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- ↑ Photograph of Santo Tomas Internment Camp supervisors and monitors, including Horace Pond, sixth from left.
- ↑ Reference to Horace B. Pond [ permanent dead link ] 's Prisoner of War Record.
- ↑ See: reference to Horace B. Pond in Only A Matter of Days: The World War II Prison Camp Diary of Fay Cook Bailey.