Allied Prisoners of War
Allied Prisoners of War
This section houses imagery of Allied Prisoners of War upon the Allies reaching Japan in late August 1945. Suffering years of captivity, malnutrition, and poor treatment, freedom finally came to the prisoners, though many of their fellow servicemen in captivity perished before the war's end. Many of the Allied servicemen travelled to Japan, and other outlying regions in inhumane conditions onboard Japanese "hell ships", cramped merchant ships sometimes sunk, unkowningly, by U.S. Navy submarines.
Image: 80-G-490445: Allied Prisoners of War, Omori Camp, Yokohama, Japan, August 29, 1945. The gaunt prisoners cheer from being rescued. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collection of the National Archives.
