Looking for Japanese POW "Hell Ship" illustration

World War II Japanese Military
#1

My grandfather was a POW in the Far East during World War II. In January 1943, he was sent with about 1,000 other Dutch POWs from Batavia to Singapore aboard the Usu Maru.

I am working on a blog entry about this portion of his journey to the Burma Railway, and I’d like to illustrate the chapter with one or both of the following images:

(1) A photo or painting of the Usu Maru (or same class of ship; I don’t know the class);

(2) A drawing of POWs in the hold of a hell ship (I’ve seen at least one sketch on the Internet, but haven’t been able to find it).

Can anyone help? Thanks!

  • Robin
#2

Not quite what you’re looking for, but these might help a bit. http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/photos.htm
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/junyopg1.html

I’ve seen a sketch of prisoners in a hold somewhere, too, but I can’t recall where except that I think it was in a book on POWs, most probably Australian POWs.