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Oh 0699

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeKENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921)
ProfessionsBusinessman
Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran
Notable infosurvivor of the sinking of the USS Houston

About this oral history

Interview ID #Oh 0699
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionBusinessman, 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; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description154 pp.
Terms of UseOpen