Diaries

South to Bataan, north to Mukden : the prison diary of Brigadier General W. E. Brougher / D. Clayton James, editor ; foreword by General Harold K. Johnson

Publishes the diary of this very literate army general (he wrote poems and stories, many of which were published as separate books), from January 1943 until his liberation in September 1945.

The entire diary records daily life, rumors, hardships…

Bunker's war : the World War II diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker / Paul D. Bunker ; edited by Col. Keith A. Barlow, U.S. Army

Col. Bunker was a West Point graduate (MacArthur’s classmate) and, in December 1941, commander of seaward defenses of Corregidor and its satellite harbor forts.

The diary begins on January 3, 1942, and covers the siege of Corregidor in detail.…

USAFFE, the loyal Americans and faithful Filipinos : a saga of atrocities perpetrated during the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and Japanese imprisonment and survival / by Alvin C. Poweleit.

Wartime diary of the American Surgeon of the Provisional Tank Group, from arrival in the Philippines through the battles for the defense of the Philippines, the Death March, prisoner of war experiences and liberation.

Poweleit was a reserve…

Bataan diary / James L. Rand ; recorded by Willard Rand and Paul Rand

Personal diary of an American soldier, who volunteered for duty at the age of 28.

His diary covers his army life, from training, shipping out to the Philippines, pre-war life in Manila, through the outbreak of war and the battle of Bataan. Rand…

The Brereton diaries : the war in the air in the Pacific, Middle East and Europe, 3 October 1941 - 8 May 1945 / by Lewis H. Brereton

Lt. Gen. Brereton was the commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philippines in 1941, a major part of the US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). He arrived to command the newly created air command, which was rapidly expanding in the months…

Philippines defender : a fighter pilot's diary / by David L. Obert

Then Lieutenant Obert was a P-40 fighter pilot in the 17th Pursuit Squadron based in Nichols Field at the outbreak of the war.

Obert’s diary covers the day the war started through April 1942; he details his missions and his squadron’s operations…

Dear Mother Putnam : a diary of the Second World War in the Philippines / by Marcial P. Lichauco

One of the first diaries published after the war detailing life in occupied Manila, the first edition of this book came out around 1949.

This remains one of the most important sources on Manila during the Japanese occupation; Lichauco was a…

No place for kindness : the prisoner of war diary of Roy L. Bodine.

Dr. Bodine was a major in the US Army Dental Corps who served in Bataan. With the surrender on April 9, 1942, he became a prisoner of war. He kept a detailed diary, which was against Japanese regulations and could have led to his death if found.…

Forbidden diary : a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945 / Natalie Crouter ; edited with an introd. by Lynn Z. Bloom ; with drawings by Daphne Bird.

The author was an American woman who was staying in Baguio when the war broke out. Her husband sold insurance to American miners; Mrs. Crouter kept herself busy by raising funds for the Chinese and other social activities.

Crouter began her diary…

Surviving the rising sun : [my family's years in a Japanese POW camp] / by Liz Lautzenhiser Irvine and Debbie Irvine Hammack

Experiences of the author and her siblings (all young Americans) in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, told through diary entries and letters, illustrated with many photographs. Large format book.

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