Interviewee | KENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921) |
Professions | Businessman |
Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
Interview ID # | Oh 0699 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | 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. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 154 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |