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Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1985 (open access)

Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1985

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 15, 1985
Creator: Thompson, Joe A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985

Interview with Jess Stanbrough, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Wichita Falls, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Stanbrough discusses his time in the Guard before the war, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, operating a clandestine radio, transfer to Japan, being an iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, American air and naval bombardment, and liberation.
Date: April 15, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stanbrough, Jess
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library