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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…
Prisoner of hope / by Jesse L. Miller
Personal account of a young American who enlisted in the Air Corps after graduating from high school. He was assigned to the Philippines and attached to the 20th Pursuit Squadron in Clark Field when the war broke out.
He narrates his experiences…
He narrates his experiences…
The hike into the sun : memoir of an American soldier captured on Bataan in 1942 and imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945 / Bernard T. FitzPatrick ; with John A. Sweetser III
Detailed personal account of the defense of Bataan, Death March and prisoner of war experiences of a young man whose memory remained clear through the years.
A radio operator in a tank of the 194th Tank Battalion, he describes action from inside…
A radio operator in a tank of the 194th Tank Battalion, he describes action from inside…
They fought with what they had : the story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 / by Walter D. Edmonds ; with an introduction by George C.Kenney ; map sketches by the author
Saga of the US Army Air Force in the Philippines and immediate surroundings, including the Netherlands East Indies and Australia, during the first six months of war in the Pacific.
The first half of the book deals with the 12th-hour reinforcement…
The first half of the book deals with the 12th-hour reinforcement…
Benjamin Charles Steele : prisoner of war : an exhibition of eighty drawings and three paintings... / edited, with an introduction by Alan Newbert ; essay by James Todd ; captions by Shirley Steele with Benjamin C. Steele
An exhibition catalog which features the drawings of a Montana cowboy who joined the Air Corps to escape the hardship of the Great Depression. He wound up in the Philippines, and was at Clark Field when the war started. He fought in Bataan and became…