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Reid was captured in Singapore and imprisoned in Taiwan.
He had been transferred to a second camp on the island and the blue crayon markings forwarded the letter.
Only about 4,500 Allied POWs where held on Taiwan.
I purchased this last night at a club auction.
Sent from a US POW also being held in Taiwan to Father Flanagan at Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska.
I assume that Paradise was a resident orphan there prior to his enlistment in 1939.
Paradise was an Army medic taken prisoner in the Philippines in early 1942.
The red and black Japanese stamps on the right roughly translate to Prisoner of War.
Under the red U.S. censor stamp is a smaller Japanese censor stamp.
He also served in Korean War, lived to be 95 and is buried in Arlingon National Cemetary.
More information can be found at http://www.powtaiwan.org/The%20Society/index.php.
Update:
After sending these scans to the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society I have some changes.
First, It seems the postcard to Father Flanagan from PFC Paradise is a fake. It is a facsimilie of the original card that was used to generate funds for Boys Town and Paradise after the war. It is of a glossy finished card stock not the thick rough paper found on the originals.
Second, the Reid cover is real but Reid had been transferred to Camp-O1D in Yokohama, Japan were prisoners worked as slave labor at Mitsubishi ship yards, not another camp in Taiwan. That explains the blue crayon markings. Reid survived the allied bombing of the shipyard and was returned home in 1945.
I will try not to put the cart before the horse the next time.
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While realizing the one may be a "fake" and so of little/no value to actual stamp collectors, this would be an interesting item to have in a collection and display "as an example" to people who are interested in the history of the period.
I find much of the "History of The Holocaust Stamp Album" I am trying to build seems to be of of greater interest to non-collector friends and groups who are unconcerned about what they deem "pedantic philatelist concerns" (they don't understand many of our collector's nuances) and are more interested in "cool insights into the topic of the War/Holocaust era". So I have even downloaded and included scans of interesting stamps (real and fake) that tell a story and can at least act as placeholders until I can obtain an actual copy.
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A cover sent by the South African Sapper's mother to her son held as a POW on Taiwan.
Reid was captured in Singapore and imprisoned in Taiwan.
He had been transferred to a second camp on the island and the blue crayon markings forwarded the letter.
Only about 4,500 Allied POWs where held on Taiwan.
I purchased this last night at a club auction.
Sent from a US POW also being held in Taiwan to Father Flanagan at Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska.
I assume that Paradise was a resident orphan there prior to his enlistment in 1939.
Paradise was an Army medic taken prisoner in the Philippines in early 1942.
The red and black Japanese stamps on the right roughly translate to Prisoner of War.
Under the red U.S. censor stamp is a smaller Japanese censor stamp.
He also served in Korean War, lived to be 95 and is buried in Arlingon National Cemetary.
More information can be found at http://www.powtaiwan.org/The%20Society/index.php.
Update:
After sending these scans to the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society I have some changes.
First, It seems the postcard to Father Flanagan from PFC Paradise is a fake. It is a facsimilie of the original card that was used to generate funds for Boys Town and Paradise after the war. It is of a glossy finished card stock not the thick rough paper found on the originals.
Second, the Reid cover is real but Reid had been transferred to Camp-O1D in Yokohama, Japan were prisoners worked as slave labor at Mitsubishi ship yards, not another camp in Taiwan. That explains the blue crayon markings. Reid survived the allied bombing of the shipyard and was returned home in 1945.
I will try not to put the cart before the horse the next time.
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11:35:02pm
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While realizing the one may be a "fake" and so of little/no value to actual stamp collectors, this would be an interesting item to have in a collection and display "as an example" to people who are interested in the history of the period.
I find much of the "History of The Holocaust Stamp Album" I am trying to build seems to be of of greater interest to non-collector friends and groups who are unconcerned about what they deem "pedantic philatelist concerns" (they don't understand many of our collector's nuances) and are more interested in "cool insights into the topic of the War/Holocaust era". So I have even downloaded and included scans of interesting stamps (real and fake) that tell a story and can at least act as placeholders until I can obtain an actual copy.
Dave.
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