Beginning of the End

Colonel Malcolm Fortier’s depiction of supplies dropping into a field near Camp Hoten, Manchuria where he and Colonel James C. Hughes were held as prisoners of war. American parachute troops brought word of Japanese surrender and Russian soldiers arrived two days later to liberate the camp.

Hughes, a Kansan, is among a select number of soldiers who served in a major military expedition as well as two world wars. As a photographer took more than 600 images documenting his time at the Mexican border in 1916 and in Europe during 1919. 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