1945 | Oral History

1945

OH 1260

Truck driver. His experiences in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1945-47. Assignment to Regensburg; patrols to outlying villages; relations with former SS troops; comments about black market activities; social life; physical destruction of Nazi symbols and insignia; visit to Dachau; relations between American troops and civilians; visit to Adolph Hitler's hunting lodge in the Black Forest.

OH 1401

Member of Doolittle's Raiders. His experiences as Jimmie Doolittle’s co-pilot during the Tokyo Raid of April 18, 1942.

OH 0100

Survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war duty in north China; fall of Bataan and capture; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Davao Penal Colony, 1943; escape from torpedoed hell ship and rescue by Filipino guerrillas; evacuation by American submarine.

OH 1371

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, 1942-43; Kaoren, Thailand, 1943-45; liberation by the OSS, 1945.

OH 0199

Retired law enforcement officer, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences while being held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942-45; liberation.

OH 1243

Businessman, 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 in Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45.