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Post by Registrar on Sept 7, 2017 9:14:04 GMT 8
Sometimes we come across orphaned images which resonate more than usual, many made all the more curious by a lack of provenance. Where did they come from, who are they of? What's their story? This image came to me a while back courtesy of Bob Hudson, who didn't have any accompanying provenance with it. Lots of "orphan" images are floating around needing to be identified. I checked out tineye.com - a very handy resource for tracking down images - and found there was a copy of it at the Gettyimages.com website. For those unfamiliar, Getty are an image library which sells commercial licences to use the images for very significant sums of money. The image was captioned "Tragic Last Drink" and the accompanying background was that it was taken as at January 01, 1945 of "An American prisoner of the Japanese found where he died at the Davao Penal Colony, in the Philippines. He was trying to get a drink of water from a deep sink in the surgical section of the hospital when he died. He was one of 75 victims found at the camp when it as liberated." It's not my area of expertise, so is anyone familiar with it, and its origins?
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Post by Karl Welteke on Sept 7, 2017 9:45:21 GMT 8
Thank you Paul!
What a tragic picture and story!
This one is for the History Revisionists!
Thanks, I learned something new, indentifying pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 0:50:04 GMT 8
I believe that the date is correct (roughly), but it wasn't a POW skeleton. Talk about a sensationalist caption; it was probably a Filipino convict or else Filipino civilian. The last POWs were moved out of Dapecol on June 6, 1944. After the Japs abandoned Dapecol, civilians moved in and tried to make a go of it working the fields due to the food shortages in the Greater Davao area. I've never been able to get a straight answer as to what happened to the remainder of convicts (guessing they were sent to Iwahig or else the Japs issued a mass pardon). I think that the skeleton was all that was left of some poor Filipino who got sick and was left to die in the infirmary. The small party of Americans that showed up to recon the camp and snap photos stumbled upon him. Guessing they posed the skulls in the other photos in that series.
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