,

Nanjing and Peking.

 

CHAPTER 11 

SURVIVING THE LAST LAP

Deterioration in health Low standards in nutrition Allied air raids: Hong Kong and Shanghai Fears about the future. Weixian Camp - Approaches by Guerrillas, Communist Army, Allies in Chongqing, Office of Strategic Studies.

 

CHAPTER 12 

THE DAY FOR WHICH WE LONGED ― YET DREADED

Atomic bombs and the Japanese surrender News reaches the camps Release and Repatriation Japanese P.O.W.s and civilians

 

CHAPTER 13 

LIGHT AND BRIGHT MOMENTS

Humour in the war

Acts of kindness by the Japanese

Jacob De Shazer teams up with Mitsuo Fuchida Forgiveness and reconciliation