1944 | Oral History

1944

OH 0309

Retired printer. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Capture and interrogation, November, 1944; Stalag 12-A, Limburg, Germany; civilian hostility; Stalag 3-B, Furstenburg, 1944-45; forced March to Stalag 3-A; Luckenwalde, 1945; liberation by Russian troops.

OH 0285

Electrician. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war embassy duty in Peking, north China, with 6th Marines; capture in Peking; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942-45; Fengtai and Kiangwang Prison Camps, 1945; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.

OH 1398

Engineer. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, 1943; transit to Europe as a replacement to E Company, 119th Infantry Regiment, 1944; action on the Siegfried Line, 1944; the Battle of Aachen, 1944; individual episodes of close ground combat; his observations of German tank concentrations immediately prior to the Ardennes Offensive, November 22, 1944; his battle wound and evacuation from the front, November 22, 1944; recuperation in France and England; return to the States, June, 1945.

Oh 0135

Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture, 1942; Malinta Tunnel; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Tanagawa, Honshu, 1943-44; Zentsuji and Rokorushi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.

OH 1556

Accountant. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in an Italian immigrant family in Tonopah, Nevada; his early job selling newspapers while in school; graduation from high school and enrollment at Woodbury College, Los Angeles, California, 1941; his transfer to the University of Southern California and enrollment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, September, 1942; induction into the U.S.

OH 1353

His experiences in the Pacific Theater; and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II.

OH 1285

His experiences aboard destroyers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early education in England; U.S. Naval Academy, 1928-32; assignment to the USS Tennessee, 1932-33; assignment to the USS New Mexico, 1933-36; assignment to the USS Mahan, 1936-38; assignment to the USS Cuyama, 1938-39; developing techniques for refueling at sea; assignment to the U.S.

OH 0530

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 of Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan and Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1943; Da Lat and Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.