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Submitted: 9/4/20 • Approved: 9/5/20 • Last Updated: 9/8/20 • R349594-G0-S3
MACHINIST'S MATE CHIEF PETTY OFFICER US Navy
World War II
Korea
August 9, 1918 Beckett, Ohio
November 14, 1996 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Jack Burge, a Navy veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Burge talks about the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), Saigon, French Indo-China (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Contributed on 9/4/20 by compgenie.hp
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