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CHARLES, Howard E. (b. 1919)

ProfessionsBusinessman
Military ServiceU.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran
Notable infosurvivor of the sinking of the USS Houston

Oral Histories

OH 1243

Businessman, survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the Houston, 1942, capture and imprisonment in Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45.