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    Geoje-do POW camp (Korean: 거제도 포로수용소/巨濟島 捕虜收容所, Chinese: 巨济岛战俘营) was a prisoner of war camp located on Geoje island at the southernmost part of Gyeongsangnam-do...
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    locations is most easily done using a tourist map. Geoje POW Camp (거제도포로수용소) was a prisoner of war detention camp for captured North Koreans established during...
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    sympathizers. Meredith Victory had to travel another 50 miles (80 km) to Geoje Island before it could debark its passengers on December 26. Among the passengers...
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  • (Korean: 고현동) is a dong (neighborhood) in Geoje, South Korea.[citation needed] It contains the Geoje POW Camp and Gohyeon fortress.[citation needed] Official...
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    Geojedo (redirect from Geoje-do)
    Korean history took place at Chilcheon, Geoje (칠천량해전). During the Korean War, UN Forces established the Geoje POW Camp in 1951 for captured North Koreans....
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    the Geoje POW Camp (aka. Koje Pow Camp during the Korean War) where prisoners had forcibly seized and held Brigadier General Francis Dodd, camp commandant...
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    prisoner rebellion at the Geoje POW Camp, where prisoners had forcibly seized and held Brigadier General Francis Dodd, camp commandant, hostage for four...
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    Painting Village Jinju — Jinjuseong, National Jinju Museum Geoje — Historic Park of Geoje POW Camp, Sinseondae Namhae — Gacheon Daerangi Village, Namhae German...
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    later during the Xhosa Wars Geojedo, active during the Korean War; Geoje POW camp Arwad, prison under French colonial rule Green Island, prison during...
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  • flashbacks back to the dark days of the Korean War and the infamous Geoje POW Camp on Geoje Island leads Oh to Han, a former North Korean soldier living in...
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    Hungnam Evacuation memorial at Geoje POW camp....
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    it guarded the Geoje POW Camp. The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on 27 July, and the regiment oversaw POW exchanges at the camp. After the end...
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  • against seeking reparations. Chinese sources claim at Geoje prison camp on Geoje Island, Chinese POWs experienced anti-communist lecturing and missionary...
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    command of the Geoje POW camp on Koje Island (currently Geojedo or Geoje Island) island after a U.S. soldier had been killed and 138 POWs wounded when the...
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    May 25 – Korean War: Canadian troops are dispatched to the troubled Geoje POW Camp July 16 – Quebec election: Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale wins a...
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  • beggar's body. Even during Korean War, when Lee was imprisoned in the Geoje POW camp after arriving in South Korea, he started teaching artistic anatomy...
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    suppressing the rebellion of 80,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners at the Geoje POW camp. Some 40 prisoners were killed during the uprising which had been fomented...
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    on the Japan Logistical Command. As such, he was responsible for the Geoje POW camp, where over 130,000 Korean and 20,000 Chinese prisoners were held. After...
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  • the captors. He is then taken to the island of Geoje, which was cleared of most civilians to house POWs captured by the South Korean military. Yu initially...
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  • vessels. From Gadeok, Won retreated north and west into the strait between Geoje and the island of Chilchon, Chilchonnyang. Won Gyun then retired to his...
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    the Chinese prisoners of war held in the Geoje prison camp in South Korea, with photographs showing Chinese POWs who had anti-Communist slogans forcibly...
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  • Peace Film Festival on August 18, 2019. The story takes place in Geoje prison camp during the Korean War in 1951. Ro Ki-soo (Doh Kyung-soo), a rebellious...
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    July 23. The augmented flotilla of 91 ships then began circumnavigating Geoje Island, bound for Gadeok Island, but scouting vessels detected 50 Japanese...
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    (1988), "The Imjin War", Military Review, 68 (2): 74–82 Ha, Tae-hung; Sohn, Pow-key (1977), 'Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, Yonsei University...
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