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

Fri, 02/10/2017 - 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

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

Source: This image came from Flickr, see https://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=30684987263

Date picture taken

1 Sep 1945

Comments

Kowloon Magistracy in the

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!