[A WIFE SENDS MAIL TO HER CIVILAN HUSBAND WHO AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE BACK AND PARALYZED DURING THE INVASION OF GUAM WAS IMPRISONED IN A JAPANESE POW CAMP]; Mail sent to Mr. Frank Perry at a Japanese prison camp by his wife in San Francisco by Florence Perry to Frank Perry - 1945
by Florence Perry to Frank Perry
[A WIFE SENDS MAIL TO HER CIVILAN HUSBAND WHO AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE BACK AND PARALYZED DURING THE INVASION OF GUAM WAS IMPRISONED IN A JAPANESE POW CAMP]; Mail sent to Mr. Frank Perry at a Japanese prison camp by his wife in San Francisco
by Florence Perry to Frank Perry
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"This item was bought from Tom Jackson. It was given to him in the camp in Japan."
Jackson was a former British airman who had been captured on Java and imprisoned at Zentsuji Sub Camp No. 2, Innoshima Island.
At their peak, the Zentsuji camps held about 5,500 British, Australian, and American prisoners during the war. Little has been published in English about them, however the Gibbs Report states that prisoners worked as laborers in nearby ship building facilities. (For more information, see Mansell's Capture: The Forgotten Men of Guam, Niiyama's "British POW Leaves Diary. . .. at The Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima Peace Media Center online, Center for Research: Allied POWs Under the Japanese: Zensuji Camp Shikuko 1942-1945 and Hiroshima POW Camp #5-B Innoshima, Department of the Army All -Japan POW Camp Group History and Gruenzner's Postal History of American POWs. . . .
Quite a scarce item documenting the imprisonment of a paralyzed American civilian in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
- Bookseller Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC (US)
- Format/Binding Envelope or Cover
- Book Condition Used - Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Place of Publication San Francisco to Shikoku Island, Japan via New York City
- Date Published 1945