Interviewee | WHITE, Roger (b. 1919) |
Military Service | U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard |
Notable info | member of the “Lost Battalion" |
Interview ID # | OH 1167 |
Date(s) of interview | , |
Description | 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 Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 160 pp. plus documents (46 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |