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Rainbow over the Philippines / by James M. Hamilton.
Short personal account covering the author’s experiences with the 200th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment, assignment to the 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment in the defense of Clark Field, Manila and Bataan; the Death March and…
Guests of the son of heaven / by Robet C. Gaskill, in collaboration with Herbert R. Suess
Personal account of a US Army medical officer in the defense of the Philippines and through prison camp life.
Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and…
Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and…
The battling bastards of Bataan / Mel Sheya
Personal account of a “China Marine” – a marine with the 4th Marine Regiment, which was transferred from China to Subic just before the war started. During the Japanese onslaught, the regiment – and Sheya – were placed on beach defense in Corregidor…
Life--on rice / by Donald L. Baker
Personal account by a young American who wanted to see the world, so he joined the US Army in 1940. He was assigned to Corregidor. He gives a brief account of life on the island before the war (which did not appeal to all) and the beginning of the…
Freedom! : Bataan, POW, PVT / Don T. Schloat
Schloat joined the army medical corps in July 1941, partly to be able to live on his own and also partly to escape the war in Europe; he was immediately sent to the Philippines and was assigned to the station hospital at Fort McKinley. When USAFFE…
Lost in action : a World War II soldier's account of capture on Bataan and imprisonment by the Japanese / by Dick Bilyeu
Personal account by a coast artilleryman who began the war on Fort Hughes (Caballo Island), only to be transferred to Bataan as infantry, attached to a Philippine Army unit. He fought in the Battle of the Points, and saw action in the final battles…
Triumphs and tragedies : Corregidor and its aftermath / Arthur B. Baker ; as told to J. Carlile Baker
Personal account of a young American who was drafted in 1941. He was shipped to the Philippines with other draftees, assigned to the 60th Coast Artillery Regiment on Corregidor, and manned his gun until the surrender in May 1942.
He narrates his…
He narrates his…
Parade of the dead : a U.S. Army physician's memoir of imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945 / by John R. Bumgarner, M.D. ; illustrations by Doris B. Hayes
Personal account of a U.S Army doctor, beginning with his medical training in the US. A reserve officer, he was called to active duty in 1940, and sent to the Philippines, arriving in February 1941.
He writes about Manila and the Sternberg…
He writes about Manila and the Sternberg…
Corregidor : oasis of hope / by Asbury L. Nix
Personal account supplemented by readings and interviews with other survivors, this memoir is well founded.
Nix did his own readings and research to confirm his own memories. He does not discuss pre-war life or even the early days of the war, but…
Nix did his own readings and research to confirm his own memories. He does not discuss pre-war life or even the early days of the war, but…
The sea was my last chance : memoir of an American captured on Bataan in 1942 who escaped in 1944 and led the liberation of Western Mindanao / by Donald H. Wills ; with Reyburn W. Myers
Personal account of an officer with the 26th Cavalry Regiment on Bataan.
Wills begins his story with the last days on Bataan, where, in the day before the surrender, he had to be hospitalized. Spared from the Death March, he remained in the…
Wills begins his story with the last days on Bataan, where, in the day before the surrender, he had to be hospitalized. Spared from the Death March, he remained in the…