OH 1243 | Oral History

OH 1243

CHARLES, Howard E. (b. 1919)

Military Service: U.S. Marine Corps 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 the Houston, 1942, capture and imprisonment in 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.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 190 pp. plus documents (3 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview March 25, 1998

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