Japanese Military fieldpost reply card Bu.F3 from occupied Dutch Timor (48th Division, code UMI, Unit 7015 thought to be the 109th Line of Communication Hospital) to Kyoto. Censor chop Maluyama. Text says there is quite some breeze in the mornings and it is cool in the evenings. There is a lot of meat and vegetables

Japanese Military fieldpost reply card Bu.F3 from occupied Dutch New Guinea (North Australia Expeditionary Force, Carp Unit 5170) to Tokyo. Unlisted censor mark with chop Yamazumi and Kasuya. Text includes he heard about the fierce battle at Leite and the bombing raid on Tokyo. He hopes all are well and writes he received a letter saying his uncle had passed away. Also writes he sent his salary to his wife on January 20 and hopes they receive this card before April 12th. Card was written begin 1944. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military. Lesser Soenda Islands. Cover (roughly opened envelope including letter) from the Navy headquarters at Singaradja, Bali, sent by field post. Rare

Japanese Military. Celebes. Anchor and cherry blossom postcard Bu.283b used as field postcard, sent from Se 45 (Makasser), Se 55 (Kenkyo Jo Makasser Research Station) to Kyoto, received 13 Dec 1944. Censored by Azuma, cancelled with the Gunji Yubin field postmark. Unusual

Field postcard from a Heiho to his family in Bogor, Java. The Heiho (Indonesian soldier in Japanese Army) was part of Intendance Duty unit 11970 which performed duty on Flores, Soemba and Soembawa in 1943-44. The meaning of the pink mark also sometimes seen on stamps from the Moluccas is still unknown

POW. Env. Bu.PW39 uit 1944 van Luitenant-Generaal Hein ter Poorten, ex commandant van het KNIL die op 8 maart 1942 de capitulatie tekende, krijgsgevangen in het Karenko-kamp (´generaalskamp´) in Taiwan, naar zijn dochter J.M. ter Poorten p/a RK-ziekenhuis in Den Haag. Japanse stempels voor krijgsgevangenenpost, censuur, ´Service Des/Prisonniers De Guerre´ en Duits censuurstempel Ag in cirkel. Unieke envelop met grote posthistorische en historische betekenis. Tentoonstellingsstuk. Ex Hiegentlich POW. Cover Bu.PW39 written by lieutenant general Hein ter Poorten, ex Commander in Chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, from the Karenko Camp in Taiwan (so-called ´Generals Camp´) to his daughter in The Hague, showing Japanese, international and German censor marks. Exhibition item of great philatelic and historical value

POW. Portvrij verz. bk. uit Utrecht 2-8-1943 door een moeder aan haar zoons in Java, over Berlijn, daar gecensureerd en gest. ´Kriegsgefangenenpost.´, ook in Egypte gecensureerd (lichtviolet censuurstempel) en via het Japanse Rode Kruis in Tokio, voorzien van POW-nummer 6555 en stempel ´Jawa Hon´ (= Java Algemeen), Bu.JC53b, omcirkeld, gecensureerd (censor Umegaki, zie Tett fig.2-12-103). POW. Dutch postcard written at Utrecht on Aug 2nd, 1943, from a mother to her sons somewhere on Java, via Berlin and the Japanese Red Cross at Tokio, with German, Egyptian and Japanese censors. Interesting route

POW. Ned. RK-bijsluiter voor correspondentie met burgergeïnterneerden, uit de tijd dat alleen nog RK-formulieren waren toegelaten. POW. Dutch Red Cross form to be used for correspondence with civilian internees, from the period that only Red Cross forms were allowed

POW. American lettersheet bearing 6c air mail from Rock Falls, Illinois, 19 Sep 1944 to a POW in Camp No. 1, Tokyo, with American and Japanese censors, and received on 21 Mch 1945

POW. Special postcard from Blackburn Lancashire 15 Oct 1944 to a POW in Branch Camp No. 1, Tokyo, with British and Japanese censors

POW. Lettersheet from Llandrindod Wells 2 Dec 1943 to a POW in the 3rd Branch Camp in Taiwan, with British and Japanese censors

POW. Card Bu.PW21 from Moulmein, Burma, from a husband to his wife in the Poeloe Brayan camp near Medan, with censors Furyo Yubin and from a Thai camp, chop Naito

POW. Kaart Bu.PW25 geschreven op 4-11-1943 in het Hakodate Camp 2 in Japan door een soldaat die o.a. schrijft: ´We have hoped to see each other in ´41. Now I am already a year in Japan´. Verz. naar familie in Amersfoort. Japanse en Duitse censuren als ook ´Sce Des Prisonniers de Guerre´. Zeldzaam. POW card Bu.PW25 written on Nov 4th, 1943, to family in Amersfoort, showing Japanese and German censor marks. Rare

POW. Kaart Bu.29 geschreven in juni 1945 in het Zentsuzi POW Kamp in Japan naar Voorburg. Ex Hiegentlich POW card Bu.29 written in June 1945, sent from the Zentsuzi POW Camp in Japan to Voorburg

POW. Envelop Bu.PW32 met erbij behorende deels voorbedrukte brief geschreven op 5-9-1944 in een POW kamp in Tokio, naar Den Haag met Japanse censuurstempels en Britse censuurstrook met violet veldpoststempel. Ex Hiegentlich POW envelope Bu.PW32 including original partly printed letter written on Sep 5th, 1944, in a POW camp in Tokio, to The Hague, showing Japanese censors and British censor label and in violet a field postmark

POW. Card Bu.PW40 written on 25 Dec 1944 in a camp in Thailand, sent to Djakarta showing cachet ´No Record...´ Bu.JC53g