POW Rosters

Part I - Hellship Rosters

Arisan Maru Roster by Bill Bowen
    The Arisan Maru was torpedoed by USS Shark on October 24, 1944 about 225 miles east of Hong Kong.  It was carrying 1,800 POWs at the time.  Only nine POWs survived and one of those died within the next two weeks.  Bill's father, Capt. William E. Bowen, was one of the POWs that died on the Arisan Maru.

Oryoku Maru Roster by Jim Erickson
Link #1 Oryoku Maru - recommended for use only by those with high-speed internet connections.  This file is in chart form to provide easier reading, but the drawback is that it is very large and much slower loading.
Link #2 Oryoku in CSV - recommended for those with dial-up connections.  It is a much smaller file and loads faster, but the CSV (Comma Separated Values) format is not as easy to read.
    The "Hellship" Oryoku Maru left Manila late on December 13, 1944 carrying 1,619 POWs in its cargo holds.  US Navy aircraft from the USS Hornet attacked the Oryoku Maru many times on December 14th as it moved north along the western coast of Bataan and they returned to finish the job on December 15th when the ship was in Subic Bay near Olongapo.  After the surviving POWs were allowed to jump overboard and swim to shore, the Oryoku Maru sank.  The ordeal of the surviving POWs continued through a Hellship voyage on the Enoura Maru and Brazil Maru from Luzon to Takao Harbor, Formosa (Taiwan now); bombing of the Enoura Maru at Takao on January 9, 1945 (again by aircraft from the USS Hornet) after all survivors had been consolidated on that ship and a final voyage from Takao to Moji, Japan aboard the Brazil Maru for the survivors of the Enoura Maru bombing.  About 550 POWs survived to reach Japan, but many of those died soon after arrival in Moji.  Jim Erickson has done a fantastic job of researching and compiling data concerning these POWs that left Manila on December 13, 1944 aboard the Oryoku Maru.  The file is very large, so be patient as you open it. Also, the chart containing the data on each POW is wide - be sure to scroll right to see all the columns of data.

Shinyo Maru Roster by Jim Erickson
    The Shinyo Maru was torpedoed by USS Paddle on September 7, 1944 of the northwest coast of Mindanao.  It was carrying 750 POWs that had been working at the Lasang Airfield on Mindanao after the main group of POWs from Davao Penal Colony had been moved to Luzon.  Only 82 POWs survived.  They were helped by Filipinos to join guerrillas and later they were evacuated on the submarine, USS Narwhal.  Jim's father, Maj. Albert W. Erickson, survived the Oryoku Maru/Enoura Maru/Brazil Maru series of Hellship voyages and was liberated at Mukden.

Part II - POW Camp Rosters

Mansell - This link goes to the "LIST OF ALL JAPANESE PW CAMPS" page of Roger Mansell's "Center for Research, Allied POWS Under the Japanese" web site.  POW camp names that are shown in blue and underlined are links to additional information about that camp and many include POW rosters.  As the introduction states, the site is updated often, so check again later if you do not find what you want.

Fukuoka #17, Omuta - This page is from Linda Dahl's excellent "Japanese WW II POW Camp Fukuoka #17" web site.

Palawan Massacre Roster by Lorna Nielsen Murray
    On December 14, 1944 the Japanese commander of POWs working on an airfield on Palawan Island received a message that an American convoy was southeast of Palawan and headed toward that island.  He ordered all POWs returned to camp.  Then the POWs were herded in to their air raid shelters, gasoline was poured into each end of the shelters and the gasoline was ignited.  When POWs tried to escape, Japanese guards shot at them with machine guns and rifles.  Some POWs managed to get to a seaside cliff and jump over.  Japanese guards managed to kill some of the escapees; however, eleven men were able to swim across the bay and join guerrillas.  The guerrilla leader contacted American forces and a U.S. Navy Catalina picked up the eleven survivors.  Lorna's father, Pfc. Eugene Nielsen, was one of the survivors.  An account of the massacre is on pages 212-215 of Surrender and Survival: The Experiences of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945 by E. Bartlett Kerr.

Taiwan POWs - This page is part of Michael Hurst's "Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society" web site.  During World War II Taiwan was named Formosa.
 

Part III - Unit Rosters

7th Material Squadron - This link goes to the roster page of the 7th Material Squadron, 19th Bomb. Gp. (H) site.

59th Coast Artillery Regiment - This is a copy of the March 31, 1942 Monthly Personnel Roster Provided by Al McGrew.

192nd Tank Battalion - This Bataan Commemorative Research Project was constructed by students of Proviso East High School, IL.

200th & 515th CA Regiments (AA) - This link goes to the "Names" page of the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexico web site.

Guam Rosters - This link goes to Roger Mansell's "Center for Research, Allied POWS Under the Japanese" web site.

North China Marines - This is a sub-page of the North China Marines web site.

Submarine POWs - This site contains a list of submarine crewmen that became POWs.

USS Wake - This link goes to Roger Mansell's "Center for Research, Allied POWS Under the Japanese" web site.