OH 1196 | Oral History

OH 1196

CAPPS, Thurman (b. 1919)

Notable: member of the “Lost Battalion"
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, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma, 1944-45; liberation.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 109 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview July 8, 1997

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