I am looking for anyone that might have information regarding my uncle, Morris Haugo. He was stationed in Shanghi and taken prisoner in 1941. He spent the duration in a prison camp somewhere in Japan. I believe he worked in a shipyard.

Your father was stationed in Peking in Dec 1941. His serial number was 252181, was a Sgt at that time. He was with the embassy guard detachment which had men at Peking, Tientsin, and Chingwangtao. He was captured 8 Dec, kept in the barracks until 10 Jan 1942 when the men from Peking were sent to Tientsin to join the other Marines there. Then they were sent to Woosung POW camp outside Shanghai. I don't have a record of where he went from there, but he would have left Woosung in Aug 43 for Kawasaki Japan or in early summer of 45 for camps in Japan.
There is a group of North China Marines which still get together about once a year. This year only seven were there.
My father in law was also in Peking. Have been researching this lately. Do you know about the books written by 5 different North China Marines?
John Powers

Go to www.northchinamarines.com for info on Morris Haugo and the unit he was a POW with.

Dear Ray...I am the daughter of Morris Haugo and your cousin. I met you many years ago during a visit by my family to your family in Taylor Falls, Mn. I found this link by a fluke as I typed my father's name into Google just to see if anything would come up. I was thinking a lot about him as my brother had just been out to visit me in Pennsylvania and we had shared many memories. He returned to his home in Sandy, Utah. He has visited the P.O.W. reunions and has met men who were in prison with Morris. He became very close to one of them who died recently. He has many stories that I had never heard before as our father died when we were very young and actually never talked about his experiences to us as children. I called Mark last night when I found your posting and he tried to find it. I am sending him the link, but I am also going to give you his e-mail address in the hopes that you check this site and that you will contact him. Mark just brought me a tiny wooden cat that Morris had carved many years ago and that had been at our cousin Beulah's for many years. His address is: [email protected] I hope that you will make contact with him and that maybe I will hear from you also. My main memory of you is that you sang a pretty mean Blue Suede Shoes! Your long-lost cousin...Candyce Haugo Henneberger