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January 15, 2019 .... three new sketches from John Hoyte's Weihsien Sketchbook ... [click here]
January 4, 2019,
... new excerpts from John Hoyte's book:
April 5, 2018
July 3, 2017
June 15, 2017,
16 February, 2017
Ray's autobiography,
go to the bookstore on his website :
16 February, 2017
20 January 2017,
... the geography of China in 1932 ... ... (in French)
September 18, 2016
January 29, 2016
October 4, 2015
New Chapter (unfinished) 70 years commemorations of our liberation in Weifang:
September 6, 2015
From Mary Previte, ... audio recording: and a URL to:
September 5th, 2015,
Two new entries in Ida Talbot's diary,
August 11,
More paintings from Jacqueline de Saint Hubert, now Solange Mac Lean,
August 1
From Anne de Jongh's autograph book ...
July 3,---
New chapter: " 70 Years After "
June 8,
June 1, 2015
... from Mary Previte: and
and
[click on the pictures]
May 20th,
... new article about WeiHsien, ... [click on the picture]
May 8th, 2015
Found : the Seventh member of Stanley Staiger's DUCK-team ... [click on the photo]
February 20, 2014
... new article about Weihsien, ... click here
January 24, 2014,
new document ... excerpts from Mary Scott's book: Kept In Safeguard ...
October 3st, 2013
More about the Pamela Werner's (mysterious) murder in Peking ...
October 25, 2013
October 1st, 2013
New chapter from Joëlle LEY ...
July 20, 2013,
... a Winter's day in Weihsien ... by Peter Bazire, ...
May 30, 2013
Mary Previte's unabridged interview at NPR: ---
Front page of the Alliance Times-Herald, April 24, 2013 : ---
May 14, 2013
from: "WWII Veteran's Passing Stirs Memories Of Rescue"
May 13,
Book: Bringing Mulligan Home by Dale Maharidge: ...
May 11,
- Mary Previte's eulogy for Tad Nagaki : ....
April 20, 2013
- translated into English by Gay Stratford, née Talbot : [Scroll to the botom and click on the UnionJack]
November 6,
Book: "Midnight in Peking" ---
October 19,
Book: "Un Moine d'Aujourd'hui" (Father "Steel-Hammer") ...
October 16,
Book: "An Intrepid Woman" by Patrick M.R. Gibson [click on the book]
October 13,
January 21,
New "adds" from Ray Moore, ---
January 17, 2012,
Excerpt from Ida Talbot's diary ---
November 22,
By courtesy of Ray Moore, you can now download/read/print
his book: Moondani Kyema, ---
November 18, 2011
---- Mrs Ida Talbot's Weihsien Recipe Book,
---
October 21, 2011,
Books, ---
[click on the pictures]
September 21,
all about a "Beautiful, beautiful
Stew", ---
[click on the picture]
September 20,
August 18,
From Donald Menzi --- read the complete
story of the :
August 17, 2011
By courtesy of Dr. Christina D. Spink:
[click here]
July 15,
--- more about Helen Burton's Elephant
Shop ---
[click on the picture]
July 7, 2011
--- the Len Mapes' story ...
[click on the picture]
July 3, 2011
more Songs from Weihsien ---
and --- letters
May 19,
Topica archives 2010 --- now up to date
---
May 14, 2011
--- more about Father Van Genechten: ---
January 13, 2011
--- from Mary Previte, "He
Will Not Forsake My Children", September 1983: ---
December 12,
- more info about Father
Van Genechten by Jonathan Henshaw :
- About Chefoo School in Weihsien, by Peter Bazire
---
October 30th,
- from Jonathan Henshaw, ---- about Ahmed
Kamal:
and his M.A. thesis:
September 19, 2010
"found in Dad's papers" ----
(from Kim Smith) ----
July 6,
- Album: "The Children of Weihsien"
---
(282
pages) (updated --- July 17, 2010)
June 8, 2010
- 3 new pages from Joyce Bradbury's autoghraph book:
---
May27,
- 2 new audio recordings from Mary Previte:
&
May 5,
The books I read in camp (by Stanley Nordmo)
---
[click on the books]
April 11,
8 new pages from Gay Stratford-Talbot's
autograph book
[click on the picture]
April 6,
new add from Gay Startford-Talbot's autograph
book:
April 5,
Jason Nagaki's video & photos for:
[click on the picture]
March 22,
February 2,
Tad Nagaki's 90th birthday: Mary Previte's
photos --- [click
on the picture]
December 21
--- new add from Jonathan Henshaw, ---
October 19th
October 1st,
from Audrey Nordmo's Autograph book :
From Peter Bazire's Nature Diary:
August 17,
-- a new 3-part story about Tad Nagaki ---
- [click on the pictures]
August 13,
James Taylor's Bird Diary now complete:
August 1,
--- a research visit to Weifang, by Jonathan
Henshaw: ---
[click on the camera]
July 1,
May 18,
April 17,
Audrey Nordmo's visit to Nebraska:
[click on the picture]
March 22,
a book in French: "Le Gué du
Ciel" (Tientsin):
par Jacqueline Dubois
March 21,
CCTV - screen captures:
- (the captions (if any) are at the top-left of the ZOOMED
image's window.)
March 6,
--- a new document from Greg Leck:
March 1st,
Thanks to Pamela Masters, --- a new photo:
the Salvation Army group --
[click on the picture]
February 22,
all the new links are now active in Kim's
chapter:
February 15,
from
Father Hanquet's "Mémoires" a new chapter translated:
In
a Country Embroiled in Civil War
Translated by Albert de Zutter
February 14,
new photos from Kim's private collection:
February 1st,
--- new documents:
[click here]
January 17,
new translation into English by Gay Talbot-Stratford: Hanolien
January 6, 2009
December 10,
& click on the link: Tad
Nagaki ---
Decembre 5,
new translation into English by Gay Talbot-Stratford: Hongdong & Hanolien
December 3,
Two new chapters from Stephen Metcalf:
GROWING
UP UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR
FINAL
DAYS BEFORE FREEDOM
November 22,
Translations from Father Hanquet's Chapter --- so far --- [click here]
November 8,
Erratum ---
from Stephen Metcalf
November 4,
--- new extracts from Stephen Metcalf's book: -- FREEDOM TILL ARRIVAL IN AUSSIE
October 25,
--- CCTV documentary about Weihsien Camp
October 16,
a new video --- Mary Previte meeting with
James Moore for the first time at the U.S. Senate in Washington:
October 14,
From Father Hanquet: "First letter home"
--- translated by Albert de Zutter
----
[click here]
October 3,
Father Hanquet's book --- translations so far:
Biography,
by Ron Bridge
Origins of
a vocation by Albert de Zutter
October 2,
new add by Peter Bazire, "The Weihsien
Sympnony Orchestra" ---
[click here]
August 11, 2008
More memories from Father Hanquet's computer
---
August 3,
New photo with Eric Liddell from Christine
Sancton's photo album:
July 16, New chapter:
ERIC
LIDDELL A MAN WHO COULD FORGIVE
By Stephen. A. Metcalf.
June 05,
Thanks to Terri Stewart, --- more info about Alice Moore who lived in Block-21 --- [clicking on Block-21 will bring you to Ron Bridge's listings --- Once on that page: click on "Alice Moore" --- ]
May 12,
Two voice recordings of August 1945, Stanley Staiger
for the "DUCK" team and Lt. Zimpleman (aviator) --
March 16,
Very recent photos from Mr. Sui Shude
March 16,
--- photographs of Weihsien taken in 1908
by Eric Gustafson's grand father ---
January 20,
Weihsien, "My First Class Journey"
--- by Peter Bazire ---
[click on the picture]
January 14,
--- new chapter from Terri Stewart, with
two letters: and
more to come ---
January 10, 2008
December 18,
Tribute to Tad Nagaki in Alliance, Nebraska
---
Decamber 15,
visit Weihsien with Brian Butcher ---
October 30th,
more from Peter Bazire's diary ---
October 25,
Read "Forgiven
but not Forgotten" by Joyce Brabury-Cooke ---
[click on the book]
October 21,
Shandong Film & Teleplay Production
Center, Producing Group of Documentary Weihsien Camp ---
[click on the picture]
(with captions)
October 12,
--- a copy of Peter Bazire's diary written
62 years ago ---
--5 new pages and links ---
October 5,
--- a Video from Mary Previte: "The
National WWII Museum - New Orleans" ---
October 4,
--- new chapter --- From Pamela Masters:
with 9 more photographs of Weihsien Camp --- [click on the picture]
September 20,
--- a new chapter --- From Anne de Saint
Hubert, Christian's daughter and Jacqueline's niece:
[click on the
picture]
September 4,
--- the map of China -- Pei-P'ing (PEKING)
used by Father Hanquet after the war
September 3,
--- first letter home after Camp, October
5, 1945 --- [click
here] , by Father Hanquet ---- (in French)
August 31,
--- a copy of Peter Bazire's diary written
62 years ago ---
--4 more pages ---
August 26,
Our situation in the Far East (February,
1944) seen by the Belgian Red Cross:
[click on the picture]
August 17,
--- a copy of Peter Bazire's diary written
62 years ago ---
July 12,
THE LIFE & TESTIMONY OF NORMAN HOWARD
CLIFF, 1925-2007
by Estelle Cliffe Horne
July 11,
more
about Eric Liddell (in Chinese) --- --- A Song of Salvation (in Chinese) --- |
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June 8,
Topica archives for the year 2007 - up-to-date
---
June 6,
Topica archives for the year 2006
May 16,
Photograph of the silver B-24, "Armored
Angel" that flew over Weihsien on August 17, 1945 --
May 12,
--- found a press article ---
--- in dad's papers ---
May 12,
Albert de Zutter's visit to Belgium, ---
April 11,
More about our Weihsien-Camp's history
---
March 3,
new documents from Donald Menzi ---
February 15,
New Chapter ----------- Peter Bazire -----------
January 9,
Can
you help identifying people in Greg Leck's book?
New Chapter ---------------------------------------------
December 22,
Link to Story No.3 --- March to freedom filled with danger
Link to Story No.4 --- Veteran “went for broke” to serve country
Link to Story No.5 --- ‘Merrill’s Marauders,’ Nisei helped shorten World War II
Link
to Story No.6
Link to Story No.7 --- Hiroshima 1945: Japanese-American officer finds old home an atomic wasteland
December 17,
--- a new article in the chapter: "The
Magnificent 7" ---
published
in The Monmouth Message, (Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, December
8, 2006.)
September 03,
Chapter 6: FOOD
September 01,
--- a new chapter and a book thanks to
Gordon Helsby ---
July 20,
Thanks to Google-Earth, -
(In the "maps" Chapter)
July 16,
Look in the "BOOKS" chapter and click on the books about Weihsien ---
click on the picture to read the Weihsien
episode ---
July 12,
National Public Radio interview about Weihsien
June 13,
June 12,
New documents from Norman Cliff,
May 23,
Copy of an empty envelope found on the
Internet --- and we found the original correspondence still in our possession:
April 26,
New document found in a shoe-box!
April 15,
,
Gay's visit to Brussels,
,
[click on the picture]
April 13,
,
about Eric Liddell, by James Taylor
III
April 12,
new
--- about Hugh Hubbard [click on the picture]
April 9,
Beyond the Chariots of Fire ---
"The Arena of Eric Liddell", by James Taylor III
March 23,
New Chapter --- From Gladys Swift,
February 8,
Topica messages updated --> December 31, 2005
January 29,
--- and a marvellous publication, given to us by Mr. Li Yuejin and Mr. Wang Hao ---
January 28,
January 27,
--- and the end of our short visit to China
---
January 20,
--- a visit to Weifang ---
--- visit to the "old" compound
January 18,
--- a visit to Weifang ---
chapter I: The Kite Fabric ---
today: click on:
and look for "NEW"
December 6,
November 29,
Many more RedCross letters from Brian Butcher
---
November 22,
102 new photos ---- from:
Joyce Bradbury and family ---
November 20,
new painting,
from Brian Butcher
November 6,
new photos from Brian Butcher ---
November 4,
--- a new way of finding pictures and texts
---
October 28
New sketches & new photos from Brian
Butcher
(click on the pictures)
October 27,
a letter from Father Raymond deJaegher,
(click on the envelope)
October 22,
The magazine received in Weifang:
- From David Beard ----- (click on the picture)
October 19,
Thanks to Father Hanquet: 3 new documents!
--
October 18,
new photo:
[click on the picture]
October 14,
The Flying Tigers and their relevance to
Weihsien C.A.C.
William A. Smith's
article in
"Asia and the Americas"
July, 1946
[click here]
October 5,
a new document from David Beard:
October 3,
SPEECHES:
- by ZHANG XINQI - by ZHANG QUANLIN - by ZHANG XIHONG - by Mary T.PREVITE - by Stephen Metcalf |
October 2,
--- new picture:
- in Mary Previte's chapter ---
--- Transcription of Speech by Mr. Zhang
Quanlin, Party Secretary Weifang Municipal
Committee of the CPC, at Opening Ceremony of Liberation Day, August 17, 2005
[click here]
--- Stephen Metcalf's speech on video now!
--- Mary Previte's speech on video now!
--- two new "RedCross" letters
from Brian Butcher ---
October 1st,
September 29,
James Taylor III's photographs ---
September 27,
Norman's visit to China --- May > June,
2005
September 25,
new Red Cross message from Mary Previte's
collection ---
and --- a new photograph from David Beard
with all the names :-))
September 24,
Thanks to Brian
Butcher: New sketch of Weihsien, Brian's badge and his memories
----
September 23,
Jimmy Moore's citation and an extract from Mary Previte's autograph book ----
September 22,
new
in Mary Previte's Chapter: [click here] -
September 21,
Mary T. Previte's speech and a few more
pictures ---
[click here]
new group picture --- #180
--- and send me your name if you are not identified in the picture :-)) ---
PS: d'on't forget the number just after the two "??" -- Thanks for
your help !!
September 10,
--- a souvenir hankerchief ---
(click on the picture)
September 8,
new photos and more comming from:
September 3,
--- new sketches and new photos ---
--- a new search engine within the Weihsien-picture-gallery-web-site.
If you are looking for something in particular, this might help ---
September 2, --- IRemember ---
September 1,
New slide show:
[click
here] --- and many more photos ---
August 20,
- Two new paintings from Christine Sancton:
August 18,
4 new paintings from Christine Sancton:
August 18,
David Beard's aerial views of Weihsien - 1945 -
Donald Menzi's story of the day,
August 17,
Photos from Weifang,
and --- new paintings from Christine Sancton: