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Rock Force

Author : Kevin Maurer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524744778
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Rock Force written by Kevin Maurer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of No Easy Day comes a thrilling World War II story of the American airborne soldiers who captured a Japanese-held island fortress “Rock Force is a beautifully told story of war: the friendships, the courage and despair, and the terror... One of the most exciting books ever written about the Pacific War.”—Mitch Weiss, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Countdown 1945 In late December 1941, General Douglas MacArthur, caught off guard by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, is forced to retreat to Corregidor, a jagged, rocky island fortress at the mouth of Manila Bay. Months later, under orders from the president, the general is whisked away in the dark of night, leaving his troops to their fate. It is a bitter pill for a fiercely proud warrior who has always protected his men. He famously declares "I shall return," but the humiliation of Corregidor haunts him, even earning him the derisive nickname "Dugout Doug." In early 1945, MacArthur returns to the Philippines, his eyes firmly fixed on Corregidor. To take back the island, he calls on the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, a highly trained veteran airborne unit. Their mission is to jump onto the island—hemmed in by sheer cliffs, pockmarked by bomb craters, bristling with deadly spiky broken tree trunks—and wrest it from some 6,700 Japanese defenders who await, fully armed and ready to fight to the death. Drawn from firsthand accounts and personal interviews with the battle's surviving veterans, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Kevin Maurer delves into this extraordinary tale, uncovering astonishing accounts of bravery and heroism during an epic, yet largely forgotten, clash of the Pacific War. Here is an intimate story of uncommon soldiers showing uncommon courage and winning, through blood and sacrifice, the redemption of General MacArthur.

Retaking the Philippines

Author : William B. Breuer
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312907884
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Retaking the Philippines written by William B. Breuer and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume on the liberation of the Philippines that concentrates on events from July 1944 through March 1945.

Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, 1945

Author : E.M. Flanagan, Jr.
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307826384
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, 1945 written by E.M. Flanagan, Jr. and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The two-week battle for Corregidor was complicated by the American's gross underestimation of enemy strength: expecting a few hundred demoralized defenders, they encountered more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers and marines deployed in tunnels and caves, every man dedicated to the Bushido code that dictated a fight to the death. As the dust was settling, MacArthur himself came ashore and was greeted by the commander of the victorious U.S. Army troops. 'Sir, ' said Col. George Jones, 'I present to you the Fortress Corregidor' -- a stirring conclusion to a dramatic and well-told story". -- Publishers Weekly

Back to Corregidor

Author : Gerard M. Devlin
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312076481
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Book Synopsis Back to Corregidor by : Gerard M. Devlin

Download or read book Back to Corregidor written by Gerard M. Devlin and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the first successful island airborne attack during World War II describes how outnumbered American parachute and amphibious troops retook the strategic island stronghold of the Philippines in 1945.

American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898–1945

Author : Mark Berhow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782004351
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898–1945 by : Mark Berhow

Download or read book American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898–1945 written by Mark Berhow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippines were declared an American Territory on January 4, 1899, and fortification construction soon began on the islands in the mouth of Manila Bay. Among the sites built were Fort Mills (Corregidor), Fort Frank, and the formidable "concrete battleship" of Fort Drum. The defenses suffered constant Japanese bombardment during World War II, leading to the surrender of American forces. In 1945 the forts were manned by Japanese soldiers determined to hold out to the bitter end. This title details the fortifications of this key strategic location, and considers both their effectiveness and historical importance.

Escape from Corregidor

Author : Edgar D. Whitcomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359267890
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Corregidor written by Edgar D. Whitcomb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from Corregidor is the harrowing account of Edgar Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator who arrives in World War II Philippines just before its invasion by the Japanese. Whitcomb evades the enemy on Bataan by fleeing to Corregidor Island in a small boat. He is captured but later manages to escape at night in an hours-long swim to safety. Captured once again weeks later, Whitcomb is imprisoned, tortured and starved, before being transferred to China and eventual freedom.

Undefeated

Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439199655
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Undefeated written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers—and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrender came the infamous Bataan Death March, where up to eighteen thousand American and Filipino prisoners died as they marched sixty-five miles under the most hellish conditions imaginable. Interwoven throughout this gripping narrative are the harrowing personal experiences of dozens of American soldiers, airmen, and Marines, based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors. Undefeated chronicles one of the great sagas of World War II—and celebrates a resounding triumph of the human spirit.

We Remember Bataan and Corregidor

Author : Mariano Villarin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book We Remember Bataan and Corregidor written by Mariano Villarin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marshals of Napoleon I … constituted what is probably the most brilliant array of military genius the world has ever seen. All Europe was prostrate before them. Any book which sheds light upon their personalities and accomplishments is a genuine contribution to French history….Boston Transcript. Thoroughly documented, a work of really immense scholarship, this book is also the treatise of an experienced and seasoned military man.Independent. [Phipps'] criticism of strategy and tactics is always intelligent and to the point, so that he contributes something new to the campaigns with which he deals even though his main interest in them is with the careers of the future marshals.Times [London] Literary Supplement

Corregidora

Author : Gayl Jones
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807096989
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Corregidora written by Gayl Jones and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1987-02-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.

Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor, and Northern Luzon

Author : Marcus Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor, and Northern Luzon written by Marcus Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alibris: A pictorial history of the American men & women who became Japanese POWs with the surrender of the Philippines. It contains 1800+ individual photos with biographies, numerous unit group, & candid photos of before, during, & after imprisonment, maps & alphabetical & unit indexes. It is also a valuable genealogical source. Those who were Japanese POWs treasure it for the memories it recalls & it is a source of information & pride for families of POWs who did not survive or are not now living. A WWII chronology helps those who did not live through the war to better understand wartime events.

An Island Dies

Author : Albert Caron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book An Island Dies written by Albert Caron and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ISLAND DIES WWII POW & AMERICAN GUERILLA AUTOBIOGRAPHY CORREGIDOR ISLAND, PHILIPPINES 1942 Albert joined the army at nineteen, January 1940, and served in the Philippines for five years. He was captured and escaped his captors one year later. He returned home in 1945 with the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, POW and several other medals. A DARK MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN POW WHO ESCAPED FROM THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY & JOINED GUERILLA FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II. Do I consider myself a superhuman? In my escape, I will admit a little courage was involved. For surely it was a do or die effort. Was it patriotism? Or man revolt against bondage, perhaps it was lack of nooky. I must say a little of everything was implicated to drive a man to such desperation. As in the battle of Corregidor, what possessed a man to remain stoic, while others were reduced to whimpering vegetables, is one to believe that everyone as history tells us, at the besiege Alamo died a hero? I doubt it. They were just as scared as we were. It made no difference if a man had a college degree or was hardly able to scribble his name. Fear has no segregation. To me, the surrender although everyone knew it was coming, was the worst shock of them all. One day a proud solider, the next a slave for the enemy. To be incarcerated for the doing one thinks is just, is quite a blow. What happens to someone that is forced to survive such a terrifying experience? Can he return home and lead a normal life? Impossible. I remember calling up a certain Major stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds one night. This was ten years after capitulation. I had heard that he was on Corregidor at the time. As soon as I mentioned the island he broke down and cried on the phone. I also have, and still do break down to this day if I let myself become frustrated. I returned home bitter, a nervous wreck, loss of faith in God and Mankind. I suffered periodically from blackouts and was referred to a Psychiatrist from whom himself had a problem. An effeminate one, he advised me that I was all tensed up inside and told that I had to get it out of my system. After talking over with my wife I decided the best therapy for me would be to put my story on paper. It has helped. I have not had a blackout since I began writing my story. I still have nightmares of my escape, growing in intensity as the years go by leaving me in a cold sweat -Albert Caron PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Wounded Warriors, Keywords: USAFFE, Malinta Tunnel, General Fleming Moore, Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur, President of the Philippines Manuel Quezon, Japanese Imperial Army, Corregidor Island, Philippines, Prisoner of War, Cabanatuan Prison, Billibid Prison, Nichols Airfield, American Guerrilla, Markings Guerillas, Colonel Marcos V. Agustin, Colonel Yay Panlilio, 1st Cavalry Division.

Prisoner of War

Author : Michael P. Spradlin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545861519
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of War written by Michael P. Spradlin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lied about his age to enlist. Now he'll have to lie about everything else to survive! Survive the war. Outlast the enemy. Stay alive. That's what Henry Forrest has to do. When he lies about his age to join the Marines, Henry never imagines he'll face anything worse than his own father's cruelty. But his unit is shipped off to the Philippines, where the heat is unbearable, the conditions are brutal, and Henry's dreams of careless adventuring are completely dashed.Then the Japanese invade the islands, and US forces there surrender. As a prisoner of war, Henry faces one horror after another. Yet among his fellow captives, he finds kindness, respect, even brotherhood. A glimmer of light in the darkness. And he'll need to hold tight to the hope they offer if he wants to win the fight for his country, his freedom . . . and his life. Michael P. Spradlin's latest novel tenderly explores the harsh realities of the Bataan Death March and captivity on the Pacific front during World War II.

Captured on Corregidor

Author : John MacNair Wright
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Captured on Corregidor written by John MacNair Wright and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wright's account of the three and a half years he was a prisoner of the Japanese.

Fighting for MacArthur

Author : John Gordon
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612510620
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for MacArthur written by John Gordon and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines.”—Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941––42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans’ desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon’s extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army’s ill-fated defense of the Philippines.

Escape From Davao

Author : John D. Lukacs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668021331
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Escape From Davao written by John D. Lukacs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “riveting” (John Wukovits, author of Admiral “Bull” Halsey) and all-but-unknown account of ten American prisoners of war who escaped from a Japanese prison during World War II. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan’s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a Japanese POW camp during the Pacific war. Escape from Davao is the “remarkable” (Bill Sloan, author of Brotherhood of Heroes) story of one of the most extraordinary incidents in the Second World War and of what happened when the Americans returned home to tell the world what they had witnessed. Davao Penal Colony, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, was a prison plantation where thousands of American POWs toiled alongside Filipino criminals and suffered from tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the cruelty of their captors. The American servicemen were rotting in a hellhole from which escape was considered impossible, but ten of them, realizing that inaction meant certain death, planned to escape. Their bold plan succeeded with the help of Filipino allies, both patriots and the guerrillas who fought the Japanese sent to recapture them. Their trek to freedom repeatedly put the Americans in jeopardy, yet they eventually succeeded in returning home to the United States to fulfill their self-appointed mission: to tell Americans about Japanese atrocities and to rally the country to the plight of their comrades still in captivity. But the government and the military had a different timetable for the liberation of the Philippines and ordered the men to remain silent. Their testimony, when it finally emerged, galvanized the nation behind the Pacific war effort and made the men celebrities. Over the decades this remarkable story, called the “greatest story of the war in the Pacific” by the War Department in 1944, has faded away. Because of wartime censorship, the full story has never been told until now. John D. Lukacs spent years researching this heroic event, interviewing survivors, reading their letters, searching archival documents, and traveling to the decaying prison camp and its surroundings. His dramatic, gripping account of the escape brings this remarkable tale back to life, where a new generation can admire the resourcefulness and patriotism of the men who fought the Pacific war.

To Bataan and Back

Author : Jerry C. Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781623494339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book To Bataan and Back written by Jerry C. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, Maj. Thomas Dooley began the first of six handwritten journals--more than 500 written pages--that he continued to update throughout the war. As aide-de-camp to Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander of the Allied forces after Gen. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to Australia, Dooley had regular contact with commanders and headquarters throughout the Philippines. His journals reveal a very personal story of the battles of Bataan and Corregidor and the capture, imprisonment, and struggle for survival of tens of thousands of American prisoners of war. Dooley's journals--dutifully maintained even while he was a prisoner--are at once witty, articulate, stark, and often reflective. To Bataan and Back adds a new voice to the chorus of World War II history. Dooley was a 1935 graduate of the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), an institution that prepared many of its graduates for service in the Philippines and elsewhere. Texas Aggies celebrate a Muster tradition--a sacred pause to remember and honor who have died--that stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary Muster was observed during World War II that would deepen its meaning and further hallow the ceremonies thereafter. In April of 1942, with Japanese forces poised to overrun the Allies on the Philippine island of Corregidor, Maj. Thomas Dooley compiled a "roll call" list of twenty-six Aggies on "The Rock" during an almost constant bombardment. Dooley told a journalist about the list, and the resulting article spread rapidly throughout the United States, forever connecting Dooley to this enduring Aggie tradition. Dooley died in 2006 and his journals now reside in the Texas A&M University archives. In To Bataan and Back, Jerry C. Cooper has painstakingly transcribed, edited, and annotated these remarkable documents, shedding new light on daily life in the storied history of the war in the Pacific. -- Inside jacket flaps.

Pacific Rampart

Author : Glen Williford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732391635
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Rampart written by Glen Williford and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a heavily illustrated, definitive history of the American-built forts and harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bay in the Philippines. This work tells the history of these fortified islands (the most famous is the island of Corregidor) from those built by the Spanish to what remains today. Years of research at several archives allows this book to describe in great detail the defensive plans as well as the fortifications built between 1904 and 1942. The book follows the day by day of the fighting early in the Second World War that led to the surrender of these defenses, as well as the combat engagements in early 1945 when they were retaken. Consequently, it is simultaneously a "unit" history (the Coast Defense units stationed in the islands), a weapon /technical history (the artillery in the fixed gun and mortar batteries) and a combat history (the taking and then retaking of the fortress in World War II). This 470 page, hardcover book has been exhaustively researched to become the definitive account of these aspects. The text is supported with thorough referenced endnotes, bibliographical section, and six appendixes of historical data) and heavily illustrated with over 340 illustrations (black and white photographs, maps, and diagrams for many of the fort structures). The author, Glen M. Williford, has invested over 30 years of research into Pacific Rampart making it an important addition to the body of knowledge on these historical defenses and a must for any serious student of these fortifications and the story of Corregidor.