GARRETT TYPE 2a POW CARD

This is Garrett Type 2a POW Card with his description in manuscript. Type 2 modified at after printing with the added French red handstamped "Sce DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE" which "signifies Japan's belated recognition of the conditions of the Geneva Convention concerning prisoner of war mail through the International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland."

Eugene A. Garrett A POSTAL HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE
OCCUPATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1942-1945, pp 216-217.