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Nurse recalls wartime captivity in Manila POW camp
San Antonio nurse Dorothy Davis Thompson, now 96, recalls New Year’s Day 1942 when Japanese forces captured Manila and she endured Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Her story, chronicled in The Road Back, underscores the fading access to veteran oral histories as years pass. The article notes ITC efforts to preserve WWII narratives and urges families to record memories before they vanish.
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San Antonio
Manila
Philippines
Dorothy Davis Thompson
McCray
Veterans Affairs Department
Ested
Haxen
Institute of Texan Cultures
Sarah Gould
ITC
Gould
Lee Dunkelberg