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MINSHEW, Cecil T. (b. 1919)

Military ServiceU.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard
Notable infomember of the “Lost Battalion"

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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; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1942; shipbuilding at Nagasaki, 1943-44; Orio, Kyushu, 1944-45; liberation; Nagasaki after dropping the A-bomb.