Honor courage faith : a Corregidor story / Stephen A. Kwiecinski.

Honor courage faith : a Corregidor story / Stephen A. Kwiecinski.

Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.

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

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

Kwiecinski, Walter Finch, 1914-1988.

Several stories in one: the first-person account of the author’s father, Staff Sgt Walter Finch, who was a member of the 59th Coast Artillery Regiment in Battery Way on Corregidor (which fired the last shot in the siege); the author reconstructs his father’s story through interviews with his father, trips to Corregidor and interviews with veterans of Corregidor (including two from his father’s battery) and POW survivors. In so doing he also talks about the veterans themselves, memorial trips and eventually settling down in Corregidor as a full-time resident. The highlight of Sgt Finch’s career was in firing the last mortar against the Japanese, and for this he is commemorated in Corregidor.

The book deals at length with the POW experiences under the Japanese, including the hell ship Canadian Inventor.

Kwiecinski, Stephen A.

Manila : Published and exclusively distributed by Anvil Pub., c2012.

2012

23 x 15 cm.

English

Softbound

9789712726293

D 805 .P5 K85 2012

16629

xvii, 180 p.

ill.