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RAGGLE TAGGLE

Raggle Taggle was a handwritten magazine created by Allied prisoners of war (POWs) held by the Japanese at the Shirakawa camp in Taiwan (formerly Formosa) during World War II. Hand-illustrated and bound with scrap paper and mosquito netting, it served as a vital morale booster among the imprisoned officers and men. Because the Japanese captors supervised and censored the publication, the men used the magazine as a creative outlet to share stories, poems, sketches, and cartoons. There was only a single copy to be shared among roughly 800 men, making it a highly cherished antidote to despair. in 1947, four hundred copies were made of the original surviving book; this is a pdf copy of one of those copies.

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