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My time in hell : memoir of an American soldier imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II / by Andrew D. Carson
Personal account by an American who enlisted in early 1941 and was sent right away to the Philippines, where he was assigned to Corregidor. He was transferred to Fort Drum, “The Concrete Battleship”, where he spent the months under siege.
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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…
Triumphs and tragedies : Corregidor and its aftermath / Arthur B. Baker ; as told to J. Carlile Baker
Personal account of a young American who was drafted in 1941. He was shipped to the Philippines with other draftees, assigned to the 60th Coast Artillery Regiment on Corregidor, and manned his gun until the surrender in May 1942.
He narrates his…
He narrates his…
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…
We were next to nothing : an American POW's account of Japanese prison camps and deliverance in World War II / by Carl S. Nordin
War experiences of a young American who enlisted in the US Army in 1940, was shipped out to the Philippines in October 1941 and assigned to the Fifth Air Base Group.
He was in Mindanao when the war started, and tells of his hauling supplies…
He was in Mindanao when the war started, and tells of his hauling supplies…
Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.)
Personal account by an aircraft mechanic of the 91st Bombardment Squadron. He had enlisted in 1940, and was sent to the Philippines , arriving in Fort McKinley just two weeks before the war started. The squadron’s planes never arrived.
He…
He…
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…
Corregidor, from paradise to hell : true narrative of Ben Waldron, prisoner-of-war / by Ben D. Waldron and Emily Burneson
Waldron was a private and just 19 years old when the war started; he was a gunner in Battery Chicago, an anti-aircraft battery on Corregidor.
He narrates pre-war life on the island fortress; the start of the war; combat on Corregidor and fighting…
He narrates pre-war life on the island fortress; the start of the war; combat on Corregidor and fighting…