Japan

A Child's War -Part 7

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

"A Child Remembers"

I was born 2 years before the war started and as a child I remember my Mother saying'I'm sorry son...

"I Know He Is Alive": POW in Japan

Mum continued with her stoical belief that George was alive and, six months after the second telegram, a...

'Yorkie's' War onboard HMS Indefatigable

When pushed to talk, mostly by his grandchildren who often said things like 'Granddad what did you do...

Typhoon In The China Seas

A formal letter dated 4.10.41 from A.G.Hard, the Government Representative on Board, states that a...

Experiences As A Japanese Prisoner-of-War 1941 - 1945

The Japanese forces captured Singapore during early 1942, and our ship was re-directed to Java, in the...

Fred's Journey, Part 3: After the Atom Bomb

After the Atom Bomb we sort of regrouped on what was left of our camp....

Fred's Journey, Part 4: Leaving the POW camp in Japan

However I managed to take a pair of Wies binoculars home, which my dad just gave to his old mate, a bookie!...

A Mother's Heartbreak

My elder brother Arthur, her firstborn, was born in January 1919 and although a normal baby was not exactly...

Hiroshima and the Japanese Surrender

The RFA ‘Dingledale’ was the first British ship to anchor in Tokyo Bay where we were allocated...

My Story (HMS Speaker)

MY STORY Freedom In 1945 I was a Petty Officer serving on the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Speaker with the...

Dad's Letter from Okinawa 1945

My dad, Charles Hladky, was on the AOG-36 Ontonagon which was a Mattawee Class Gasoline Tanker. This is an...

Growing up in The Royal Navy

We went in on the inland sea and realised afterwards that we were used as guinea pigs to test whether the...

Memories of the Merchant Navy

My uncle who was born in Ireland, joined the Merchant Navy when he was quite young... Each time he passed...

Japanese POW

I trained in England and was sent to the Western Desert before being posted to the Far East where I was...

Hiroshima after the Bomb

In January 1946, when I was in the occupying forces in Japan, two Americans who were going in the direction...

My Grandfather's Memories

I still remember the look of distaste on his face when he discussed the Japanese tactics while the British...

Preparing to Land in Japan

He was also working on a landing craft, shaped like a saucer, which was suitable to land troops and their...

I Was There

The following story can only be told if more photo's are included.This story shows History in the...

POW in Japan

During the second world war in a little place called long eaton lived a person who thought against the...

World War 2 in Japan

Then the Japanese invaded the country and he had to move to Japan and be away from his family... When he...

Prisioner of War Camp

Hazel Rutherford, Belford My husband was a prisoner of war in Japan during the war and he was released a...

Release from captivity:POW's in Japan

On September 1st 1945, after being at sea for 57 days, the destroyer on which I was serving,HMS Tenacious,...

Returning Home: My Father, Japanese POW

The first few years of my life were spent with my Mother and Grandparents as my father was a Japanese...

To Muriel, my wife

******* All this foreign climes exotic marvel, Its wondrous orchids, butterflies and birds, Can ever give...

The Bay of Japan

My brother, Bernard, was in the Royal Navy - He was ships company, a Petty Officer... He was in the Bay of...