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Hugh Zeigler papers, 1917-1951, Date acquired: 07/26/2001

 

Summary

Creator:
Zeigler, Hugh, 1917-2010
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Hugh Ziegler papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0300.

Background

Scope and content:

Hugh Zeigler served with the 454th Heavy Bomb Aviation Ordnance Company, handling and caring for bombs, during World War II in the Philippine Islands. He was captured there by the Japanese and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp. This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript conducted on January 6, 2000.

Biographical / historical:

Hugh Zeigler (1917-2010) was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1917. He was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps on June 23, 1941. With the 27th Bomb Group, Zeigler went to San Francisco to be shipped to the Philippines on the U.S.S. Coolidge. He unloaded WWI era equipment in the Philippines, and the U.S.S. Coolidge was sunk when it left. He survived until 1942 when the U.S. Army surrendered in Corregidor. He survived the Bataan Death March (and discusses it in detail), malaria, dysentery, and horrifying treatment. In 1943 he was shipped to Osaka and survived a typhoon. 200 American POW's were combined with British and Australian POWs (his POW # was 300), and he was taken to Camp Sacragimo, where he worked on the Osaka Ironworks and built corvette destroyers. Then in 1945, he was sent to Akinori, where he worked in a copper mining camp. He talked about group punishment and being a POW a month after the war ended.


Acquisition information:

Hugh Zeigler

donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

creator

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Hugh Ziegler papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0300.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA