Oral History Interview with Dorothy Davis Thompson, June 13, 2006 transcript

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
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 226, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 226, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006

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Date: June 25, 2006
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Texas: A Quick Look (open access)

Texas: A Quick Look

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Date: June 2006
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The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 2006 (open access)

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Date: June 8, 2006
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 230, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 2006 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 230, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Date: June 29, 2006
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Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 2006

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Date: June 1, 2006
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Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 157, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 157, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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Date: June 14, 2006
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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 361, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 4, 2006 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 361, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 4, 2006

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Date: June 4, 2006
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Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 245, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 245, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006

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Date: June 25, 2006
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The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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Date: June 14, 2006
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Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 51, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 51, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 2006

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Date: June 25, 2006
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The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 2006 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 2006

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Date: June 18, 2006
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The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006

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Date: June 23, 2006
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
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