BURGE, Jack (b. 1918) | Oral History

BURGE, Jack (b. 1918)

Military Service: U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
Notable: survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston

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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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: May 16, 1978

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