Nagoya POW Camp #5-B Yokkaichi (Formerly Osaka #17)

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Location: 5-B YOKKAICHI (ISHIHARA SANGYO) MIE-ken, YOKKAICHI ISHIHARA-machi, No. 1 Satellite View Relief Map - relative location to other camps in area Time Line: 11 Aug 1944: Established as Osaka 17-B Branch Camp 6 Apr 1945: Command changed to Nagoya Area Command, Established as Nagoya 5-B 25 May 1945: (date approximate) - 150 men transferred out to Nagoya #7B Toyama Sept 1945: Rescue effected Camp Photographs: More images

Labor: Sulphuric Acid Manufacturing Hell Ship: Most Americans from the Canadian Inventor and Nissyo Maru Rosters: British (25) pending Dutch - (74) plus 3 deceased transcribed by Mr. Robin Kalhorn Americans: (196) possibly missing a few names and our count (189) does not match other records. New rescue roster located in RG 407 Box 102 pending transcription (see below PDF file). Original rosters NAG-05_Death_Certificates_RG407Bx189 List of Deceased: Based upon typewritten report of Lt Col Guy Stubbs, Rg 407 - [This may be in error as Col Stubbs' report clearly states it was Nagoya #7-B but he was sent there after this camp] Books: Heimbuch, Raymond C., I'm One of the Lucky Ones - I Came Home Alive, Dageforde Publishing, Inc., 2003. POW Camps at Camp Casisang and Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao and Yokkaichi and Toyama in Japan. Affidavits: Dutch soldier, Frank Samethini, discusses his experience at Yokkaichi before his transfer to another camp, Nag #7 thence to Nagoya #11. Very well written. Affidavits of Harley E. Shadoan regarding the brutality of the Japanese guards. Provided by his son, Harley E. Shadoan Jr. Page 1       Page 2 Stories: Biography of Carl Robert Ruse by Timothy Ruse; more can be found here. Book also available: "We Volunteered." War diary of Dutch POW, F.W. Baumeister, translated into English by daughter, Irene. See this special page on Baumeister and the POW supply air drop of Aug. 30, 1945. See also more on the hospital ship USNHS Rescue. Wilhelmus Winnemuller - Dutch POW (Java, Singapore, Thailand, and Yokkaichi

Camp Layout: (The following information, made from original documents, is courtesy of Irene Kusnadi-Baumeister, daughter of F.W. Baumeister, at POW camps: Java->Singapore->Thailand Death Railway->Japan.) Translation: VILLAGE road from the village to the factory A, B Rooms, 40 men each W guard JK Jap office KP CDT camp cmndr OKJ Jap reception room GW armed guard S shoemaker K tailor CT camp dentist ST stores JK Jap kitchen JST Jap stores K kitchen BW homeguard KK dressing room BK bathroom WZ waiting room H hospital KH hospital office A pharmacy RW spare watertank OFF officers HP main gate AP back gate * guardhouses . cooking pans -X- shelters BEACH Prisoner of War Camp YOKKAICHI (OSAKA NIPPON) 613 PERSONS of which 6 officers, 10 S.M., 203 non-coms, 394 crew Dutch=152; English=52; American=409 Relief Supply Air Drops: By aircraft from HMS Indefatigable on 30 AUG 1945. See this special page on this air drop.