Box 3
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Evacuation of POWs, USS Chenango, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945
File — Box: 3, Folder: 49
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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1981-001, Cruiser Houston Collection
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Photographs
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POW Experience
Dates:
Other: 1945
Scope and Contents
The aircraft carrier USS Chenango evacuated approximately 1,900 Allied POWs from Japan.
Caption on white card: "Group photo of Navy and Marine personnel aboard jeep carrier USS Chenango in Nagasaki, Japan, Sept., 1945."
Inscription on back: 1st Row: 1) McFarland MC, 2) Voght, 3) Castro, 4) Fergeson, 5) Benel, 2nd Row: 1) Quick MC, 2) Weeks, 3) Krekan, 4) Wilker, 5) Wampler, 6) Warkin, 3rd Row: 1) Battles MC, 2) Detre, 3) Hurd, 4) Bukowsky MC "