Interviewee | WISECUP, John (b. 1919) |
Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran |
Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
Interview ID # | OH 0704 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | Survivor of the sinking of the cruiser 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; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 127 pp. plus documents (10 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |