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Amazing lost sketches of life inside Japanese PoW camp

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CWOJackson

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Astonishing drawings of British soldiers in brutal Japanese Prisoner of War camps have turned up nearly 70 years later on TV's Antiques Roadshow.

The lost sketches showing the appalling conditions the men endured were drawn by artist soldier John Mennie who gave them to fellow PoW Eric Jennings. Mr Jennings never spoke about his wartime experiences and his family were stunned when they found the sketches stashed away in a shoe box after his death.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...er-takes-Antiques-Roadshow.html#ixzz1Y9mDv0fa
 
Thanks for sharing. I recently read Unbroken which further details Japanese atrocities on allied POWs during WWII. Highly recommended and eye-opening.

Regards,

LT1
 
1970LT1 said:
Thanks for sharing. I recently read Unbroken which further details Japanese atrocities on allied POWs during WWII. Highly recommended and eye-opening.

Regards,

LT1
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Louis Zaperini and Gregory "Pappy" Boyington were in the same Japanese POW camp.
 
My dad was briefly a POW in Burma, the treatment meated out was not good and had effects long after wars end.
 
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