1943, Japan, , WW II-Era Christmas POW Card


1943;Japan; ; WW II-Era Christmas POW Card 
1943;Japan; ; WW II-Era Christmas POW Card


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1943, Japan,

NOTES


From the Omori Camp, in Tokyo Bay.


Omori was by the end of 1943 a slave-labor camp with harsh conditions, so almost certainly not a camp-printed card, and sent as a New Year rather than a Christmas greeting. But the message says it was given to the POW by the priest who celebrated Christmas mass, so included here.


Kieran Finnegan: The sender “Gunner Michaerl Giblin, RA was captured in Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941 and was one of 620 of the first POWs to be sent to Japan as a direct punishment foor refusing to sign a NO ESCAPE form in Hong Kong.”





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