Postal History of American Prisoners of War: World War II, Korea, Vietnam

Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Prisoner of War 2. The International Red Cross 3. Mail Regulations, Germany 4. Prisoner-of-War Camps: Germany 5. Americans in Italian Camps 6. POW Camps – Remainder of Europe 7. Japanese POW Camps 8. Prisoner-of-War Camps in the Philippines 9. Japanese Camps in the Home Islands 10. Japanese Prison Camps in Burma and China 11. Japanese Camps in Manchuria, Korea and Elsewhere 12. The Korean War 13. The Vietnam War Appendix 1: U.S. Garrison Strength in the Pacific Appendix 2: Prisoner, Mail Flow Charts Bibliography Acknowledgments A Word About the American Philatelic Society

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