Interviewee | WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914) |
Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran |
Notable info | survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston |
Interview ID # | OH 1295 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | 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 at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri, Burma, 1944-45; liberation. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 232 pp. plus documents (56 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |