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Ships from hell Japanese war crimes on the high seas

More than 140,000 Caucasian PoWs fell to the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy in the Second World War. Many of these men were shipped to the Japanese main islands for slave labour, in seaborne transports crammed with PoWs in their airless holds, and stricken with disease. Countless hundreds of Allied...

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Main Author: Lamont-Brown, Raymond (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gloucestershire, UK Sutton Publishing 2002
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Japan
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, Japanese
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Table of Contents:
  • Early shipments of the damned
  • Workers for the divine emperor
  • Kwai PoWs survive hell at sea
  • A quartet of naval massacres
  • Sensuikan targets: the killer submarines
  • Death by surface raider
  • The last hellship transports, 1944-5
  • Japanese navy involvement in biological warfare
  • The Japanese navy and the comfort women
  • Kendari: Tokkeitai killing fields
  • Epilogue: Betrayal of the damned
  • Appendix: Known Japanese hellships, 1942-5
  • Memorials to the war dead: Japanese naval atrocities on land and sea.

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