Hello!
OK, start this way:
They are not beautiful and well dressed enought to be actresses in tour.
So they should leave their homes - to go to work (e.g. special knowledge) or as refugees.
They are happy so the refugee status is rejected.
so my gusess:
New Zealand workers before boarding to go to work in England :rolleyes:
Regards:
TGR
They’re not New Zealanders and they’re not going to England, but you’re correct that they’re soon going on a longish journey.
They’re going in the opposite direction, but not from England
Still no clue…
Let them be Jewish refugees from Poland who got help with Japanese transit VISA from Consul-General Chiune Sugihara in 1940.
No.
They’re not Jewish refugees.
They’re not refugees of any sort.
They’re not from Poland. Or anywhere in Europe.
They don’t need a Japanese visa. The Japanese didn’t give them visas to start with. The Japanese just transported them.
Now it is clear!
They are a top secret male special operatives who undertook gender correction. Send to USA by Japanese after the Balloon bombing program failed… Rings a bell?
Nope, can’t hear any bells. 
The location of the photograph has already been mentioned, but nobody has picked it up yet.
The women weren’t being sent anywhere by the Japanese when the photograph was taken, but they had been sent places by the Japanese before.
A group of Christian missionaries from New Guinea (or thereabouts) internet by Jepanese.
Egorka, You’re getting very close, but you need to give a bit more detail.
Not missionaries, Christian or otherwise.
Thereabouts, with a New in the title but not New Guinea.
The didn’t have the internet then.
Not quite. Only civilians are interned.
You’ve gone way too far east, and way, way into the deep south when all you had to do was go a little bit east “thereabouts” from New Guinea.
NZ was ruled out at #362.
It’s another New. Once German, but we changed that in one of the earliest battles, and one of the few complete victories over Germany, in WWI. And Australia got to keep it for a while.
But you’re on track with women who were in an army, but they weren’t in a branch of the service called a Corps like the NZWAAC. Unlike the Kiwis they did have Royal in the title of their branch of the army.
I’ve got it!
They were The Rabaul Nurses that were taken POW by the Japanese and transported to Japan.
The first photo was taken in Manilla in September1945, after their ordeal was over.
100% correct.
Well done.
Your turn.
(Commiserations to Egorka for getting so near, yet so far. 
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Congratulations my friend!
This was a very challenging quiz!
It is so bad to come here today too late
Anyway, pls. help me!
I have seen a FILM about a quite similar story, WWII FEMALE prisoners of war (???) or injured persons (???) in a Japanese camp, where the ladies had some problems with the camp commander. Famous actresses, but i really do not remember more.
Do you know anything about it (title, etc…)
I am thinking about this film from the moment our friend submitted the photos…
Thanks a lot
TGR
A film or a TV series?
There was a quite good TV series called Tenko in the 1980s which dealt with women interned in a Japanese camp in the Pacific.
The only film I can think of is Paradise Road, which was from the late 1990s.
Paradise Road
THAATS IT!!!
Thanx a lot!!!
huhhh U got it!
:lol:
TGR
wingsofwrath you still with us ??
If you want to get this thread moving again, send him a PM asking him if he will post within 24 hours.
If you don’t hear from him in 24 hours, you can post the next quiz.
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I tried to get in touch with wingsofwrath but no reply back, so with the wave of RS’s mod powers I post a new Where and When.
I don’t have a clue yet but there’s something about the right statue…:shock:…or are my eyes fooling me?
I would have expected Nick or me rather than you to pick up that apparent vulgarity.
It would appear that the statue is unimpressed by the parade as it is not saluting.
