Interviewee | PRYOR, C. L. (b. 1920) |
Professions | College Professor |
Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran |
Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
Interview ID # | OH 0139 |
Date(s) of interview | - |
Description | College professor, 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; Tamuang, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 346 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |