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To Bataan and Back

Author : Jerry C. Cooper
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494354
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book To Bataan and Back written by Jerry C. Cooper and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary Muster took place during World War II that would change and further hallow the service thereafter. In the spring of 1942, with Japanese forces poised to overrun the Allies on the Philippine island of Corregidor, Maj. Thomas Dooley, class of 1935, and Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, class of 1908, compiled a list of twenty-five other Aggies under their command, which constituted a “roll call” in the midst of the bombardment. Dooley later told a journalist about the list, and the resulting article spread rapidly throughout the United States, forever connecting Dooley to this enduring Aggie tradition. The breadth of Dooley’s wartime experiences, however, goes far beyond this single Muster. On the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dooley began the first of six handwritten journals—more than 500 pages—that he continued to update throughout the war. As aide-de-camp to Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the new commander of the Allied forces after Gen. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to Australia, Dooley had regular contact with various commanders and headquarters throughout Bataan and Corregidor. His journals reveal the inside story of the battles of Bataan and Corregidor and with it the capture, imprisonment, and struggle for survival of tens of thousands of American prisoners of war. Dooley’s journals—dutifully maintained even as he was a prisoner—are at once witty, articulate, stark, and often reflective. Dooley died in 2006, and his journals now reside in the Texas A&M University archives. 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.

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.

Bataan

Author : Eugene P. Boyt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135823
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Bataan written by Eugene P. Boyt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other young American men during the depression-era 1930s, Gene Boyt entered Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Later, after receiving an ROTC commission in the Army Engineers and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Missouri School of Mines, Boyt joined the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater. While building runways and infrastructure in the Philippines in 1941, Boyt enjoyed the regal life of an American officer stationed in a tropical paradise--but not for long. When the United States surrendered the Philippines to Japan in April 1942, Boyt became a prisoner of war, suffering unthinkable deprivation and brutality at the hands of the ruthless Japanese guards. One of the last accounts to come from a Bataan survivor, Boyt’s story details the infamous Bataan Death March and his subsequent forty-two months in Japanese internment camps. In this fast-paced narrative, Boyt’s voice conveys the quiet courage of the generation of men who fought and won history’s greatest armed conflict.

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.

South to Bataan, North to Mukden

Author : Edward W. Brougher
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337951
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book South to Bataan, North to Mukden written by Edward W. Brougher and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the diary of Brigadier General William Edward Brougher, who, after distinguishing himself as a combat leader in the unsuccessful defense of the Philippines, stoically endured confinement in Japanese prison camps in Luzon, Taiwan, Kyushu, and Manchuria from 1942 to 1945. Brougher's frank, terse, and moving day-by-day descriptions of his sufferings and those of his fellow prisoners provide an absorbing account of human behavior under harsh conditions and terrible stress. Since his fellow inmates were the high-ranking officers and civilian governors of the surrendered American, British, and Dutch colonies of Southeast Asia, the diary is also an interesting study of interallied relations under extraordinary circumstances. Editor D. Clayton James provides a narrative account of General Brougher's combat record in the first Philippine campaign, accompanied by sketches of prison life drawn by a Dutch prisoner, Major General H. J. D. de Fremery. Also included are maps illustrating Brougher's military operations and his travels as a prisoner from camp to camp.

I Came Back from Bataan

Author : James Donovan Gautier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Came Back from Bataan written by James Donovan Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholesome war story to stir up the patriot in all of us.

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.

Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines

Author : Thomas P. Walsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810886081
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines written by Thomas P. Walsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. The book reprints a number of hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the first time in more than a century. It also provides copyright registration numbers and dates of registration for many published and unpublished songs. Finally, more than 700 notes on particular songs and numerous links provide direct access to bibliographic records or digital copies of sheet music in libraries and collections.

Bataan Death March

Author : Bollich, James
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455600601
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bataan Death March written by Bollich, James and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a brave American veteran comes an eyewitness account of a gruesome chapter in World War II history. Captured when America surrendered the PhilippinesBataan Peninsula, James Bollich experienced first-hand the march that cost more than 8,000 American and Filipino lives. Now, he shares the unforgettable experience of his three and a half years of Japanese imprisonment.This journal relates his personal experience, first focusing on the sixty-five-mile march that deprived prisoners of food, water, and rest. Prisoners received harsh punishments for any infraction, one of the most brutal of these being the policy of beheading them for taking a sip of water. Rather than force him to give up, these things made Bollich fight for life even more. Witnessing his comrades falling beside him and watching his own body waste away to ninety pounds, he never yielded his will to survive. After completing the march, he remained a prisoner of war, first at an old Philippine army base, then in another camp at Mukden, Manchuria. He relates his imprisonment in detail, from starvation and torture to digging their own comrades graves in the hot sun, without hats or water. Through it all, he remained courageous and hopeful that he would one day make it back home. His story reminds both past and present generations of the horror and brutality of the Pacific war, all the while providing an inspiring testament to the will ofthe human spirit.

Bataan Diary

Author : Chris Schaefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bataan Diary written by Chris Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the men who fought America's first battle in World War II--their will, their resolve, the odds against them, their surrender, the Death March, their imprisonment, and the few who escaped to continue the fight.After the destruction of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. Army on Bataan was forced to surrender to the Japanese and70,000 American and Filipino soldiers became Prisoners of War. Over the next three years, almost two-thirds of them would die in Japanese custody. However, a few hundred Americans refused to surrender, evaded the Japanese Army, and slipped into the jungle to hide and await the return of General MacArthur. Some joined Filipino guerrilla bands hoping to help the war effort during the months they would wait. But months turned into years, and there was no sign of General MacArthur or his army. At home in the United States their families waited for them, not knowing if their men were dead or alive. Bataan Diary is the remarkable true chronicle of the American prisoners, evaders and guerrillas, trapped in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation.

Tears in the Darkness

Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374272603
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Tears in the Darkness written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.

Baby of Bataan

Author : Joseph Quitman Johnson
Publisher : Omonomany
ISBN 13 : 1590960025
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Baby of Bataan written by Joseph Quitman Johnson and published by Omonomany. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bataan, Our Last Ditch

Author : John W. Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bataan, Our Last Ditch written by John W. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on America's first engagement in WWII. Unpublished letters, written and oral testimony of over 350 veterans restores these gruelling months into a historical record.

We Band of Angels

Author : Elizabeth Norman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812984846
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book We Band of Angels written by Elizabeth Norman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon, and this paradise became a fiery hell. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of war, and suffered the terrors of shells and shrapnel. But the worst was yet to come. After Bataan and Corregidor fell, the nurses were herded into internment camps where they would endure three years of fear, brutality, and starvation. Once liberated, they returned to an America that at first celebrated them, but later refused to honor their leaders with the medals they clearly deserved. Here, in letters, diaries, and riveting firsthand accounts, is the story of what really happened during those dark days, woven together in a deeply affecting saga of women in war. Praise for We Band of Angels “Gripping . . . a war story in which the main characters never kill one of the enemy, or even shoot at him, but are nevertheless heroes . . . Americans today should thank God we had such women.”—Stephen E. Ambrose “Remarkable and uplifting.”—USA Today “[Elizabeth M. Norman] brings a quiet, scholarly voice to this narrative. . . . In just a little over six months these women had turned from plucky young girls on a mild adventure to authentic heroes. . . . Every page of this history is fascinating.”—Carolyn See, The Washington Post “Riveting . . . poignant and powerful.”—The Dallas Morning News Winner of the Lavinia Dock Award for historical scholarship, the American Academy of Nursing National Media Award, and the Agnes Dillon Randolph Award

Born in Bataan

Author : Winford Lewis Allen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1410711307
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Born in Bataan written by Winford Lewis Allen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the price of courage? Are honor, duty, and country the noblest ideals of American men at arms? How does a young American boy make the transition from a naïve country bumpkin to a soldier worthy to wear the green uniform of freedom? Are Americans that wear that olive drab uniform always the good honorable sons of the fertile land of Liberty? Difficult questions fog the young mind of Joshua David Duncan as he enters a world that defies his western imagination by a people whose ordinary acts of daily living are mystifying to behold. He enters the realm of Asia in all its captivating beauty with a relish to explore the land and meet the people. He sees the splendor of the Asian sunrise and sunset and the glory of the mountains and sea, but at the same time he is left stymied by the depravity of the golden skinned people. Without warning a dark, beautiful, native girl captures more than just his attention, but an unexpected war changes everything. And then the children appear: Hungry, ravaged, and frightened, but the paramount question is not asked with a why, but a who. Who do they all come from?

The Star-Spangled Screen

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148952
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Star-Spangled Screen written by Bernard F. Dick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses. The Star-Spangled Screen examines the historical accuracy—or lack thereof—of films about the Third Reich, the Resistance, and major military campaigns. Concerned primarily with the films of the war years, it also includes discussions of such postwar movies as Battleground (1949), Attack! (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and Patton (1970). This revised edition includes a new afterword that covers more recent films, such as Sophie's Choice (1982), Biloxi Blues (1986), and Schindler's List (1993). The Star-Spangled Screen makes a major contribution to popular culture by recreating an era that, for all its tragedy, was one of the most creative in the history of American film.

No Uncle Sam

Author : Anton F. Bilek
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387682
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book No Uncle Sam written by Anton F. Bilek and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Anton F. Bilek's story of his survival as a Japanese prisoner of war. He recounts the Death March that he and other Fil-American prisoners of war endured in Bataan after surrender, his imprisonment in the Philippines and Japan and his subsequent servitude in the Japanese coal mines.