Oh 0699 | Oral History

Oh 0699

KENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921)

Military Service: U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
Profession: Businessman
Notable: survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston
Businessman, 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; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 154 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview April 15, 1987

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