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Survivor : a personal memoir of one soldier's experience in the battle for the Philippines, the Bataan death march, Japanese slave labor camps & escape from the Japanese hell ship, the Shinyo Maru / by John Playter
The title says it all: a personal account of a college graduate reserve officer who was called to active service in 1941 and sent to the Philippines.
He served with the 88th Field Artillery Regiment (Philippine Scouts) in Bataan. As a prisoner of…
He served with the 88th Field Artillery Regiment (Philippine Scouts) in Bataan. As a prisoner of…
The sea was my last chance : memoir of an American captured on Bataan in 1942 who escaped in 1944 and led the liberation of Western Mindanao / by Donald H. Wills ; with Reyburn W. Myers
Personal account of an officer with the 26th Cavalry Regiment on Bataan.
Wills begins his story with the last days on Bataan, where, in the day before the surrender, he had to be hospitalized. Spared from the Death March, he remained in the…
Wills begins his story with the last days on Bataan, where, in the day before the surrender, he had to be hospitalized. Spared from the Death March, he remained in the…
POW-83 : the powerful true story of what really happened to American prisoners of war in the Japanese death camps in the Philippines during World War II and of one man's struggle to survive at the hands of his brutal captors / by John W. Wallace
This book is the biography of Pfc. John Mackowski, who was drafted into the US Army in 1940, and sent to the Philippines to become a member of the 803rd Engineers. Half of the book covers his youth, training in the army, arrival and pre-war life in…