Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 88
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these leaflets. A favored place they used to dump a
lot of this was in a place called Banpong. Banpong
is the switching terminal. The railroad's main trunk
line comes out of Bangkok, and it comes to Banpong.
Then there's a branch that branches off from Banpong
and goes down the Malay Peninsula to Singapore. Then
Banpong was the Thai terminus of the road that we
built. It went up to Kanachanaburi and on up through
Three Pagodas Pass. It crossed into Burma there at a
place called Three Pagodas Pass in the Uthai
Mountains and then went on down to Thanbyuzayat,
Burma, and then eventually to Molmein and Rangoon.
Jones : And so the Americans would drop these leaflets over
this facility you're talking about. Then I am going
to presume they were wanting to set up a paper
trail. It would seem logical they could just push
this information on to other people.
Pryor: They'd drop these leaflets. Banpong was about forty-
five kilometers from where we were, and you could
usually count on it, within an hour, that we would
have a copy of it in our camp and with an English
translation of what it would say. It would be
printed in Thai. Some of these people that worked
with the OSS and all would see that we got a copy of88
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/90/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.