Oral history interview with George Koury, Jr., 1972 April 27.

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Oral history interview with George Koury, Jr., 1972 April 27.

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Interview with George Koury, Jr., a Marine Corps veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Koury discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1943), Nichols Field (1943-1944), the hell ship to Formosa (1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Prison Camp No. 7 in northern Honshu (1944-1945), and his liberation.

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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