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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…
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…
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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…
And somebody gives a damn! : a prison camp Quan / assembled by the following P.O.W.s and cooked up by Capt. Paul Ashton
Subtitle on the title page reads: “A prison camp Quan assembled by the following P.O.W.s and cooked by Capt. Paul Ashton, M.C. with fond memories. To describe a war and its consequences, so that, the curiosity of those born since can know what it is…
1220 days : the story of U.S. Marine Edmond Babler and his experiences in Japanese prisoner of war camps during World War II / [edited] by Robert C. Daniels
This book is actually the personal memoir of Edmond Babler, which Daniels edited and annotated.
Babler joined the US Marine Corps during the years of the Great Depression in the US, and was sent to China to join the 4th Marine Regiment. The 4th…
Babler joined the US Marine Corps during the years of the Great Depression in the US, and was sent to China to join the 4th Marine Regiment. The 4th…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…