Nagoya #5-B Yokkaichi Formerly Osaka #17

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Location: 5-B YOKKAICHI (ISHIHARA SANGYO) MIE-ken, YOKKAICHI ISHIHARA-machi, No. 1 Relief Map - relative location to other camps in area Street Map Location: slow loading Satellite View - requires Google Maps; view as of today. 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: Courtesy of Wes Injerd Click for full view See More Images- Extensive site of Wes Injerd Absolutely worth viewing the entire collection

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. 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 of men: 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. (PDF file)

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)