OH 0110 | Oral History

OH 0110

GEE, James (b. 1920)

Military Service: U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran
Profession: Sales Executive
Notable: survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston
Sales executive, 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 Burma Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; coal mining near Nagasaki, 1944-45; liberation.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 209 pp. plus documents (24 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview March 6, 1972 to March 13, 1972

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