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Oral History Interview with Allen Stafford, March 12, 1999 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Allen Stafford, March 12, 1999

The National museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Stafford. Stafford enlisted in the Army in January 1941. Once the war got started, Stafford found himself as an infantry instructor in Brownsville, Texas. He went overseas with the 124th Cavalry Regiment in 1943 to India for training before being deployed to Burma. He relates an anecdote about driving 500 mules from the docks at Bombay to the 124th encampment 18 miles inland. Stafford also reads excerpts from his personal journal and discusses the raid on the airport at Myitkyina. Later in the campaign, Stafford was wounded. After evacuation and stays in hospitals in India, he returned to New York in August, 1945.
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: Stafford, Allen
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[But Not in Shame, Part 2] captions transcript

[But Not in Shame, Part 2]

Video footage from a symposium sponsored by the National Museum of the Pacific War entitled But Not in Shame discussing men who were Prisoners of War in Japan during World War Two. This video contains remarks given by Admiral Grojean, Marty Marshall, Margaret Gillooly, Inez Jongenburger and Morris Shoss.
Date: November 11, 1999
Creator: National Museum of the Pacific War
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History