Author: Frances B. Cogan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps--the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book addresses several controversial issues about the internment, including Japanese intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S. State Department's role in allowing the presence of American civilians in the Philippines during wartime. Supported by diaries, memoirs, war crimes transcripts, Japanese soldiers' accounts, medical data, and many other sources, Captured presents a detailed and moving chronicle of the internees' efforts to survive. Cogan compares living conditions within the internment camps with life in POW camps and with the living conditions of Japanese soldiers late in the war. An afterword discusses the experiences of internment survivors after the war, combining medical and legal statistics with personal anecdotes to create a testament to the thousands of Americans whose captivity haunted them long after the war ended.
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Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313306141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Because of their strategic location, the Philippines exercised a profound influence in the thinking of both Japanese and American strategists before and during World War II. A number of controversies surrounding the preparations for war, the initial defense of the islands, the Japanese occupation, the conduct of guerrilla operations, and the 1944-1945 American campaign to retake the islands still draw the interest of students and scholars. This work provides a finding aid for individuals seeking to deal with these issues. A bibliographic overview of available periodical and book literature in English, this book is multidimensional, encompassing all aspects—military, political, economic, and social—of the Pacific War as it relates to developments in the archipelago. The book is an essential source for those looking for insights into the war's impact on Philippine society and also into military operations in and around the islands. With a chronological summary of wartime events in the islands as well as the bibliography, the work constitutes a major contribution to the furtherance of historical inquiry on World War II in the Philippines.
Author: Fidel L. Ongpauco
Publisher: Gatineau, Québec : Editions Lévesque = Lévesque Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Walter F. Bell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Because of their strategic location, the Philippines exercised a profound influence in the thinking of both Japanese and American strategists before and during World War II. A number of controversies surrounding the preparations for war, the initial defense of the islands, the Japanese occupation, the conduct of guerrilla operations, and the 1944-1945 American campaign to retake the islands still draw the interest of students and scholars. This work provides a finding aid for individuals seeking to deal with these issues. A bibliographic overview of available periodical and book literature in English, this book is multidimensional, encompassing all aspects—military, political, economic, and social—of the Pacific War as it relates to developments in the archipelago. The book is an essential source for those looking for insights into the war's impact on Philippine society and also into military operations in and around the islands. With a chronological summary of wartime events in the islands as well as the bibliography, the work constitutes a major contribution to the furtherance of historical inquiry on World War II in the Philippines.
Author: Walter Dumaux Edmonds
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915419
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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Author: Clayton K. S. Chun
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849086109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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A highly illustrated account of the fall of the Philippines in 1941–42, one of the least covered campaigns of World War II. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese launched an attack on the Philippines to eliminate the United States' other major Pacific naval base. Catching the US forces completely by surprise, the Japanese bombed the major airfields and quickly gained air supremacy. They followed with a full-scale invasion that quickly rolled up US–Filipino opposition and captured Manila. Meanwhile US forces, under the leadership of the Douglas MacArthur, created a series of defensive lines to try and stop the Japanese advance. Despite their efforts, they were continually pushed back until they held nothing more than the small island of Corregidor. With doom hanging over the US–Filipino forces, Douglas MacArthur was ordered to fly to safety in Australia, vowing to return. Nearly five months after the invasion began, the US–Filipino forces surrendered, and were led off on the 'Bataan Death March'. This book covers the full campaign from the planning through to the execution, looking at the various battles and strategies that were employed by both sides in the battle for the Philippines.
Author: John Fidelis Hurley
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
ISBN: 9789715504881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Shares the author's experiences from the first days of World War II until the end of hostilities. He saw and endured the pain brought by war, but lived through it optimistically, first hand and vicariously, through the different personalities - American, Filipinos, Japanese, and others - whom he knew and with whom he came into contact.
Author: James M. Scott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393246957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 631
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“Illuminating.… An eloquent testament to a doomed city and its people.” —The Wall Street Journal In early 1945, General Douglas MacArthur prepared to reclaim Manila, America’s Pearl of the Orient, which had been seized by the Japanese in 1942. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city, he planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard—but the enemy had other plans. The Japanese were determined to fight to the death. The battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population, resulting in a massacre as horrific as the Rape of Nanking. Drawing from war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history.
Author: Ray Merriam
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781481197366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Merriam Press Military Monograph 91. Fourth Edition (December 2012). A selection of articles on the war in the Philippines during World War II. Contents: The Japanese Conquest of the Philippines, 1941-42; The First U.S. Tank Action in World War II; 200th and 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiments in the Philippines; Target: Corregidor; Battles for the Central Philippines, September 1944; A Doctor in Bataan; The Philippine Inland Seas Defense Project; Corregidor: An Airborne Assault; The 3rd Field Artillery Battalion (Provisional) in the Philippines, 1941-42; M16 Half-tracks in the Philippines; World War II's Last Bitter Battle; The Battling Bantams of Leyte Gulf; Mail from Corregidor, 1942; Minister Remembers Bataan Death March; The U.S. Navy at Bataan; I Was a Guard on the Bataan Death March; The 26th Cavalry in the Philippines: A Classic Delaying Action; Interrogation of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, IJN: Battle of the Philippine Sea and Battle for Leyte Gulf; Interrogation of Vice Admiral Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN: Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies; Hunted by Japs for Years, American Flier is Rescued. Maps, illustrations.
Author: Maurer Maurer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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