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.

His experiences as a B-17 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. Service in the U.S.

Podiatrist. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner in a B-29 crew; decision to enter jewelry business and purchase Kinne’s Jewelers in Gainesville, Texas.

His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans.

Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Flight training; flight from the U. S. to Grafton-Underwood, England; personal relationship with General Curtis LeMay; missions and German defenses; nineteenth mission and crash landing; twenty-fifth mission.

Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight and flight training, 1943; assignment to 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, at Stone, England; characteristics of the B-17G; first mission, Berlin; problems with flak; tactics to counter German radar; engine trouble and crash landing in eastern Germany; rescue by Soviet troops; trip by C-47 back to England via Poltava, Teheran, Cairo, Tripoli, Dijon; assignment to new crew; shot down by German fighter planes on seventeenth mission; brief experience as POW; liberation by British troops.

His experiences aboard the motor torpedo boat tender USS Jamestown in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II.

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, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Non Pladuk, Thailand, 1944-45; Ubon, Thailand, 1945; liberation.

Retired federal labor mediator and conciliator. Experiences and reminiscences from his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; early boyhood; employment with the International Harvester Company; comments about the Depression and New Deal; Kansas employment Service; employment with U.S. Potash company and experiences with the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union; employment with U.S.