Stories categorised in 'Prisoners of War'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
The German shells straddled the merchant ship whilst the replies from dad's ship were falling short of...
This brought memories flooding back of my time as a prisoner of war in Japan and being forced to work as a...
He then went to Chichester, Sussex, where he carried out convoy escorts in the English Cannel and raids...
Donald was later to meet up with this young German girl in Czestochowa and to save her from the liberating...
HMS Prince of Wales was part of Force Z which was at Kuantan, Malaya when the Force was attacked by...
The Italian officers and guards abandoned the camp and Fred, his friend Ron Ford and an Irish Guardsman...
Already an enthusiastic amateur radio builder, he trained as a wireless operator/air gunner at RAF Cranwell...
We were placed 500 POWs to each American troop transport, all of which flew the designated recognition...
My father spent 4 years in a Japanese P.O.W. camp from Sept....
The Japs started to land where we were in Sumatra... We did two or three ops, using Dutch 200kg bombs that...
The Lisbon Maru was sunk by the American Submarine Grouper near the Chusan Islands close to Shng Hai...
In April , Alice who was living with the family, went to visit a ‘Psychic’ friend named Phyllis...
After his extraordinary escape from Norway across the boarder to Sweden, Sugata was put into a Swedish...
My father-in-law, Allan Wolfe was a Bren gunner in the 6 Btn Royal West Kents in May, 1940. The older...
What follows is Brian Asquith's memories of the battle of Calais and subsequent capture. When we...
Our designation was Clerk/Special Duties which was working as plotters in Fighter Command operations and...
My father was a Merchant Navy officer who was captured and interned by the Japanese at the outbreak of...
I get over there and asked a couple of soldiers where the camps were,they told me to go down this road to...
Yet the bliss of sleep's oblivion tarried long upon it's way while the bed bugs left their havens...
I have also lots of questions for Chepstow, most good ones, because we were treated like human beings. I...
The men in this camp were sorted into working parties and my father found himself being sent to camp E586,...
During the war, the local Thai population and Allied prisoners were looking for ways and means of putting...
I was the bomb–aimer in a Halifax shot down by a German night fighter over Berlin. The Germans had...
Tommy Wadsworth served with the RAF and was captured by the Japanese. In one camp I was pounced on by one...
There were a few wealthy men in the Camps - these were the cigarette "Barons". Men who accumulated...
For instance, when German fighters attacked our fishing boats in the North Sea — legitimate enough, I...
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