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Remind me to tell you : a history of Major Harry J. Fleeger and his friends, POWs of the Japanese / John H. Bradley
This tells the story of a West Point graduate (1931) who was assigned to the 26th Cavalry (Philippine Scouts) in 1939, fought in the Philippine defense campaign, became a prisoner of war, and died on an unmarked Japanese prison ship.
Based on…
Based on…
Surviving the day : an American POW in Japan / Frank J. Grady & Rebecca Dickson
Frank Grady (a Captain at that time) was with the US Army’s cryptographic department in the Philippines in 1941 until the surrender of Corregidor. He was responsible for encoding and decoding all the important messages sent to and from Manila and…
Caged dragons : an American P.O.W. in WWII Japan / Robert E. Haney ; foreword by Senator John S. McCain, III
Haney joined the US Marines in 1938, in search of a different life; he was underage and lied about his age to get in. He was sent to China and became part of the “China Marines” – the 4th Marine Regiment. This regiment was sent to the Philippines on…
Courage on Bataan and beyond : memories of an American POW who was a slave of the Japanese during WWII for 3 1/2 years / by Abel Ortega, Jr. ; foreword by Duane Heisinger.
Account of an American Bataan veteran and POW as recorded and written by his son. Abel Sr. was in the 192nd Tank Battalion which was sent to the Philippines just before war broke out. He talks briefly about his experiences in the defense of the…
Journey through hell : memoir of a World War II American navy medic captured in the Philippines & imprisoned by the Japanese / by Loren E. Stamp ; with a foreword by Robert Thompson
The author of this book was a US Navy Pharmacist’s Mate assigned to Cañacao Naval Hospital in Cavite and slated to return to the US on December 8, 1941.
The outbreak of war cancelled his orders, and instead he stayed on in the Philippines,…
The outbreak of war cancelled his orders, and instead he stayed on in the Philippines,…
Silence of a soldier : the memoirs of a Bataan Death March survivor / [as told to] William J. Duggan
Bub Merrill was a high school graduate who was drafted into the US Army in 1941. Assigned to the 803rd Aviation Engineers, he was shipped to the Philippines and saw action less than a month after arrival, attacked while working at upgrading Del…
Too dead to die : a memoir of Bataan and beyond / Steve Raymond and Mike Pride.
Raymond was a sergeant with the 48th Materiel Squadron, a US Army Air Corps unit which arrived in the Philippines in November 1941. Without planes to support, he became an infantry sergeant and saw action in Bataan.
This book is his memoir,…
This book is his memoir,…
Cabanatuan : Japanese death camp : a survivors story / by Vince Taylor
Account of Private First Class John Allen McCarty, a New Mexican who was part of the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft), sent to the Philippines on the eve of the war.
Assigned to protect Clark Field, and later Bataan, from enemy…
Assigned to protect Clark Field, and later Bataan, from enemy…
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…
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…