Hiroshima POWs -- National POW Museum, Andersonville NHS, Andersonville GA
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A plaque at the courtyard POW memorial at the National POW Museum, Andersonville NHS, Andersonville GA recalls the names of the Navy and Army POWs who died when the A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, where they were imprisoned
Waymark Code: WMWHZA
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2017
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The National POW museum is a fascinating place to visit, to learn about the nuances of who is and isn't a POW, the development of the moral imperatives of caring for prisoners which eventually found expression in the Geneva Convention. There are also many rooms of exhibits chronicling the places and experiences of people who served their country as prisoners of war.
As you leave the museum, you enter a courtyard with an arresting statue of a staggering starving POW, on an island creted by a small fountain that winds through he memorial like the Providence Spring did at Andersonville.
Along the walls are separate plaques dedicated to specific units with significant number of prisoners of war. This plaque is located on the eastern wall of the memorial, and reads as follows:
"[planes, a POW framed by barbed wire, and an atomic mushroom cloud]
In honor and memory of the US Army Air Force and U.S. Navy airmen who lost their lives while prisoners of war at Hiroshima, Japan, the day of the bomb - August 6, 1945.
-S/Sgt Charles O Baumgartner - USAAF
-2nd/Lt Durden Looper - USAAF
-2nd/Lt James M. Ryan - USAAF
-Sgt. Hugh H. Atkinson - USAAF
-Cpl. John A. Long, Jr. - USAAF
-S/Sgt. Buford J. Ellison - USAAF
-S/Sgt. Ralph J. Neal - USAAF
-LTJG Raymind G. Porter - USN
-A/3c Normand Roland Brissette - USN"
Property Permission: Public
Access instructions: Visit the National POW Museum
Access times: From: 9:30 AM To: 4:30 PM
Website for Waymark: [Web Link]
Location of waymark:
Andersonville National Cemetery National Prisoner of War Museum
496 Cemetery Road
Andersonville, GA
Commemoration: POWs who died at Hiroshima 06 Aug 1945
Date of Dedication: Not listed
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