Interview with Horace Chumley, retired law enforcement officer, U.S. Army WWII veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and member of the “Lost Battalion.” Chumley discusses his experiences while being held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942-45; liberation.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Pan America World airways and the Small Business Administration who list a Dallas couple among 106 victims of its jetliner crash in Bali.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Pan American World Airways who identified a Dallas couple as two of the 106 victims in crash of a Pan Am jetliners on the island of Bali.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Indonesian policemen who reports no survivors among the 106 persons aboard a Pan America airways jetliner that crashed in flames in Bali.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the search and rescue teams which left for the island of Bali where a Pan Am 707 crashed.

Interview with W. L. Starnes, a businessman, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Starnes talks about the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), and his liberation.

Interview with Keith Naylor, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Vernon, Texas, who was captured with 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") on Java by the Japanese. Naylor discusses joining the Guard, deployment to the Pacific and the war's start, operations at Malang on Java, the American surrender, experiences in internment at Tanjung Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, work on the Burma Railway, internment at Chungkai and Linson in Thailand, and liberation. In appendix are an excerpt from a radio broadcast of Norton McGriffin in the News, three letters to Naylor's mother regarding his MIA status, and two cards from Naylor while interned.