Interview with Thelma W. Bensing, Elmer Bensing, Jr., June 24, 1985

Project: American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project

Interview Summary

-- served with the 192nd Tank Battalion in the Pacific Theatre; captured at Corregidor - on Bataan Death March; discusses hell ship voyage from Cabanatuan to Japan-- brutality of Japanese soldiers-- life as prisoner of war-- work details-- liberation from camp-- Nagasaki following the atomic bomb explosion-- returning to the United States; Thelma Bensing discusses the homefront-- reunion with husband following the end of the war

Interview Accession

1985oh142_ww018

Interviewee Name

Thelma W. Bensing

Elmer Bensing, Jr.

Interviewer Name

Arthur L. Kelly

Interview Date

1985-06-24

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Bensing, Thelma W. Interview by Arthur L. Kelly. 24 Jun. 1985. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Bensing, T.W. (1985, June 24). Interview by A. L. Kelly. American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Bensing, Thelma W., interview by Arthur L. Kelly. June 24, 1985, American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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