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| Author | : Christopher L. Kolakowski |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2016-03-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786474890 |
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In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese invasion. Much of the five-month campaign was waged on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. Despite dwindling supplies and dim prospects for support, the garrison held out as long as possible and significantly delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific. In the end, the Japanese forced the largest capitulation in U.S. military history. The defenders were hailed as heroes and the legacy of their determined resistance marks the Philippines today. Drawing on accounts from American and Filipino participants and archival sources, this book chronicles these critical months of the Pacific War, from the first air strikes to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.
| Author | : John W. Whitman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 784 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Download Bataan, Our Last Ditch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Unpublished letters, written and oral testimony of over 350 veterans restores these gruelling months into a historical record.
| Author | : Kevin C. Murphy |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476618542 |
Download Inside the Bataan Death March Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Michael Norman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 958 |
| Release | : 2009-06-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0374272603 |
Download Tears in the Darkness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Louis G. Morton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Raymond G. Woolfe |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2016-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442245352 |
Download The Doomed Horse Soldiers of Bataan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the story of the last mounted American troops to see action in battle, when, in late 1941, six-hundred men and their horses held off the Japanese invasion of Luzon in the Philippines just long enough to allow General Douglas MacArthur's forces to withdraw to Bataan. The 26th continued to fight on horseback until late February 1942 when, tragically, they were ordered dismounted and their horses and mules transferred to the Quartermaster's center and slaughtered for food for the defenders. It is on record that the 26th troopers refused to accept meat rations from their animals, regardless of their own starvation. This stirring account of a little-known aspect of the Philippine campaign is military history at its best.
| Author | : Eugene P. Boyt |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806135823 |
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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.
| Author | : Louis Morton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 664 |
| Release | : 1953 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Fall of the Philippines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Donald J. Young |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2015-03-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 078649820X |
Download The Fall of the Philippines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day. Unlike the rapid capture of Hong Kong, Wake Island and Singapore, the war in the Philippines lasted for seven months before the unprepared American and Filipino forces--cut off from supplies and fighting with obsolete equipment and without air or naval support--were overwhelmed. Drawing on diaries and personal accounts, this book chronicles forgotten actions in the fall of the Philippines through the recollections of American servicemen. The author covers the 90 day perseverance of Bataan's tiny air force, the first PT boat raid of the war, the last U.S. horse cavalry charge in history, a lone U.S. submarine's attack on a Japanese invasion fleet, the deliberate bombing of Bataan's main field hospital by the Japanese, the difficult and uneasy surrender of Bataan, Corregidor's doomed resistance and the surrender of the Southern Islands of the archipelago.
| Author | : John Gordon |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2011-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1612510620 |
Download Fighting for MacArthur Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“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.
