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Waiting for the enemy : defending Bataan to the limit of endurance / by Jaime L. Guerrero.
Personal account, by a Filipino reserve officer (University of the Philippines Reserve Officer Training Corps) assigned to the 88th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts), just after the outbreak of the war.
This is a unique memoir as it gives a…
This is a unique memoir as it gives a…
Corregidor : the nightmare in the Philippines / Eric Morris.
Researched account, based specially on interviews with survivors, not only on Corregidor but also Bataan and the Philippine defense campaign, as well as the Death March. An epilogue describes the horrors faced by the defenders after the surrender.…
Bataan : a survivor's story / by Gene Boyt with David L. Burch ; foreword by Gregory J.W. Urwin
Personal account of a young American ROTC officer, fresh from college, who is called to active duty and sent to the Philippines in 1941. Sent to Clark field as an engineering officer, he was there when it was bombed by the Japanese on December 8,…
Bataan death march : a soldier's story / by James Bollich ; foreword by Jesse Knowles
Personal account by an American college student who enlisted in reaction to the German expansion in Europe. He joined the US Army Air Corps, was assigned to the 27th Bomb Group and sent to the Philippines two weeks before the start of the war. The…
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…
Bataan diary / by [Paul] Ashton
Not a diary but a personal account of the defense of the Philippines and prisoner of war experience by a medical doctor in the army.
Ashton starts with describing pre-war Manila, printing his letters to his wife before the war, and then…
Ashton starts with describing pre-war Manila, printing his letters to his wife before the war, and then…
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…
Uncle Sim : the life and times of Simeon Marcos Valdez : World War II hero, lawyer, lawmaker, patriarch, uncle of two presidents / Melandrew T. Velasco
Coffee-table biography of a prominent Ilocano army officer, lawyer and legislator. He was the uncle of two Philippine Presidents (Ferdinand E. Marcos and Fidel V. Ramos), but notable on his own as a war hero who fought in Bataan, suffered in the…