Internment Camp | Oral History

Internment Camp

OH 1000

His experiences during internment in the Soviet Union, 1943-44, after the downing of his bomber by Japanese planes. Alaskan operations; internment by the Soviets and his treatment; postwar career in the Air Force.

OH 0255

Protestant chaplain, survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; American air raids at Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Fukuoka Prison Camp, Kyushu, 1945; Mukden, Manchuria, 1945; liberation by Soviet troops.

OH 1069

College professor. Her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado; evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache, September, 1942; camp life; her marriage in camp; resettlement in Chicago; lasting impressions of the internment experience.