Flashbacks : prisoner of war in the Philippines / T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts

Flashbacks : prisoner of war in the Philippines / T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts

Middleton, T. Walter, 1918-.

Prisoners of war--Japan--Biography.

Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines.

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

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

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 had to surrender in April 1942, went on the Death March and endured the horrors of Camp O’Donnell. He was sent with a detachment of Japanese and other POWs to the mountains of northern Luzon, before being sent to Korea on board a prison ship and on to Mukden, Manchuria. There he worked for the Japanese under threat of death. After being released at the end of the war, his troubles continued when he and other prisoners were locked up in a psychiatric ward in the US, where several went crazy or were injured. Only after some time were they treated decently, after the army tried to cover up what had happened. His memoirs bring out the best and the worst in man that he had personally seen.

Middleton, T. Walter, 1918-

Alexander, NC : Alexander Books, c2000

2000

23 x 16 cm.

Softbound

1570900973

D 805 .P6 M53 2000

14066

192 p.

ill., maps