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Terry : the inspiring story of a little girl’s survival as a POW during WWII / Terry Wadsworth Warne.
Personal account of an American girl (seven years old when the war broke out), who was with her parents in Del Monte, Mindanao at the outbreak of the war (the author’s father worked with California Packing Co., exporting pineapples).
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Amid th' encircling gloom : Corregidor and survival / Al McGrew, with Paul Whitman
Detailed personal account of an American enlisted man who served as a machine gunner (Battery H, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment) near Battery Ramsay in Corregidor during the siege. Details his joining the army, assignment to Corregidor in April 1941,…
Samurai! / by Saburo Sakai ; with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito.
Personal account of Japan’s top surviving fighter ace, with a total number of 64 kills to his credit. As an experienced Zero fighter pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Sakai had his baptism of fire in China, where he shot down his first enemy…
Bride of war : my mother’s World War II memories / [compiled by] Teresita Gimenez Maceda.
Account of the author’s war experiences, a young woman who married an army officer just prior to the start of the war.
A native of Cebu, she recounts (with the aid of the author) the shock at the start of the war, difficulties faced in evading…
A native of Cebu, she recounts (with the aid of the author) the shock at the start of the war, difficulties faced in evading…
Waiting for the enemy : defending Bataan to the limit of endurance / by Jaime L. Guerrero.
Personal account, by a Filipino reserve officer (University of the Philippines Reserve Officer Training Corps) assigned to the 88th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts), just after the outbreak of the war.
This is a unique memoir as it gives a…
This is a unique memoir as it gives a…