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OH 0369

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeTHOMPSON, Kyle O. (b. 1922)
ProfessionsJournalist
Military ServiceU.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard
Notable infomember of the “Lost Battalion"

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0369
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionJournalist, member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description135 pp.
Terms of UseOpen