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Once in Takao the deprivation continued as the Japanese celebrated their New Year holiday for four days and left the POWs to fend for themselves during that time.
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In 1946 the American Graves Recovery Team exhumed the bodies buried in Takao (Kaohsiung) and they were later re-interred in the US National War Cemetery in Hawaii.
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On November 12, 1942 the American POWs were loaded on trains and sent back to Takao where they boarded a ship called the Dai Nichi
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The aircraft arrived over Takao Port an hour before noon and began making “dives from east to west.”
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His life ended at age 42 on the upper platform within the No. 2 hold of the Japanese freighter Enoura Maru in the port of Takao, Formosa.
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In 1946 the American Graves Recovery Team exhumed the bodies of the men who were buried at Takao following the bombing of the Enoura Maru, and they were later re-interred in the US National War Cemetery in Hawaii.
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On the 21st as it headed for Takao Formosa the convoy was attacked by American carrier aircraft about 80 miles north of Corregidor.
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After another re-organization, convoy MI-08 with two ships carrying POWs for a total of 19 vessels, sailed from Manila on July 23 and reached Takao, Formosa on July 27.
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Honour Roll re-vamped, Inrin Temporary Camp names added, Inrin Camp names revised and names added for Takao Camp.
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There had also been 34 British and Dutch POWs on board the Enoura Maru, but the day before the bombing they had been taken off the ship and sent to Heito Camp east of Takao.
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