Archive for December 26, 2009

JAPANESE COPPER MINE – KINKASEKI WWII POW CAMP   Leave a comment

Locations of  13 POW camps are all over the island.  The prisoners would have known they were ‘somewhere in Japan’ but I wonder if any knew it was Formosa? Nearby was the copper mine where very weak and sick men slaved their lives away under worse than horrific conditions described at this web site: http://www.powtaiwan.org/The%20Camps/camps_detail.php?Kinkaseki-POW-Camp-1&name=Kinkaseki [...]

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