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Ship of Ghosts - James D. Hornfischer [254]

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art painting by Tokushiro Kobayakawa (1942) depicting Battle of Sunda Strait (Naval Historical Center)

Inset painting by Oliver Houston (1942) of sinking Houston (Naval Historical Center)


Page Sixteen

Photograph of Rear Adm. William A. Glassford at Memorial Day gathering (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Photograph of Thousand Volunteers enlistment ceremony (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset reproduction of President Roosevelt’s Memorial Day message (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of Thousand Volunteers enlistment ceremony (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


PHOTO AND ART INSERT II


Page One

Artist’s rendering of life in Hintok Camp, Thailand (Sketches by John Wisecup, After the Battle: Hintok! By John Wisecup, Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset layout of Bicycle Camp (Sketch by Raymond Day)


Page Two

Background photograph of the new Houston (Naval Historical Center)

Inset photograph of Lt. (jg) Harold R. Rooks (Courtesy of Harold R. Rooks)

Inset photograph of Lt. Col. Blucher S. Tharp (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset portrait of Sgt. Luther Prunty (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset portrait of Lt. James Lattimore (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset portrait of Capt. Winthrop H. Rogers (Texas Military Forces Museum)


Page Three

Inset photograph of Capt. Samuel L. Lumpkin (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset photograph of Tech. Sgt. Jess Stanbrough (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset portrait of Brig. Arthur L. Varley (Courtesy of Linda Douglas)

Inset portrait of Sgt. Frank Fujita (Texas Military Forces Museum)

Inset photograph of the new USS Houston at Newport News shipyard (National Archives)


Page Four

Photograph of USS Pampanito (National Archives)

Artist’s rendering of the railway base camp at Thanbyuzayat, Burma (Sketch by Raymond Day; USS Houston Association)

Painting of atap hut interior (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


Page Five

Photograph of 55 Kilo Camp (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of Pfc. Jim Gee (Courtesy of Shirley Gee)

Photograph of unidentified Burma prisoners (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


Page Six

Background photograph of wooden railway trestle (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of cutting near Konyu (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Background photograph of finished railway (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of railway cutting (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


Page Seven

Photograph of aerial view of wooden and concrete bridges under attack (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of a U.S. B-24 Liberator (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Inset photograph of collapsed concrete bridge at Tamarkan (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)

Photograph of the concrete bridge at Tamarkan (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


Page Eight

Radio dispatch between OSS and Maj. Eben B. Bartlett (National Archives)

Inset photograph of Maj. Gen. William Donovan (OSS Records, NARA)


Page Nine

Radio dispatches between OSS and Maj. Eben B. Bartlett, Jr. (National Archives)

Inset photograph of Major Bartlett (OSS Records, NARA)


Page Ten

Background photograph of liberated railway POWs deplaning (Collection of Dorothy and Lloyd Willey)

Inset photograph of Major Bartlett with colleagues (OSS Records, NARA)


Page Eleven

Inset photograph of Col. John Coughlin and Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler (OSS Records, NARA)

Inset photograph of Epstein, Hamlin, and Maher (Cruiser Houston Collection, University of Houston Libraries)


Page Twelve

Background photograph of U.S. Air Transport Command C-47 landing at Rat Buri, Thailand

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