Oral history interview with Ken Towery, 1995 March 19.

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Oral history interview with Ken Towery, 1995 March 19.

Interview with Ken Towery, a journalist and Army veteran (59th Coast Artillery Regiment) and a survivor of the seige of Corregidor, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Towery discusses the fall of Corregidor and his capture, Cabanatuan (1942), Mukden, Manchuria (1942-1945), and his liberation by Russian troops.

30 leaves ; 29 cm.

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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