Oral history interview with Raymond F. "Hap" Halloran, 1998 March 15.

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Oral history interview with Raymond F. "Hap" Halloran, 1998 March 15.

Interview with Raymond F. "Hap" Halloran, businessman and Army Air Force veteran (878th Bomb Squadron, 499th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Navigator training in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas; assignment to Saipan, 1944; his B-29 shot down over Tokyo, January, 1945; capture and interrogation by Japanese army personnel; beatings and torture; solitary confinement in Tokyo at the "The Stables"; Tokyo fire bomb raid of March 10, 1945; interrogation, beatings, and torture by Kempei-tai; transfer to Omori camp; liberation in August, 1945; postwar psychological problems and adjustments. Appendix includes photocopies of six photographs.

139, [6] leaves ; 29 cm.

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