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Hatfield

21 August 1944 During WWII, two Japanese prisoners captured on Sung Shan Hill by the Chinese when the Japanese were blasted out of their strong pill-boxes by 6000 pounds of dynamite set off under them. Wounded and dazed by the blast many prisoners asked to be killed when captured. Chinese insisted on treating them as prisoners of war. Photo by...
Indian Soldiers, who had been prisoners of the Japanese for two and a half years, and escaped when American B-25s bombed their captors into shelter at Mangshih (Mangshi), march into a Chinese town after working their way to Chinese lines. 29 September 1944. Photo by Pvt. C. H. Hatfield.