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WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914)

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

Oral Histories

OH 1295

Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri, Burma, 1944-45; liberation.