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Biographies of two brothers from Montana – Paul and James. Paul served with the Asiatic Fleet before the war, and saw service in China and with the Marines in Nicaragua; he had retired by the time the war began.

The younger brother, James (“Bud”)…

Betty Halsema Foley was the sister of journalist (and later US Foreign Service officer) James J. Halsema; her father, E.J. Halsema, was former mayor of Baguio. She documents her growing up in Baguio, studies in the US, teaching at Baguio’s Brent…

Personal memoir of young British woman born and raised in Shanghai before World War II. Her father was a promising American architect who returned to the US, abandoning his family; her mother a British subject, stayed on with Madeleine in Shanghai.…

Richard B. Lang was a US Air Corps private with the 19th Bomb Group at Clark Field when the war broke out. After the bombing, he was ordered together with other maintenance men to Del Monte Field in Mindanao, where he stayed until the surrender in…

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…

Personal memoir of a college student called to the colors in September 1941. Assigned to the 61st Infantry Regiment in Miag-ao, Iloilo as a company commander, Bernido recounts his experiences in combat in Mindanao, getting separated from his unit,…

This tells the story of a West Point graduate (1931) who was assigned to the 26th Cavalry (Philippine Scouts) in 1939, fought in the Philippine defense campaign, became a prisoner of war, and died on an unmarked Japanese prison ship.

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This slim book is the story of a hardy Filipino who became a professional soldier with the Philippine Scouts before World War II, and who continued on in the US Army after the war. Fernandez joined the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) in…

This book tells the story of Australians captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent for forced labor to Sandakan, North Borneo, in 1942.

In particular, the author focuses on one man, Major Rex Blow, of the Australian Army. He and seven others…

Autobiography of a Filipina who lived a sheltered life before the war. Her father was a rice plantation owner who was also a journalist. Her family owned the Commonwealth Advocate, a periodical which sought extension of the Commonwealth government’s…