Sendai POW Camp #2B Yoshima, Fukushima [1944-????]

Prisoner of War camp in Japan where more than two hundred POWs from Hong Kong were imprisoned. The camp was also known as Tokyo Number 14 Dispatched Camp, or Yoshima Camp. (To show the map details above, select the ESRI map layer.)

Timeline:

• 30 Mar 1944 - The camp was established as Tokyo Number 14 Dispatched Camp.
• 13 May 1944 - 220 Hong Kong POWs arrived at the camp. They had sailed from Hong Kong on board the SS Naura Maru. They would work in a nearby coal mine.
• 14 April 1945 - The camp was moved from the Tokyo POW Camp  administration to the Sendai POW Camp administration, becoming the Sendai Number 2 Branch Camp.
• 15 Aug 1945 - Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender
• 4 Sep 1945 - The ex-POWs began their journeys home, boarding coal wagons for a train ride to Tokyo, where they were met by the American armed forces.

List of POWs from Hong Kong in this camp:
(The list is a work in progress. To add a name to the list, create a page for the person, and add the tag POW camp - Sendai 2B)

Sources:

• Sendai POW Camp #2-B, Yoshima, Fukushima on the website of the 'Center for research, Allied POWs under the Japanese'
• We Shall Suffer There by Tony Banham