Phi Quoc has a good prison museum. The island had lots of resistance fighters. The museum has a tiger cage and a guillotine. And lots of torture instruments and photos and x rays of big nails driven into knees and stuff like that.
The Japanese officer who planned the conquest of Malaya flew in a Dinah reconissance plane from the island over Malaya and found all the British air strips and so on.
Cambodia circa WW2
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Are they luxurious french suits, and good old British pith helmets?Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:09 pmYou won't find many Cambodians old enough to remember much about that period, which wasn't hugely eventful anyway compared to subsequent decades. The Vichy French fought a war with Thailand at the start of the war (and lost the western provinces again till 1946), and went into an alliance with the Japanese which allowed them free movement through the territory and permission to set up garrisons. However in 1945 the Japanese interred all the French military/ police and officials and declared an Independent/ Puppet state which didn't last long. The allies bombed Phnom Penh in 1945, I have a document about it I'll try to dig out. It lists all the targets and has maps. Some would be familiar, such as the power station near the Old Stadium, the present-day Coca Cola factory on NR5 which was being used to produce ethanol (as the Japanese were having problems with their oil supplies), the railway station and the port, some rail junctions etc. Psah Thmei was hit during these raids and the dome was badly damaged and had to be rebuilt. I think some bombs also landed on the palace.
This guy remembered WWII but the article is 20 years old:
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... s-red-foot
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Good old French pith helmet in the middle, Japanese sun hats on the right. Pretty much all the colonial powers used pith helmets, they were originally a Spanish invention.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I still have what I think is the only surviving Japanese occupation flag (besides one in a museum in Japan) red background 5 squares in a dice pattern with the outer 4 aware linked by a thin line. Pretty much a top down view of ankor wat.
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Interesting. Where did you find that?
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That's very interesting, it's so rare to come across old artifacts in Cambodia unless they are made of stone.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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