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Back from the living dead : an original story describing the infamous march of death, 33 months in a Japanese prison and liberation by the rangers / by Major [Bertram] Bank
Personal account of the Death March and prison camp experiences (Camp O’Donnell; Davao Penal Colony; Cabanatuan). Maj. Bank was one of those liberated by the US Army Rangers and guerrillas in January 1945.
An air corps officer who later was…
An air corps officer who later was…
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…
Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.)
Personal account by an aircraft mechanic of the 91st Bombardment Squadron. He had enlisted in 1940, and was sent to the Philippines , arriving in Fort McKinley just two weeks before the war started. The squadron’s planes never arrived.
He…
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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…
Corregidor, from paradise to hell : true narrative of Ben Waldron, prisoner-of-war / by Ben D. Waldron and Emily Burneson
Waldron was a private and just 19 years old when the war started; he was a gunner in Battery Chicago, an anti-aircraft battery on Corregidor.
He narrates pre-war life on the island fortress; the start of the war; combat on Corregidor and fighting…
He narrates pre-war life on the island fortress; the start of the war; combat on Corregidor and fighting…
Our paradise : a GI's war diary / by Ernest Norquist.
Prisoner of war diary of a Scandinavian-American college graduate who was drafted into the US Army, made a corpsman and sent to the Philippines just before the war broke out. His first days in Fort McKinley were, he considered paradise – hence the…
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…
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…
Of rice and men / by T/Sgt. Bob Reynolds
Personal memoir by a sergeant in the 34th Pursuit Squadron, based at Del Carmen field. He narrates his experiences in the airfield at the start of the war, in Bataan, in the Death March. He was spared much of the agony in the bigger prison camps when…
Guest of the emperor : 1941 to 1945 in the Philippines, surviving the war, and as a POW, Bataan death march, Cabanatuan, Davao Penal Colony, the “Hell Ships” / William D. Chalek
Chalek was a pilot in the 2nd Observation Squadron, Far East Air Force, based in Nichols Field, when the war started. He describes flying reconnaissance missions in the early days of the war, and the difficulties encountered; he was in Bataan during…
Captured on Corregidor : diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II / by John M. Wright, Jr.
Personal memoir of a professional US Army officer (a West Point graduate) who was an artillery officer on Corregidor. He begins his story with the surrender, and early days in Camp O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. He and several other prisoners from…