Browse Items (34 total)
Sort by:
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…
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…
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…
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…
Prisoner of the rising sun : the lost diary of Brig. Gen. Lewis Beebe / edited by John M. Beebe ; introduction by Stanley L. Falk.
Then-Col. Lewis Charles Beebe was MacArthur’s chief supply officer in 1941; he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1942 and made chief of staff to General Wainwright, who took over when MacArthur departed from Corregidor for Australia.
He kept a…
He kept a…
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…
Our paradise : a GI's war diary / by Ernest Norquist.
Prisoner of war diary of a Scandinavian-American college graduate who was drafted into the US Army, made a corpsman and sent to the Philippines just before the war broke out. His first days in Fort McKinley were, he considered paradise – hence 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…
Too dead to die : a memoir of Bataan and beyond / Steve Raymond and Mike Pride.
Raymond was a sergeant with the 48th Materiel Squadron, a US Army Air Corps unit which arrived in the Philippines in November 1941. Without planes to support, he became an infantry sergeant and saw action in Bataan.
This book is his memoir,…
This book is his memoir,…
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…