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Author : ALBERT Rayl
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300564980
This is the story of a young man from the Texas Panhandle from a very large family that joined the Army in July 1941 and died in a Japanese POW Camp after the Bataan Death March
Author : Kevin C. Murphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476618548
For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the Americans, looked on. Most survivors of the march wrote about their experiences decades after the war and a number of factors distorted their accounts. The crucial aspect of memory is central to this study--how it is constructed, by whom and for what purpose. This book questions the prevailing interpretation, reconsiders the actions of all three groups in their cultural contexts and suggests a far greater complexity. Among the conclusions is that violence on the march was largely the result of a clash of cultures--undisciplined, individualistic Americans encountered Japanese who valued order and form, while Filipinos were active, even ambitious, participants in the drama.
Author : James Bollich
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589801679
In this moving personal history of the Bataan Death March during World War II, veteran Bollich provides a day-to-day account of the horrors to which he and his fellow POW's were subjected before being liberated.
Author : Lt.-Colonel William Dyess
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782892694
[Illustrated with over 30 photos of the author, his unit, escape, his kit etc.] As General MacArthur sailed away from the Philippines vowing to return, he left behind him many American soldiers that had been swept up by the victorious Japanese tide of invasion. One such man was Lt.-Colonel William Edwin ‘Ed’ Dyess, he and his unit of the 21st Pursuit squadron flew their obsolete P-40 Warhawks against the superior Japanese fighters until no more planes remained. Undaunted he fought on as an infantryman before his eventual capture by the Japanese his deeds of selfless bravery were legendary, including giving his own plane to a fellow aviator so he could fly to safety. Dyess and his brave men deserved a better fate than that which awaited them at the hands of their Japanese captors on the infamous Bataan Death March. Driven north from Bataan, the American and Philippino prisoners were beaten, starved and prodded at the tip of the bayonet toward prison camps that had been callously unprovided with the basic means of existence. In the only successful mass prison escape, Dyess along with his men broke out of their prison camp and made contact with resistance groups. After a time waging further Guerilla operations, Dyess and two other American servicemen were evacuated by submarine to Australia. As Dyess recuperated the American Government knowing the effect that the truth of the atrocities committed by the Japanese would galvanize public opinion allowed the release of his story via the Chicago Tribune. The story created a huge storm of outrage directed at the Japanese and of respect and admiration for Dyess and his fellow soldiers who had endured so much on their behalf. Dyess returned to active service as soon as was possible but tragically died in an airplane accident in 1943, a hero to his men and country. A tragically vivid and gruelling account of one of the most heroic escape stories yet told.
Author : Donald Knox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081330875
An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by americans under the extreme and seemingly unending stress of three and a half years of captivity under the Japanese on Bataan. Photographs and maps.
Author : Stanley Lawrence Falk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0867211741
Author : Corban K. Alabado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041705248
Author : Manny Lawton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019136149
Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.
Author : Michael Norman,Elizabeth M. Norman
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0312429703
Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides. For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book. From then until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of captivity, starvation rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture—far from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur. The Normans bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a figure out of Hemingway: a young cowboy turned sketch artist from Montana who joined the army to see the world. Juxtaposed against Steele's story and the sobering tale of the Death March and its aftermath is the story of a number of Japanese soldiers.
Author : Ray Merriam
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781576381649
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X000596791
Author : Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023151304
Author : Leo P. Brophy,George J. B. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Chemical warfare
ISBN : UOM:39015060541524
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : United States
ISBN : CUB:U183019485924
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9781428913356
General Kenney Reports is a classic account of a combat commander in action. General George Churchill Kenney arrived in the South- west Pacific theater in August 1942 to find that his command, if not in a shambles, was in dire straits. The theater commander, General Douglas MacArthur, had no confidence in his air element. Kenney quickly changed this situation. He organized and energized the Fifth Air Force, bringing in operational commanders like Whitehead and Wurtsmith who knew how to run combat air forces. He fixed the logistical swamp, making supply and maintenance supportive of air operations, and encouraging mavericks such as Pappy Gunn to make new and innovative weapons and to explore new tactics in airpower application. The result was a disaster for the Japanese. Kenney's airmen used air power-particularly heavily armed B-25 Mitchell bombers used as commerce destroyers-to savage Japanese supply lines, destroying numerous ships and effectively isolating Japanese garrisons. The classic example of Kenney in action was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, which marked the attainment of complete Allied air dominance and supremacy over Japanese naval forces operating around New Guinea. In short, Kenney was a brilliant, innovative airman, who drew on his own extensive flying experiences to inform his decision-making. General Kenney Reports is a book that has withstood the test of time, and which should be on the shelf of every airman.
