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OH 1242

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeSTEIN, Paul D. (b. 1920)
ProfessionsPrinter
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 1242
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionPrinter, member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description133 pp.
Terms of UseOpen