Karenko POW Camp (花蓮戰俘營)

A monument erected in 2012 in front of the former site of the POW camp at Karenko. Karenko was the POW camp in Taiwan where Imperial Japan held the most senior Allied officers taken in the opening year of World War 2. These officers were separated from the men they led, starting in August 1942 with the arrival of US Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright and 178 others taken from the Philippines.…