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More than meets the eye / Carl Mydans
Autobiography of the legendary "Life" magazine photographer. Mydans, with his wife, was on assignment to the Philippines in late 1941, covering defense preparations. They were caught by the war in Manila and interned at Santo Tomas; they were…
Horyo : memoirs of an American POW / Richard M. Gordon ; with the assistance of Benjamin S. Llamzon
Gordon enlisted in the US Army in 1940, and was sent to the Philippines to become a member of the 31st Infantry Regiment, US Army, in Manila.
A personal account, Gordon narrates his life in the army, conditions in the Philippines before the war…
A personal account, Gordon narrates his life in the army, conditions in the Philippines before the war…
POW-83 : the powerful true story of what really happened to American prisoners of war in the Japanese death camps in the Philippines during World War II and of one man's struggle to survive at the hands of his brutal captors / by John W. Wallace
This book is the biography of Pfc. John Mackowski, who was drafted into the US Army in 1940, and sent to the Philippines to become a member of the 803rd Engineers. Half of the book covers his youth, training in the army, arrival and pre-war life in…