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Bataan : only the beginning : true story of an American soldier imprisoned by the Imperial Japanese Army / by Earl R. Oatman
Personal account by an enlisted fighter pilot of the 34th Pursuit Squadron, who arrived in the Philippines on November 22, 1941. The squadron was assigned to Del Carmen field in Pampanga, and was equipped with old P-35 fighters. All the fighters were…
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…
Flashbacks : prisoner of war in the Philippines / T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts
Middleton was drafted in 1941 and sent to the Philippines as a member of the 803rd Engineer Battalion. He was at Del Carmen airfield when the war broke out, and was moved to Bataan to build airfields for planes that never came. He was among those who…