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