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Board for one of my current writing projects: A true story based on my grandmother's secret war diaries. As a young mother she was held captive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during WWII after her husband was taken to work on the Burma railway. Historical Fiction

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Melanie Claire Morton

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.. Dutch East Indies): Japanese Internment of Dutch Civilians (1942-45

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Nederlands Indië

Eerste foto's ooit van executies Nederlands leger in Indië

12.07.10. Eerste foto's ooit van executies Nederlands leger in Indië. Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis zijn foto's opgedoken van executies die zeer waarschijnlijk zijn uitgevoerd door het Nederlandse leger tijdens de politionele acties in voormalig Nederlands-Indië. De foto's komen uit het privéalbum van een soldaat die diende als dienstplichtige in Nederlands-Indië.

an old poster with the words chaos in nederlandsch - inde on it

Wanneer door chaos in Nederlandsch-Indië...

Chaos in Nederlandsch-Indië

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old city of batavia jakarta indonesia

an old advertisement for women's shoes from the 1950's, showing different styles

DJANGAN LOEPA SPATOE BATA, Bermatjem Model Boeat Roepa2 Kaperloean (Bata Shoes)

Bata Shoes old advertisement in Indonesia.

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Map of Tjideng Internment Camp

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Tjideng in Java

Indonesian Independence

Wwii Uniforms

Ww2 Photos

Bataan

Dutch East Indies troops on parade sometime before the Japanese invasion of Dec1941/Jan 1942

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Sisal in Dutch East Indies

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World War II: The Pacific Islands

Para-frag bombs fall toward a camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21, "Sally", during an attack by the US Army Fifth Air Force against Old Namlea airport on Buru Island, Dutch East Indies, on October 15, 1944. A few seconds after this picture was taken the aircraft was engulfed in flames. The design of the para-frag bomb enabled low flying bombing attacks to be carried out with higher accuracy. (AP Photo)

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Comfort Women: Untold Stories Of Wartime Abuse

Heartbreaking // from NPR: "Of the many horrors suffered by both sides during World War II, the existence of "comfort stations" is one of the most unsettling: Organized by the Japanese military in occupied countries, these were locations where women were forced into prostitution to "comfort" military personnel."

Olympic Rings of Fear: Japan's Air Raid Angst (1938) At some point early in the previous century, island nations particularly were gripped with air raid angst. The relatively new threat of airborne destruction was especially poignant for countries that for centuries were able, for defense purposes, to profit from their aquatic isolation – countries like Britain or Japan. It seems the Japanese were already holding air raid drills as early as the 1920s, and tried harder than other nations to . Ww2 Propaganda, Japanese Posters, Ww2 Posters, Imperial Japan, Olympic Rings, Japanese Poster, Propaganda Posters, Book Projects

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Olympic Rings of Fear: Japan's Air Raid Angst (1938) At some point early in the previous century, island nations particularly were gripped with air raid angst. The relatively new threat of airborne destruction was especially poignant for countries that for centuries were able, for defense purposes, to profit from their aquatic isolation – countries like Britain or Japan. It seems the Japanese were already holding air raid drills as early as the 1920s, and tried harder than other nations to .