A drawing of the POW camp done by one of the POWs
Hoten Camp Map
The Meji Seika Factory at Mukden where some of the POWs worked.
Mukden Factory
A photo of the Hoten Camp Cemetery . The bodies of those who died during the winter were stored until the ground had thawed enough to be buried. It appears B-29s were also captured in the photo.
Mukden Cemetery 1
Another picture of the Hoten Camp Cemetery taken from a different angle.
Mukden POW Camp Cemetery
Hoten Camp Barracks
Mukden Barracks
Pow Bunks inside a barracks at Hoten Camp, Mukden
Mukden Bunks
The POWs are shown receiving the news that Japan had surrendered
Mukden Surrender Announcement
B-29 dropping food to former POWs at Mukden
Food Drop Mukden
A photo of Hoten camp, Mukden, Manchuria, taken from a B-29 after the war. The plane was most likely on a food drop. The camp is to the center on the left side of the photo.
John Minier, Russian soldier, and John Anderson, from California, pose for this photo at Mukden, Manchuria – Courtesy of Minier family
Minier Liberated
The former guards at Mukden in formation.
Mukden Former Guards
POW Barracks at Hoten Camp
Mukden Building
According to available information, the POWs in this photo were are survivors of the Bataan Death March.
Mukden POWs
Mukden Freed POWs 1
Freed Mukden POWs 4
Mukden Christmas Card
Mukden Christmas Card
Front of the Mukden Christmas POW Newsletter 1944 – Courtesy of Vince Roberts. His father, Victor Roberts, was a POW there.
Dad’s POW Christmas Newsletter 1944
The second page of the Christmas 1944 Newsletter from Mukden, Manchuria – Courtesy of Vince Roberts. His father, Victor Roberts, was a POW there.