Interviewee | OGLE, Ray (b. 1922) |
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 1192 |
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; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; railway maintenance work, 1944-45; liberation. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 178 pp. plus documents (5 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |