| Interviewee | CHARLES, Howard E. (b. 1919) |
| Professions | Businessman |
| Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran |
| Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
| Interview ID # | OH 1243 |
| 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 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. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 190 pp. plus documents (3 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
