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SG WW2 POW sketches

Post by JR8 » Sun, 18 Sep 2011 6:22 am

I thought this illustrated article might be of interest to those with an interest in the WW2 POW period.

Gosh, how quickly we forget.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ealed.html
'Amazing lost sketches of life inside Japanese PoW camp discovered in a shoe box by British war veteran's stunned family - and now they're going on the Antiques Roadshow'
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Just in case:
Please don't turn this thread into some kind of flame-fest. After all, that would only demonstrate we have not learned from the subject historical mistakes
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Post by Calmday » Sun, 18 Sep 2011 7:47 am

Amazing. Thanks for the link.

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Post by ksl » Sun, 18 Sep 2011 1:54 pm

Maybe some copy for Changi museum :-| Interesting stuff, there are real names to those faces!

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Post by ecureilx » Sun, 18 Sep 2011 3:32 pm

really touching .. to say the least ..

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