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Oral History Interview with Dorothy Davis Thompson, June 13, 2006
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dorothy Davis Thompson. Thompson was born in Shanghai and graduated high school there in 1935. In 1937, when the Japanese invaded Shanghai she was at Columbia University in New York learning nursing. Her family fled to Manila. When she graduated in 1940, she went to be with her parents in the Philippines. She got a job as a Civil Service nurse in the obstetrics ward at Sternberg Army Hospital, met her fiancee there, and was working there when the Japanese invaded Luzon. Her fiancee was soon fighting on Bataan. She received some notes from him from Cabanatuan but never saw him again. (Don Childers was killed as a POW while en route to Japan aboard a hell ship that was torpedoed by a US submarine.) Thompson then describes caring for wounded and injured in the hospital until she was captured by the Japanese and removed with her father, mother and sister to the internment camp at Santo Tomas in January, 1942. Thompson speaks about the conditions inside Santo Tomas in the early days and how the Japanese had not been prepared to provide for civilian internees. She describes …
Date:
June 13, 2006
Creator:
Thompson, Dorothy Davis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 226, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 25, 2006
Creator:
Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas: A Quick Look
Travel guide of quick facts about Texas as well as information and resources of interest to tourists.
Date:
June 2006
Creator:
Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 2006
Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 8, 2006
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 230, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 2006
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 29, 2006
Creator:
Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 2006
Weekly newspaper from Hondo, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 1, 2006
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 157, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 14, 2006
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 361, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 4, 2006
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 4, 2006
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 245, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006
Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 25, 2006
Creator:
Stone, Greg
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 14, 2006
Creator:
Bush, Kent
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 51, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006
Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 25, 2006
Creator:
White, Barbara
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 2006
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 18, 2006
Creator:
Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006
Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 23, 2006
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History