From Bataan to safety : the rescue of 104 American soldiers in the Philippines / Malcolm Decker.
Title
From Bataan to safety : the rescue of 104 American soldiers in the Philippines / Malcolm Decker.
Subject
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
Fassoth, Bill, 1890-1957.
Fassoth, Martin, 1890-1982.
Prisoner-of-war escapes--Philippines--History--20th century.
Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.
Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Description
Extensively researched account of the camp set up by the twins Bill and Martin Fassoth, in the Zambales mountains.
The author, a Vietnam War veteran and son of one of the Bataan veterans saved by the Fassoths, narrates the start of the war in Clark Field, the Bataan campaign and the beginning of the Death March. He gives details of the Americans who escaped the march and were cared for by the Fassoth brothers and Bill’s Filipina wife Catalina.
The Fassoths were sugar planters in Luzon, and used their own money and resources to shelter these American escapees. The Japanese raided the camp’s surroundings several times, narrowly missing the camp itself. The Japanese were finally able to force the Fassoths to give up, and the escapees were placed in prison camps, where many died. Decker painstakingly recreates the story of the camp, the guerrilla resistance movement in the camp’s environs, and the fates of the key actors.
Appendices provide lists of those aided by the Fassoths, and their fates. The Fassoths themselves were awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US government after the war.
The author, a Vietnam War veteran and son of one of the Bataan veterans saved by the Fassoths, narrates the start of the war in Clark Field, the Bataan campaign and the beginning of the Death March. He gives details of the Americans who escaped the march and were cared for by the Fassoth brothers and Bill’s Filipina wife Catalina.
The Fassoths were sugar planters in Luzon, and used their own money and resources to shelter these American escapees. The Japanese raided the camp’s surroundings several times, narrowly missing the camp itself. The Japanese were finally able to force the Fassoths to give up, and the escapees were placed in prison camps, where many died. Decker painstakingly recreates the story of the camp, the guerrilla resistance movement in the camp’s environs, and the fates of the key actors.
Appendices provide lists of those aided by the Fassoths, and their fates. The Fassoths themselves were awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US government after the war.
Creator
Decker, Malcolm, 1946-
Publisher
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.
Date
2008
Format
23 x 16 cm.
Type
Softbound
Identifier
9780784433964
Call Number
D 767.4 .D39 2008
Accession Number
15281
Pagination
ix, 222 p.
Illustration
ill.
Files
Collection
Citation
Decker, Malcolm, 1946- , “From Bataan to safety : the rescue of 104 American soldiers in the Philippines / Malcolm Decker.,” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed December 9, 2025, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/826.