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Oral history interview with Louis B. Read, 1972 November 3

Resource Type:
Manuscript (Paper)
Publication:
1972
Serial Holdings:
Shelved in Oral History Transcripts Collection, University Archives.
Related Series:
Oral History; [volume] 138

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Summary:
Interview with Louis B. Read, a businessman, an Army veteran, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Read discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Shinagawa Prison Camp, Honshu (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Table of Contents:
  • November 3, 1972 interview [233 leaves]
  • Appendix: photocopies of notebooks kept by Louis B. Read [99 leaves]
  • photocopy of a partial issue of Newsweek magazine dated September 10, 1945; includes p.1(?), 10-26, 28-30, 32, and 35 [23 leaves].
Author/Creator:
Read, Louis B., 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 Louis B. Read, 1972 November 3 [by Read, L.B.]
Related Series:
Oral History; [volume] 138
Subjects:
Read, Louis B., 1920- — Oral history
United States Army — History — World War, 1939-1945 — Oral history
O'Donnell Camp (Philippines : Concentration camp) — Oral history
Cabanatuan (Philippines : Concentration camp) — Oral history
Shinagawa Prison Camp (Tokyo, Japan) — 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
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:
233 pages, 99 unnumbered pages, 23 unnumbered leaves : facsimiles ; 29 cm
Call Numbers:
OH 138
OCLC Numbers:
171297452