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

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2017-02-10 01:17

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

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
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PW Supply Mission to North Point POW Camp

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2017-02-10 01:03

Text on Flickr:

PW Supply Mission to Ngon Shon Chow, Hong Kong

This must be a literal translation of the Chinese name of the camp in Hong Kong., because I can not find even anything close to that name in the list of Japanese PW Camps in HK. Any suggestions?

Actually, the camp is North Point Refugee / POW camp [????- ]

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
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1945
pow camp

PW Supply Mission to Argyle Street POW Camp

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2017-02-10 00:53

Text on Flickr:
PW Supply Mission to North Point, Hong Kong. This was a notorious Japanese PW Camp in China.

Correct location is Argyle Street POW Camp, with Ma Tau Chung/Ma Tau Wai Camp (see comment below).

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
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1945
pow camp

Peak Tram station at May Road (1945)

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2017-02-08 23:52
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Uploaded from "University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China",  reference number: EV-s25. Uploaded with kind permission by the University of Bristol.

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Cliff Railway. "Hong Kong". December 1945.

That was shortly after the reopening day on Christmas 1945. 

Work on airfield Ping Shan 1945

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-01-30 22:19

Text on Flickr: Work on airfield Ping Shan,Hong Kong across the bay.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
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Hailing a bus, Hong Kong, 1945

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-01-30 04:16
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Uploaded from "University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China",  reference number: EV-s21. Uploaded with kind permission by the University of Bristol.

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Street Scene. "Hong Kong" December 1945.

Des Voeux Road.

Pui Shan, Hong Kong, 1945

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-01-30 04:04
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Uploaded from "University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China",  reference number: RB-t0875. Uploaded with kind permission by the University of Bristol.

Notes

Photograph by Air Vice-Marshal A.L. Fiddament, taken during a round the world fact finding trip. Caption in Fiddament's notebook: Hong Kong - Pui Shan 27/11/45.

Possibly connected to the proposed PingShan Aerodrome.

HK-Canton-Macao Steamboat Company-1st postwar General Meeting

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2017-01-28 21:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1947

Not a good reproduction from a microfilmed photocopy of the SCMP but just about readable. This text was not the primary subject of the page being copied.

Hong Kong from the air, 1945

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2017-01-28 17:57
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Uploaded from "University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China",  reference number: RB-t0867. Uploaded with kind permission by the University of Bristol.

Aerial View of Kowloon Peninsula 1945

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2017-01-28 01:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Uploaded from "University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China",  reference number: RB-t0868. Uploaded with kind permission by the University of Bristol.

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