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[News Script: Summary of world news]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about three armed Turkish men who have kidnapped an American Airman and South Vietnamese troops driving in Laos and burning an abandoned North Vietnamese training center and captured 400 bicycles and case of food.
Date: February 15, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Polo Castillo, Jr.]

Description: Photograph of LCpl Polo Castillo, Jr., 1st Motor Transport Battalion, 1st Marine Division in Phu Bai, Vietnam. He is holding a rifle while standing in front of a tent on a military base. The handwriting on the photo reads "Polo Castillo, Jr." and "Vietnam 1968."
Date: April 1968
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Polo Castillo, Jr. In Vietnam]

Description: Photograph of LCpl Polo Castillo, 1st Motor Transport Battalion, 1st Marine Division at Gia Le Combat Base, Vietnam. Polo is posing in front of a tower of sandbags and military structures. The back of the photograph reads, "The jacket I have on is a flak jacket which protects us from shrapnel or what have you. Can you see me wearing this heavy protective jacket, rifle, helmet + so on with this heat. Gia Le Combat Base, April-68. Your Loving Fiancee, Polo Castillo."
Date: April 1968
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Dirt Road in Okinawa]

Description: Photograph of a dirt road with military buildings to the left and right with a note written on the back that reads, "Pension Row, Butter Buildings, men and womens quarters, Okinawa 1949". "Dorothy" can also be seen on the back, written in pencil on the right side.
Date: 1949
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[News Script: Singleton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of American men who spend last Christmas in a Vietnamese prison camp are home.
Date: December 23, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with John W. Wisecup, July 28, 1987

Description: Interview with John Wisecup, a Marine Corps 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. Wisecup 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), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Changi Jail (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Date: July 28, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wisecup, John W.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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