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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…
Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II : statistical history, personal narratives, and memorials concerning POWs in camps and on hellships, civilian internees, Asian slave laborers, and others captured in the Pacific theater / by Van Waterford
An important reference for any researcher interested in prisoners of war and civilian internees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War.
This book is a source of basic information and references on prisoners of war, Asian forced…
This book is a source of basic information and references on prisoners of war, Asian forced…
Captured honor : POW survival in the Philippines and Japan / Bob Wodnik
Written by a journalist, this book tells the story of several Americans (who lived in the American Northwest) who fought in the Philippines in 1942 and became prisoners of war.
Wodnik goes beyond telling the stories of fighting in the Philippines…
Wodnik goes beyond telling the stories of fighting in the Philippines…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…