POW. Philippines. POW card from the Military Prison Camp No. 4 with on the reverse 3 sentences to make a choice, from an American private to Craddock, showing Japanese and American censors (Jacobs P5)

POW. Philippines. Internal mail. Envelope including internment order of 10 May 1943 with a Military Headquarters handstamp, from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp via Manila 1 May to Malate, South of Manila. According to the order ´the Japanese military in the Manila area in particular had a liberal - even indifferent but often at least contradictory - attitude toward the enemy alien civilian residents, interning some and not others.´ On the envelope Japanese censors (Jacobs P21). Rare document that has been preserved

POW. Philippines. Mimeographed Railway pass for a released Prisoner (Jacobs PPB). Very rare document

POW. Philippines. Authorized Christmas 1944 for greetings from the Santo Tomas Camp to the Los Banos Camp (Jacobs PG2)

POW. Soviet Union. Postcard (reply-paid card) from Japan to a Japanese Prisoner of War in the Soviet Union. This type was used during 1945-46 (Jacobs JSO12). Rare

POW. Taiwan. Three different types of POW cards all with two-line framed cachet ´Service Des/Prisonniers De Guerre´, one from 25 April 1944 to Bicester in England, another type from 22 May 1943 to Cork in Ireland and a third one from 20 Feb 1943 to Nebraska in the USA, all showing Japanese and/or British censor marks (Jacobs TA1, TA4 respectively TA2)

POW. Thailand. POW card with Garoeda emblem of Thailand, sent by a civilian internee on 14 March 1942 to a miss in St. Louis (USA), received 16 July 1943 (´Delayed on account of incomplete address.´). Very rare card (similar card Bu.PW41, RRR, sold for EUR 3,900 in 2003). See: Norman Jacobs, Allied and Japanese POW, p.53

POW. Thailand. Postcard type Dove and Helmet with additional printing and handstamp modifying it for POW use, from the POW Camp no. 12 to Welling in England showing Japanese and British censors (Jacobs TH11)

POW. Thailand. POW Camps in Indochina were administered as part of the Thai camp system. Cover from Saigon 7 Aug 1943 to the Mytho Prison (Jacobs TH-IC1). Rare!

POW. Netherlands Indies. Java. Postcard bearing 3½ cent Kreisler with deletion of country name and written Dai Nippon, from the Kesilir Colony via Bentjoeloek 5.6.03 to Soerabaja

POW. Netherlands Indies. Java. Envelope including letter from a mother written in Lawang on 2 Oct 1945 (´your last postcard was from May 1944 which I received in April 1945´ and ´I am so glad this nightmare is over´) and sent to her son through the Red Cross in Lawang to a POW Camp in Thailand. However, next to the Red Cross cachet is written ´vermist´ = missing

POW. Netherlands Indies. Java. POW envelope Bu.PW2 (repaired) from Major General van Rees to his wife in Bandoeng, received 25 Jan 1943. This POW envelopes were only for high ranking officers. General BDJ van Rees was old-inspector of Military Medicine Service of the KNIL. Extremely rare, only two recorded

POW. Netherlands Indies. Celebes. POW card Bu.PW9 from the Kampili Camp written on 13 May 1945 to family in Pare Pare, received in the Bolong Camp (Toradja region) on 24 July 1945

POW. Netherlands Indies. Celebes. POW card Bu.PW10 from Tomohon (North Celebes) written by a woman and sent to her aunt and uncle in Batavia

POW. Netherlands Indies. Burma. POW card Bu.PW22 from a camp in Moulmein, with on the reverse only a printed text with signature of the sender, to Galang in Sumatra´s East Coast, redirected to Brastagi. Extremely rare POW card (Bu.RRR)

POW. Netherlands Indies. Japan. POW card Bu.PW27a from a camp in Osaka to Malang, Java