Nagoya #5B 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.
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