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Title

  • Main Title Oral History Interview with Robert Brown, May 15, 2002

Creator

  • Interviewee: Brown, Robert
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Interviewer: Koehn, James
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Interviewer: Roberts, Virginia
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War
    Place of Publication: Fredericksburg, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2002-05-15

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Brown. Brown quit high school and joined the Army Air Corps in October, 1940. He was assigned as a medic to the 34th Pursuit Squadron and shipped to the Philippines in November, 1941. Brown describes the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the destruction of Clark Field outside Manila. He goes on to describe the fighting on Bataan during the early months of 1942. The 34th Pursuit Squadron lost most of its equipment, so Brown and many others were attached to the infantry and fought as infantrymen on Bataan. Brown then describes experiences along the way to Camp O'Donnell during the Bataan Death March. In June, 1942, Brown and other POWs were sent to Cabanatuan. He stayed there working in the ""Zero Ward"" until he was shipped to a slave labor camp in Mukden, Manchuria in October, 1942. There, he continued working in a medical ward. The Russians finally liberated the camp and Brown left China aboard the hospital ship USS Relief (AH-1) headed for Okinawa, then Manila. Finally, Brown made it back to the US, recovered in a hospital in California, was discharged and re-enlisted, making a career out of the militay.
  • Physical Description: 43 p.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: People - Individuals
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Military and War - Wars - World War II
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Interviews
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Oral histories
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Personal narratives
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Autobiographies
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Biographies
  • Keyword: WWII
  • Keyword: United States. Army. Air Corps. Pursuit Squadron, 34th
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines
  • Keyword: Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942
  • Keyword: Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942
  • Keyword: Prisoner of War
  • Keyword: Camp O'Donnell
  • Keyword: Cabanatuan (Philippines : Concentration camp)
  • Keyword: Mukden (Prisoner of war camp)
  • Keyword: USS Relief (AH-1)

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Relation

  • Oral History Interview with Robert Brown, May 15, 2002 - ark:/67531/metapth1607812

Collection

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection
    Code: NMPW
  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
    Code: NMPWA

Institution

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
    Code: NMPW

Rights

  • Rights License: by-nc-nd
  • Rights Statement: Commercial use is prohibited without permission from the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Resource Type

  • Text

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: OH00516
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1603999
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