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90 days of rice / by R. Jackson Scott
Personal account of a US Marine stationed at Cavite Navy Base just prior to the war. Scott narrates the unexpected start of the war for the Cavite Marines; the air raid on Cavite and subsequent abandonment of the base; combat on Bataan; escape to…
Civilians in World War II : one brief shining moment : an eyewitness history / edited by Jesselynn Garcia de la Cruz
This book is a collection of interview excerpts (and occasional quotes from published personal accounts) relating to personal experiences during World War II in the Philippines.
Almost all of the interviewees (“narrators” is the term used in the…
Almost all of the interviewees (“narrators” is the term used in the…
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…
Prisoners of the Japanese : POWs of World War II in the Pacific / Gavan Daws.
An important work covering the Allied prisoner of war experiences under the Japanese, making comparisons and pointing out commonalities, rather than narrating the experiences of individual POWs separately. He provides an overview to Japanese POW…
South to Bataan, north to Mukden : the prison diary of Brigadier General W. E. Brougher / D. Clayton James, editor ; foreword by General Harold K. Johnson
Publishes the diary of this very literate army general (he wrote poems and stories, many of which were published as separate books), from January 1943 until his liberation in September 1945.
The entire diary records daily life, rumors, hardships…
The entire diary records daily life, rumors, hardships…