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Personal account by a US Army Air Corps pilot with the 2nd Observation Squadron in Nichols Field where his plane was ruined on the first day of the war.

Sneddon focuses on his experiences as a prisoner of war, with very little on his experiences…

Important personal account of an American intelligence operative sent by submarine to Samar in 1943. Stahl was in his early 20s when he volunteered for service with the US Army; he was sent to Brisbane, Australia, and was assigned to the 978th Signal…

This volume presents extracts of interviews conducted by the editors of American veterans who were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Asia and the Pacific in 1941-1942.

Fifty two interviews were chosen out of some one hundred and fifty, and of…

A personal account of a young American who joined the US Army Air Corps to escape the Depression in the US. Assigned to the 2nd Observation Squadron in Clark Field, he describes pre-war life on and off the base; the move to Nichols Field, the coming…

Personal account by one of the eleven US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in 1942.

Danner became a Navy nurse in 1937, was sent to the Philippines in 1940, and saw the destruction of Cavite Navy Yard by Japanese planes from nearby Cañacao…

War experiences of a young American who enlisted in the US Army in 1940, was shipped out to the Philippines in October 1941 and assigned to the Fifth Air Base Group.

He was in Mindanao when the war started, and tells of his hauling supplies…

Partly a personal memoir and a researched account, this work compiles the experiences of both Americans and Filipinos in the defense of the Philippines and the Japanese occupation, giving emphasis on the prisoner of war ordeal.

Villarin was one…

Personal account of a West Point graduate and professional US Army officer sent to the Philippines in 1940.

Assigned as senior US instructor to the mobilizing 11th Infantry Regiment, Volckmann describes the problems the regiment faced in…