An American plane dropping food and clothing in ‘barrel bombs’ on Weixian (Weihsien) Civilian Assembly Centre, Weifang

An American plane dropping food and clothing in ‘barrel bombs’ on Weixian (Weihsien) Civilian Assembly Centre, Weifang

Collection

Vinden, Gilbert

Identifier

GV-s17

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: GV-s17. This photograph would most probably have been taken between 17 August 1945 and around the end of September 1945. The Wei-Hsien (Weihsien, Weixian) internment camp had previously been a large American Presbyterian mission compound known by the Chinese name of 'Courtyard of the Happy Way' (乐道院). See Wikipedia. See GV-s15.

Caption in album or on mount

Watch your heads / food, clothes will be dropped! / NB. Electrified Barbed Wire.

Location

Weifang

Estimated Date

August-September 1945

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph