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Oral History Interview with Douglas F. Knight, March 12, 1978

Interview with Douglas Knight, U.S. Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Knight talks about the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), the hell ship to Japan (1942), Hakodate, Hokkaido (1942-1944), and his liberation.

Date: March 12, 1978

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Knight, Douglas F.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[News Script: Hijacking]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a young masked hijacker who took over a Japanese jumbo jet with 429 persons aboard which as left Tokyo was arrested by police in Naha, Okinawa airport .

Date: March 12, 1974, 12:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tokyo]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a contingent of 300 Okinawan police who are surrounding a hijacked Japan air lines jumbo jet at the pacific island' s Naha airport.

Date: March 12, 1974, 6:30 a.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Henry Stanley, March 12, 1973

Interview with Henry Stanley, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW who survived the Bataan Death March. Stanley discusses joining the Air Corps and prewar service, the Japanese invasion, Bataan and Corregidor, capture by Japanese forces, the march, internment at Clark Field, transit to Japan and internment there, and the war's end. In appendix are letters Stanley wrote during the war, telegrams and letters to his family from the War Department regarding his status, and a statement recording hi… more

Date: March 12, 1973

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.