China-Burma-India WWII

Far East prisoners of war, given the bare minimum of food and shelter, were often worked hard and were subject to frequent brutal assault, in part because of the Japanese conviction that surrender was disgraceful. These prisoners were liberated in Rangoon.


James M. Kim, a Chinese member of the Hong Kong Defence Force, left this poignant last testament on the wall of his cell in Stanley Prison before his execution in 1943.


A month after her liberation, British internee Wendy Rossini shows the daily ration of rice and stew given to all five occupants of her room in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.