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Military Service: U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard
Notable: member of the “Lost Battalion"
Oral Histories
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Jack County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Baggs, Wyoming; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: September 3, 1997
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.
Date of Interview: June 3, 1997, June 10, 1997
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.
Date of Interview: June 3, 1997, June 10, 1997