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Oh, God, where are you? / Abie Abraham
Personal account (expansion of his earlier "Ghost of Bataan Speaks") of a Bataan combat veteran and American Prisoner of War.
Abraham was 28 years old when the war started, a sergeant in the US 31st Infantry Regiment. He saw combat in Bataan, the…
Abraham was 28 years old when the war started, a sergeant in the US 31st Infantry Regiment. He saw combat in Bataan, the…
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…
The Wainwright papers / edited by Col. Celedonio A. Ancheta with notes and comments
Publication of an important primary source: the basic Report of Operations of USAFFE [US Army Forces in the Far East] and USFIP [US Forces in the Philippines] in the Philippine Islands 1941-1942, by Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, and some of its…
December 8, 1941 : MacArthur's Pearl Harbor / William H. Bartsch
A thoroughly researched account of the events which led to, and which occurred on December 8, 1941, climaxing in the virtually unopposed Japanese attack on Clark Field, and the destruction of the majority of MacArthur’s bombed force.
Presents…
Presents…
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…
The operations of the 3rd Battalion, 45th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) at the hacienda at Mt. Natib, Luzon, 15-25 January, 1942 (The Bataan Campaign) : personal experience of a battalion executive officer [manuscript] / Major Louis B. Besbeck
Military monograph on the operations of a battalion in combat, from approach march to counter-attack, defense and withdrawal.
The 45th Infantry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) was one of two professionally trained infantry regiments on Luzon in…
The 45th Infantry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) was one of two professionally trained infantry regiments on Luzon in…
The operations of the II Philippine Corps on Bataan, 10 January - 8 April 1942 (Philippine Islands Campaign) : personal experience of a staff officer [manuscript] / Major Kary C. Emerson
This monograph describes the operations of a Corps (composed of several army divisions) in defense, specifically in the Battle of Bataan in 1942.
The II Corps was assigned to the east side of Bataan and was under the command of Maj. Gen. George…
The II Corps was assigned to the east side of Bataan and was under the command of Maj. Gen. George…
Reports of General MacArthur : the campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific [manuscript]
This series was first published by MacArthur’s headquarters in 1950, but was not made available until after MacArthur’s death in 1964.
Volume I, prepared by MacArthur’s staff under the direction of his chief of intelligence, Maj. Gen. Charles A.…
Volume I, prepared by MacArthur’s staff under the direction of his chief of intelligence, Maj. Gen. Charles A.…
The Philippine Constabulary in the battle of the Philippines, 1941 [manuscript] / Major Carlos J. Herrera
Military monograph depicting employment of Philippine Constabulary in Battle of Bataan, showing the necessity for advanced and thorough planning in employing a similar police force in similar operations in the future.
The author was a PC officer…
The author was a PC officer…
The operations and movements of the 31st Infantry Regiment (Philippine Division), 7 December 1941-9 April 1942 (Philippine Island Campaign) : personal experience of a regimental S-4 [manuscript] / Major Everett V. Mead
Military monograph dealing with the operations and movements of the 31st Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, on Luzon and Bataan during the Philippine defense campaign, 1941-1942. Author was Regimental S-4, or logistics staff officer; as such this…