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Summary:

Interview with Jake Guiles, Army Air Corps veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Guiles discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), Bilibid Prison in Manila (1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), coal mining at Histashi (Hitachi?), Honshu (1944), copper mining at Ashio, Niigata (1945), and his liberation.

Table of Contents:

• June 20, 1972 interview [134 leaves]
• Appendix: photocopy of the notebook kept by Guiles during his experience as a prisoner of war during World War II [57 leaves]

Author/Creator:

Guiles, Jake, 1920-

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 Jake Guiles, 1972 June 20 [by Guiles, J.]

Related Series:

Oral History; [volume] 133

Subjects:

Guiles, Jake, 1920- — Oral history

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

Bilibid Prison (Manila, Philippines) — Oral history

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

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

Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942 — Oral history

Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 — Oral history

Genres:

Oral history — Examples

World War II oral history — Examples

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 1972 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:

134 pages, 57 unnumbered leaves : facsimiles ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 133

OCLC Numbers:

162135928