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Tagged with "Pacific Theater"

  • OH 0624
    Labor representative, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaja, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Tokyo docks; Nagasaki; Fukuoka Prison…
  • OH 0657
    Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan…
  • OH 0689
    Civil servant, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death…
  • OH 0691
    Businessman, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand Death…
  • OH 0877
    His experiences as a cryptanalyst during World War II. U.S. Naval Academy, 1930-34. Qualities of a good cryptanalyst; Japanese language training in Tokyo, 1939-40; evacuation from Tokyo, August, 1941; assignment to HYPO, Pearl Harbor; impressions of…
  • OH 0928
    His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; Tarawa, 1943; and Okinawa, 1945.
  • OH 0936
    His experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-43; participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville; Marianas campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam, 1944.
  • OH 0996
    His experiences in the Battle of Midway and his role as a fighter pilot; Guadalcanal operations, August-November, 1942; shot down over water, November, 1942; assignment to Vella Lavella and fighter sweeps over Rabaul; postwar activities as a test…
  • OH 0998
    His experiences in the Pacific Theater as a combat pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. Fall of Singapore; Guadalcanal operations; air combat against Japanese Zeros; release from duty, December 1943.
  • OH 1030
    His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pilot training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1941; assignment to Air Group 9 on the carrier Essex; discussion of Hellcat fighter; sinking of Fubuki-class destroyer, June, 1944, off Pagan…
  • OH 1043
    His experiences as a navigator/radar bombardier aboard B-29s flying bombing missions from Saipan to Japan, 1945.
  • OH 1047
    Attorney. His experiences with the 96th infantry Division at Okinawa, 1945; close action ground combat; his battle wound.
  • OH 1066
    His experiences as an Alamo Scout and pathfinder in the Pacific during World War II. Training rigors; 511th Parachute Infantry in New Guinea, 1944; temporary capture by Japanese troops; operations on Nemfer Island; landing at Nasugbu, Philippines,…
  • OH 1072
    Her experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Santo Tomas, Manila, 1942-43; Los Banos, 1943-45
  • OH 1073
    Physician. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese following the fall of the Philippines in World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1944-…
  • OH 1117
    Company transportation executive. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Silversides in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
  • OH 1121
    His experiences aboard the submarine USS Silversides in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
  • OH 1125
    His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Hoe in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
  • OH 1149
    His experiences as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam and Saipan to Japan, 1945; Japanese flak and fighter opposition.
  • OH 1150
    His experiences while aboard the submarines USS S-42 and USS Sterlet in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war duty aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma, 1937-41; Japanese air raid at Cavite Naval Base, Philippines, 1941; his…
  • OH 1153
    Physician. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Blower in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Blower, 1944; his responsibilities as plotting officer; various patrols…
  • OH 1154
    His experiences as an engineering officer with Submarine Division 46 and Submarine Division 106 in the Pacific Theater while stationed at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Assignment to the USS Cuttlefish, 1941; transfer to the Engineering and…
  • OH 1164
    His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and Philippines; transfer to the…
  • OH 1170
    His experiences while aboard the submarines USS S-45, USS Sunfish, USS Spearfish, and USS Pogy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war duty aboard the battleship USS California and the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes, 1935-39; Submarine…
  • OH 1172
    His experiences aboard the escort carrier USS Bougainville in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Operations off Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa; typhoon off Okinawa, 1945.