Oral history interview with William G. Adair, 1971 May 27.

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Oral history interview with William G. Adair, 1971 May 27.

Interview with Major William G. Adair, businessman, Army veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Adair discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1943), the hell ship to Japan (1943), Zentsuji, Shikoku (1943), Rokuroshi, Honshu (1945), and his liberation.

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