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STEWART, William J. (b. 1920)

Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran
Notable infosurvivor of the sinking of the USS Houston

Oral Histories

OH 0544

Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Ohasi, Honshu, 1942-45; liberation.