Interviewee | HALLORAN, Raymond F. (b. 1922) |
Professions | Businessman |
Military Service | U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran, 878th Bomb Squadron, 499th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force |
Interview ID # | OH 1250 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | Businessman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Navigator training in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas; assignment to Saipan, 1944; his B-29 shot down over Tokyo, January, 1945; capture and interrogation by Japanese army personnel; beatings and torture; solitary confinement in Tokyo at the "The Stables"; Tokyo fire bomb raid of March 10, 1945; interrogation, beatings, and torture by Kempei-tai; transfer to Omori camp; liberation in August, 1945; postwar psychological problems and adjustments. |
Interviewer(s) | William J. Alexander |
Physical Description | 139 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |