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Summary:

Interview with Paul Bunch, businessman, Army veteran, and survivor of the Bataan campaign, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Bunch discusses the bombing of Clark Field, the fall of Bataan and his capture, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942), the hell ship to Japan (1942), Yodogawa Steel Mill, Honshu, Miyazu, Honshu (1944-1945), American air raids, and his liberation.

Author/Creator:

Bunch, William P., 1921-2008

Contributors:

Marcello, Ronald E.

World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project

North Texas State University > Oral History Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Oral history interview with Paul Bunch, 1971 December 7 [by Bunch, W.P.]

Related Series:

Oral History; [volume] 91

Subjects:

Bunch, William P., 1921- — Oral history

United States Army — History — World War, 1939-1945 — Oral history

United States Army — Coast Artillery, 200th — Battery F — Oral history

Yodogawa Steel Mill (Osaka, Japan) — Oral history

Cabanatuan (Philippines : Concentration camp) — Oral history

Prisoners of war — Japan — Oral history

Prisoners of war — Philippines — Oral history

Prisoners of war — United States — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Philippines — Bataan (Province) — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, Japanese — Oral history

Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942 — Oral history

Clark Field (Philippines) — History — World War, 1939-1945 — Oral history

O'Donnell Camp (Philippines : Concentration camp) — Oral history

Genres:

Oral history — Examples

World War II oral history — Examples

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 1971 for the World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project. Interviewer: Dr. Ronald E. Marcello, Professor of History, North Texas State University.

Physical Description:

106 leaves ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 91

OCLC Numbers:

156911786