Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. An aerial view of part of Koyagi Island showing the Fukuoka ...

Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. An aerial view of part of Koyagi Island showing the Fukuoka No 2 Prisoner of War Camp (lower left, the double hollow squares or figure-of-eight buildings). This camp held allied prisoners of war who all worked at the Kawanami Brothers shipyards. The shipyards employed about 60,000 workers including 1500 allied prisoners of war (POW). The POWs who worked in the shipyards comprised two groups. The first, of about 550 British, with some Australians, 500 Dutch and 100 Americans, arrived in 1942, embarking on the Asama Maru at Macassar on 1942-10-14, arriving at Nagasaki 1942-10-24. The other group of 198 Australians arrived 1944-09-09 after a 70 day voyage from Singapore on the Rashin Maru.

• Koyagi Island, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. An aerial view of Fukuoka No. 2 Prisoner of War Camp on ...