British P.O.W.'s in Nagasaki

[10ClarionSt]

Can anyone confirm that a party of British P.O.W.'s were working in Nagasaki when the atom bomb was dropped? And they all survived to tell the tale? I think I remember reading this in one of the Sunday broadsheets quite a few years ago. Is my memory playing tricks on me? 

[Chessman]

I recently watched a programme about the Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, and they mentioned it, it was about two weeks ago, unfortunately I can't remember what it was called, BBC1, maybe you can trace it.

[Peter Pedant]

I think they were working as slave labourers in the Mitsubishi Naval yards.

and some survived. There are associations of FEPOWs and they might be able to help - and you'd better not delay !

If you really want to make your flesh creep, research the experiments done on British and American POWs at the germ warfare lab in Manchuria at Harbin. None of them survived except the records....

[cherrybomb]

I was watching a story about Hiroshima on the chanel 4 news tonight and they were interviewing an 87 yr old man who was a P.O.W they were sent to work in the mines (didn't catch what they were mining for) so were underground when the bomb was dropped,and they thought that an earthquake was happening. He said that what they saw when they got above ground is still as clear today as it was 60yrs ago.