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A recon photo of a Japanese POW Camp (King Park)

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A recon photo of a Japanese POW Camp (King Park)
Submitted by Klaus. View the original image on Flickr.
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Sms_S
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1945
pow camp

Text on Flickr: A recon photo of a Japanese POW Camp near Hong Kong, China

Before the big "PW Supply Missions", several dozen B-29's went out to scout locations of the camps.. then over the next few weeks they made repeat flights, but with hundreds of tonnes of supplies for the starving, tortured allied POWs

 To read more info and more photos on the huge PW Supply Missions flown by the B-29s.., see here: ww.flickr.com/photos/330thbg/albums/72157639632511874

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Saturday, September 1, 1945
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1940s Hong Kong
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Submitted by David on Fri, 2017-02-10 16:35.

Kowloon Magistracy in the foreground (https://gwulo.com/node/14864) so the camp should be the King's Park refugee camp (https://gwulo.com/node/34833). I don't think it was ever called the Ma Tau Chung camp, though I'm not sure what it was used for during the Japanese occupation.

Great photos but whoever wrote the captions on them got the locations muddled up!

Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2017-02-11 16:43.

Agreed, King Park Refugee Camp.

Submitted by slpkopan on Wed, 2021-12-15 21:51.
I can provide higher resolution if you would like.