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STANBROUGH, Jess (b. 1918)

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

Oral Histories

OH 0658

Physicist, businessman, 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; construction and operation of secret radio at Bicycle Camp; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, 1942-43; Ohasi, Honshu, 1943; continued operation of clandestine radio; American air and naval bombardment, 1944-45; Kamaishi, 1944-45; liberation.