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Oral History Interview with Houston Tom Wright, August 15, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Houston Tom Wright, August 15, 1978

Interview with Houston Tom ("Slug") Wright, 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. Wright discusses 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 and Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), American air raids, Tamuang, Thailand (1944), Phet Buri, Thailand (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Date: August 15, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wright, Houston Tom, 1915-
System: The UNT Digital Library