Oral history interview with Lloyd V. Willey, 1999 March 03.

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Oral history interview with Lloyd V. Willey, 1999 March 03.

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Interview with Lloyd V. Willey, a Marine Corps veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri, Burma, 1944-45; liberation. Appendix includes poems written by the interviewee and photocopied picture of the interviewee.

232, [57] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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