POW. Malaya. POW card (no location designation) with printed message on reverse to Kilpauk, Madras, India 21 Nov 1943 (Jacobs MA1). Very rare

POW. Malaya. Biographical data form required of British Prisoners of War for Japanese records (Jacobs MA31). Rare document which we have not seen before

POW. Malaya. Pledge not to escape, completion coerced especially from Australian Prisoners of War (Jacobs MA32). Rare and bizarre document which we have not seen before

POW. Manchukuo. POW card from a son in the Hoten Camp to his parents in Temple (USA), undated but sent before the Great Pacific War, showing censors from Japan, Germany and the USA. See: Norman Jacobs, Allied and Japanese POW, p.30

POW. Philippines. POW card from an American officer in the Military Prison Camp No. 2 with on the reverse printed sentences to make a choice, to Los Angeles showing Japanese and American censors (Jacobs P1)

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