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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…
Doomed garrison : the Philippines (a POW story) / John R. Vance
Personal experiences of the Philippine defense campaign (1941-1942) from a different perspective: the author was the Finance officer of the US Army in the Philippines.
Col. Vance narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940, and his duties as…
Col. Vance narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940, and his duties as…
General Wainwright's story : the account of four years of humiliating defeat, surrender, and captivity / by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who paid the price of his country's unpreparedness ; edited by Robert Considine
Personal account (assisted by a journalist) of the commanding general of the US Armed Forces in the Philippines (USAFIP) who surrendered Corregidor – and the Philippines – in May 1942.
Briefly recounts conditions in the Philippines just before…
Briefly recounts conditions in the Philippines just before…
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…
Operations of Company L, 31st Infantry (Philippine Division) Battle of Layac Junction, Bataan, P. I., 6-7 January 1942 (Philippine Island campaign) : personal experiences of a Company Commander / Major Donald G. Thompson
Military monograph dealing with the operations of one American infantry company in the Battle of Layac Junction, January 6-7, 1942.
Based on the experience of the author, the commander of the company he describes, Thompson goes into detail on…
Based on the experience of the author, the commander of the company he describes, Thompson goes into detail on…
Operations of the Provisional Air Corps Regiment in the defense of Bataan Peninsula, P.I., 8 January-10 April 1942 (Philippine Islands Campaign) : personal experience of a platoon leader [manuscript] / 1st Lieut. Sheldon H. Mendelson
Author was an infantry officer assigned to a provisional unit created in Bataan. The unit was composed of mechanics and ground crew of the US Army Air Corps, who were made to fight as infantrymen on the ground rather than fight in the air, since US…
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…
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.…
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 fall of the Philippines / by Louis Morton
This is the official US Army history, originally published in 1953, detailing the campaign to defend the Philippines in 1941-1942.
Published just over a decade after the defeat took place, and when many key officers were still alive, this work…
Published just over a decade after the defeat took place, and when many key officers were still alive, this work…