| Interviewee | DETRE, George E. (b. 1918) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
| Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
| Interview ID # | OH 0475 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | 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 Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Singapore, 1944-45; hell ship to Japan, 1945; coal mining at Senju, Kyushu, 1945; liberation. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 230 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
