MIA Charities & the New England Historic Genealogical Society

present a special program

The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp

August 4, 2010—6:00 pm

Join MIA Charities and NEHGS and Linda Goetz Holmes, a member
of MIA Charities, will speak about
special guests Linda Goetz Holmes and her latest book, Guests of the
Gunnery Sergeant Roy Weaver as we Emperor: The Secret History of
explore Japan’s Mukden POW Camp and Japan's Mukden POW Camp, which
the life of USMC Staff Sergeant William features a chapter about Staff
Joseph Lynch Sergeant Lynch. Ms. Holmes has
been interviewing, writing and
publishing works about World
William Joseph Lynch was born in
War II prisoners in the Pacific for the past 30 years.
1919 in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
She was the first Pacific War historian appointed to
and joined the United States Marine
the U.S. Government Nazi War Crimes and Japanese
Corps in 1937. In 1942, Staff Sergeant
Imperial Government Records Interagency Working
Lynch became a prisoner of the
Group (IWG). Ms. Holmes, a lifelong journalist and
Japanese following the battle of
editor, is a graduate of Wellesley College. She is a
Corregidor. He was transported,
former editor at the CBS Television network; a U.S.
along with more than 1,500 other
correspondent for the Australian, and served as
Allied prisoners to a prison camp in
president of the Society of the Silurians, the nation's
Mukden, China. He escaped in May 1944, but was
oldest press club from 2004-2006.
recaptured, and tried by the Kempei Tai, the Japanese
military police. They sentenced him to 6-7 years labor
USMC Gunnery Sergeant Roy
in the notorious Kempei Tai prison in Lushun, China.
Weaver was also a prisoner at
He was never seen again, and remains the only
Mukden, and the bunkmate of SSgt
missing prisoner at Mukden. Prof. Yang Jing of
Lynch. Sgt. Weaver joined the
Shenyang University and an American organization,
Unites States Marine Corps in
MIA Charities, Inc., are currently searching the
1938, and was in the Philippines
graveyard outside the Lushun prison.
when General Wainwright
surrendered to the Japanese. Along
NEHGS Library Director, Marie Daly, researched and
with Lynch, he was transported
located the family of Staff Sergeant Lynch, so that
aboard the hellship, Tottori Maru, to Mukden, China.
their DNA may be compared with the remains at
Unlike Lynch, Sgt. Weaver survived his prison
Lushun. During the program, Lynch’s niece will
ordeal, and will talk about his experiences in the
contribute a DNA sample.
Marine Corps and as prisoner of war.
Free and Open to the Public
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