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Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985

Description: 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 n… more
Date: April 15, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stanbrough, Jess
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[WASP Militarization Scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook filled with papers, clippings, newsletters, and pamphlets discussing the Women Airforce Service Pilots program and the fight for WASP militarization after World War II.
Date: November 3, 1986
Creator: Florey, Ruth Underwood & Deaton, Leoti
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Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with M. T. Harrelson, May 9, 1985

Description: Interview with M. T. Harrelson, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Wichita Falls, Texas, who was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Harrelson discusses National Guard training and operations before the war, deployment to the Pacific and diversion to Java, the Japanese invasion, surrender and initial confinement, internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, and the end of the war.
Date: May 9, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harrelson, M. T., 1919-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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