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DUNN, E. Benjamin (b. 1917)

Military ServiceU.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard
Notable infomember of the “Lost Battalion"

Oral Histories

OH 1329

Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Basic training and assignment to the 26th Field Artillery Brigade, 1941; transfer to Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 1942; fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.