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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,…
Remind me to tell you : a history of Major Harry J. Fleeger and his friends, POWs of the Japanese / John H. Bradley
This tells the story of a West Point graduate (1931) who was assigned to the 26th Cavalry (Philippine Scouts) in 1939, fought in the Philippine defense campaign, became a prisoner of war, and died on an unmarked Japanese prison ship.
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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…
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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Of rice and men : the story of Americans under the Rising Sun / edited by Major Calvin Ellsworth Chunn
Brief vignettes, personal accounts, diary entries and poems mostly relating to the difficulties of American prisoners of war under the Japanese. A few of the accounts deal with conditions in Bataan – the shortage of food – and the surrender, but the…
Silence of a soldier : the memoirs of a Bataan Death March survivor / [as told to] William J. Duggan
Bub Merrill was a high school graduate who was drafted into the US Army in 1941. Assigned to the 803rd Aviation Engineers, he was shipped to the Philippines and saw action less than a month after arrival, attacked while working at upgrading Del…
The hike into the sun : memoir of an American soldier captured on Bataan in 1942 and imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945 / Bernard T. FitzPatrick ; with John A. Sweetser III
Detailed personal account of the defense of Bataan, Death March and prisoner of war experiences of a young man whose memory remained clear through the years.
A radio operator in a tank of the 194th Tank Battalion, he describes action from inside…
A radio operator in a tank of the 194th Tank Battalion, he describes action from inside…
Guests of the son of heaven / by Robet C. Gaskill, in collaboration with Herbert R. Suess
Personal account of a US Army medical officer in the defense of the Philippines and through prison camp life.
Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and…
Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and…
Caged dragons : an American P.O.W. in WWII Japan / Robert E. Haney ; foreword by Senator John S. McCain, III
Haney joined the US Marines in 1938, in search of a different life; he was underage and lied about his age to get in. He was sent to China and became part of the “China Marines” – the 4th Marine Regiment. This regiment was sent to the Philippines on…
Hell and beyond : a diary of war and captivity / by Josiah Wistar Worthington ; compiled and edited by Frances Worthington Lipe
A different account of the war in the Philippines and subsequent imprisonment by the Japanese, in two ways: first, Worthington was a veterinarian and thus saw the Bataan campaign from that unusual perspective. He was involved in caring for the…