Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

Hooper, W. Carr (Weston Carr), 1903-1981

Prisoners of war

Prisoners of war -- United States

Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines)

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese

This personal narrative by Carr Hooper, written on his way home, details his experience in Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, Philippines where he and his wife Ruth Hooper were interned. It includes an account of the first American air raid in Manila on September 21, 1944. The camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was run by the Japanese military during World War II and housed over 3,000 internees from January 1942 until February 1945.

Hooper, W. Carr (Weston Carr), 1903-1981

Carr and Ruth Hooper Papers

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1945

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

jpg;

manuscripts (documents)

eng

Text

62611

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/62611

This transcription has been provided by WCU students Sarah Harden, Craig Hawley, Scott Hufham, Laura Patterson and Margaret Williams (MA English), whose annotated version is available at http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/listing.aspx?id=21496

2016-08-26

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Manila (Philippines)

14" x 8.5"(dimension)

28 pages(pages)

World War II in Southern Appalachia