Between 1942 and 1943 Colonel James C. Hughes was prisoner number 56 at Karenko Camp in Taiwan. Open from August 17,1942 to June 6,1943 the camp was home to high-ranking U.S. officers who were captured in the Pacific during World War II.
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
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