Correspondence

This book compiles the letters of an American military doctor assigned to the Philippines in May 1941. These letters were written to his family in the States and describe life in Fort McKinley and Nichols airfield (he was a flight surgeon) before the…

Frank Cary was an American missionary to Japan, born of missionaries serving in Japan since the 1880s. He and his wife were stationed in Hokkaido when the threat of war brought them to Davao, to continue the mission (his wife and children were in the…

Gen. Lim was the first Filipino to graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point, and rose to become deputy chief of staff of the Philippine Army during the Commonwealth years just before World War II. When USAFFE was mobilized, Lim became the…