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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…
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…
Surviving Bataan and beyond : Colonel Irvin Alexander's odyssey as a Japanese prisoner of war / edited by Dominic J. Caraccilo
Personal account of a middle-level officer in the USAFFE. Written shortly after the war when his memory was fresh, this account presents a unique point of view: that of a colonel first in Fort Stoltenberg, where he witnessed the Japanese attack on…
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…
He…
Doomed garrison : the Philippines (a POW story) / John R. Vance
Personal experiences of the Philippine defense campaign (1941-1942) from a different perspective: the author was the Finance officer of the US Army in the Philippines.
Col. Vance narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940, and his duties as…
Col. Vance narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940, and his duties as…
O'Donnell, Andersonville of the Pacific / John E. Olson
Important and definitive book on the prison camp at Camp O’Donnell, in Capas, Tarlac. This was the camp where the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor were incarcerated with the Filipinos separate from Americans. Thousands died due to disease and…
Prisoner of the rising sun : the lost diary of Brig. Gen. Lewis Beebe / edited by John M. Beebe ; introduction by Stanley L. Falk.
Then-Col. Lewis Charles Beebe was MacArthur’s chief supply officer in 1941; he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1942 and made chief of staff to General Wainwright, who took over when MacArthur departed from Corregidor for Australia.
He kept a…
He kept a…
Hell and beyond : a diary of war and captivity / by Josiah Wistar Worthington ; compiled and edited by Frances Worthington Lipe
A different account of the war in the Philippines and subsequent imprisonment by the Japanese, in two ways: first, Worthington was a veterinarian and thus saw the Bataan campaign from that unusual perspective. He was involved in caring for the…
Bunker's war : the World War II diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker / Paul D. Bunker ; edited by Col. Keith A. Barlow, U.S. Army
Col. Bunker was a West Point graduate (MacArthur’s classmate) and, in December 1941, commander of seaward defenses of Corregidor and its satellite harbor forts.
The diary begins on January 3, 1942, and covers the siege of Corregidor in detail.…
The diary begins on January 3, 1942, and covers the siege of Corregidor in detail.…
They refused to die : true stories about World War II heroes in the Philippines, 1941-1945 / Fidel L. Ongpauco ; illustrated with sketches by the author
Compilation of newspaper and magazine articles by Col. Ongpauco, a PC officer , Bataan veteran and keeper of the records at Camp O’Donnell.
The articles, vignettes about World War II incidents and personalities, mostly military, cover the defense…
The articles, vignettes about World War II incidents and personalities, mostly military, cover the defense…