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ALLEN, Billy W. (b. 1920)

ProfessionsSchoolteacher
Military ServiceU.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Oral Histories

OH 0298

Schoolteacher. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war duty in China with 4th Marines; fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila; Cabanatuan, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Osaka, 1942-45, and American air raids; liberation.