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Everything tagged "harrison forman"

It's That Man Again!-Harrison Forman-HK Daily Press-16-08-1940

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

A name familar to readers on this site

Hong Kong-Harrison Forman speaks to the nation-HK Daily Press-19-08-1941

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

The well-known on this site, photographer-journalist expresses his views on the situation in Hong Kong

man carried in sedan, downtown Hong Kong - 1941

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

Armed junk-Hong Kong-1948

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1948

Back in the early 1970s one of our hiking companions told tales of his activities gun running and moving strategic goods up to Canton at night on armed Junks just after the war. At the time I never really believed him as he didn't seem the type who would get involved in such things. More recently I came across a number of pictures dated circa 1948 in the Harrison Forman Collection often mentioned on this site, of Junks armed with vintage cannons, guns and armour plating around the decks moored in Hong Kong. Supposedly blockade runners.

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