We remember Bataan and Corregidor : the story of the American & Filipino defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and their captivity / Mariano Villarin

We remember Bataan and Corregidor : the story of the American & Filipino defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and their captivity / Mariano Villarin

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Bataan (Province).

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Corregidor Island.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

Partly a personal memoir and a researched account, this work compiles the experiences of both Americans and Filipinos in the defense of the Philippines and the Japanese occupation, giving emphasis on the prisoner of war ordeal.

Villarin was one of the Defenders of Bataan and moved to the US after the war. There, he was able to talk and correspond with other veterans, using these bits of information in this book. Villarin also discusses life in the pre-war Philippines to sharpen the contrast between war and peace. Villarin’s wartime experiences were more unique than others, as he was one of those selected to go to Japan to study as a pensionado in 1943. As a Bureau of Constabulary officer under the Japanese, he was sent to Tokyo where he saw the war from another perspective. Villarin concludes with the end of the war and the birth of the Philippine republic.

An important source book in that it presents many first person accounts from different perspectives, both Filipino and American.

Villarin, Mariano.

Baltimore, MD : Gateway Press, 1990

1990

24 x 16 cm.

Hardbound

962612707

D 767.4 .V55 1990

13604

xvii, 335 p.

ill., maps