Author: MELIS, ED. (COMPILER), W.F. VAN WAMEL & TH. JANSEN (CO-OP.),
Title: Eresaltuut boven Massagraf. Junyo Maru, de-vergeten-scheepsramp. Orig. edn.
Description: S.L.[Nijmegen], Stichting Herdenking Junyo Maru-Sumatra, s.d. [..], 1985. Orig. illustrated wraps. 223pp. many ills. on plates and in text, incl. 2 plates depict. the Junyo Maru and the submarine H.M.S. Tradewind, with technical specifications, facsim. ills. of original documents, incl. the japanese attack-treaty, extensive name-register of perished members Royal Dutch East Indian Army, K.N.I.L., full-p. sketch-maps, chronologies A-D, list for further information, list of sources consulted, photo-credits, and list of organizations involved. A very detailed and well-documented publication commemmorating the torpedooing, by H.M.S. Tradewind, of the S.S. Junijo Maru, a japanese freighter, on 18th September 1944 near Bencoolen, with some 2200 P.O.W. (600 Europeans, 10th Bat., and 1600 Ambonese and Menadonese) under command by Lt.Cmdr. R.N.R. Upton, and some 4000 Javanese coolies (Romusha), causing a great number of losses, and the aftermath (:transportation of surviving men to various camps at Pakan Baru Railroad, Sumatra). Includes a description of H.M.S. Tradewind, (ex P 329) in english on pp. 202/202, as supplied by british Naval Historical Branche Ministry of Defence, London. Literature on the subject is very hard to find. Very good copy. Scarce.

Keywords: pacific war second world war japan junyo maru tradewind maritime pow p.o.w. disaster pakan baroe bencoolen sumatra railroad japanese camps commemmoration indonesia colonialism southeast asia