Los Baños
Internment Camp #2
Los Baños,
Laguna Province
1944 APRIL
21: LYHAM ST. ANNES, ENGLAND to LOS BANOS, LAGUNA
Civilian internee
Prisoner of War Postal Card taking the following route to the Philippines:
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Directed to General
Post Office, London, where is was checked;
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Flown to Teheran,
3,000 miles away;
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Carried by rail
to Moscow, 1,600 miles away;
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Transferred to
Trans-Siberian railway to China care of Russian Guards, 5,413 miles way;
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Then by Trans-Manchurian
rail to Fusan, Japanese Korea, some 1,500 miles away;
The card now in
Japanese hands, sent by ship to Tokyo and then to the Philippines.
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