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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…
Flashbacks : prisoner of war in the Philippines / T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts
Middleton was drafted in 1941 and sent to the Philippines as a member of the 803rd Engineer Battalion. He was at Del Carmen airfield when the war broke out, and was moved to Bataan to build airfields for planes that never came. He was among those who…
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…
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…
Life--on rice / by Donald L. Baker
Personal account by a young American who wanted to see the world, so he joined the US Army in 1940. He was assigned to Corregidor. He gives a brief account of life on the island before the war (which did not appeal to all) and the beginning of 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…
Memoirs of a barbed wire surgeon / by Elmer Shabart M.D., F.A.C.S.
Personal account of a doctor who was called to service in 1941, ostensibly for one year. Instead of that one year, he was shipped to the Philippines and became a prisoner of war when Bataan fell. After two years in Philippine camps, he was moved to…
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…
Of rice and men / by T/Sgt. Bob Reynolds
Personal memoir by a sergeant in the 34th Pursuit Squadron, based at Del Carmen field. He narrates his experiences in the airfield at the start of the war, in Bataan, in the Death March. He was spared much of the agony in the bigger prison camps when…