Camp Hoten liberation clipping

U.S. colonels at the liberation of Camp Hoten, Manchuria after the end of World War II. Colonel James C. Hughes (second from the right) wrote in his journal on August 20,1945 about seeing the Russian soldiers who would free him land in a nearby field. It was the end of over three years spent in captivity.

Hughes, a Kansan, is among a select number of soldiers who served in a major military expedition and two world wars. As a photographer he documented his time at the Mexican border in 1916 and in Europe in 1919 taking more than 600 images. As a Japanese prisoner of war in World War II, Hughes kept a daily diary and, upon liberation, brought home items from his imprisonment. He and his family donated most of these items to the Kansas Museum of History.

More information at: https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/james-clark-hughes/19881