Japanese Capture Famous American General Escaping From Corregidor March 1942

Author : V. A. Herbert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496910508
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Capture Famous American General Escaping from Corregidor - March, 1942 written by V. A. Herbert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that American General Douglas MacArthur was still in the Phillipines immediately following their surprise attach on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, the Japanese military organization under Prime Minister and Army General Tojo believed that the U.S. Government would probably recall or reassign MacArthur the newly appointed Commander of all non-Naval activities in the Far Eastern, Asiatic Theatre of Operations. This is the exciting fast-moving story of how General MacArthur, his wife and young son Arthur IV, were captured by the Japanese Navy immediately following their escape on a P.T. boat from the island fortress of Corregidor at the tip of the Bataan peninsula in Manila Bay, and how MacArthur was able to befriend and convince Japans Emperor Hirohito that continuation of the war between the United States and Japan should be ended as soon as possible. MacArthur felt it made no sense to go on killing people in view of the friendship that America and Japan had enjoyed for so many years prior to Japans decision to attack Pearl Harbor, which decision Japan made because President Roosevelt had threatened to completely cut off Japans oil imports unless Japan immediately withdrew its army from French Indo China. REVIEW: Great story wish it had happened this way. Jeff Whited, Amherst, Ohio

Author : Louis G. Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan written by Louis G. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar D. Whitcomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359267890
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( 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.

Author : V. A. Herbert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496913957
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Head Transplant written by V. A. Herbert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating story the 83 year old author found himself in Heaven talking to his deceased parents immediately after his heart stopped and his head was severed while in the hospital O. R. He meets and talks with his grandparents and a god that none of us know, but is well known and loved by people in the hereafter. Meanwhile on Earth, the authors head is linked to the body of Mr. X, an older man with the same blood type who is brain dead. At the last minute, thinking he faced arrest by the county coroner, the lead surgeon in this delightful book is told of a new body with a hopeless head injury but right blood type having just arrived at the hospital. Surgeons undertake the transplant and 17 hours later a new author, far different from anyone else on Earth, or in Heaven, with his own head but a new body, awakes in the O. R., in horror. This book puts new meaning into the word novel, far different from anything youve ever read, and so thought provoking youll never forget it.

Author : Hiroshi Masuda
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466180
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacArthur in Asia written by Hiroshi Masuda and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Douglas MacArthur's storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential Filipinos, including the country's future president, Emanuel L. Quezon. In 1935, he became Quezon's military advisor, a post he held after retiring from the U.S. Army and at the time of Japan’s invasion of 1941. As Supreme Commander for the Southwest Pacific, MacArthur led American forces throughout the Pacific War. He officially accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and would later oversee the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. He then led the UN Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951, until he was dismissed from his post by President Truman. In MacArthur in Asia, the distinguished Japanese historian Hiroshi Masuda offers a new perspective on the American icon, focusing on his experiences in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea and highlighting the importance of the general’s staff—the famous "Bataan Boys" who served alongside MacArthur throughout the Asian arc of his career—to both MacArthur’s and the region’s history. First published to wide acclaim in Japanese in 2009 and translated into English for the first time, this book uses a wide range of sources—American and Japanese, official records and oral histories—to present a complex view of MacArthur, one that illuminates his military decisions during the Pacific campaign and his administration of the Japanese Occupation.

Author : James M. Scott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246957
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila written by James M. Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : John D. Lukacs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439180431
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( 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 2010-05-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 story of one of the most remarkable 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.

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785813040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the "incidents" that really began the war in the Pacific and the internal conflicts within Japan.

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of United States Naval Operations in World War II written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Lewis Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734542103
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable written by John Lewis Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, true story of one sailor's struggle to survive the opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. When the U.S. Fleet flees to the safety of Allied waters, Charles Beckner, a young Navy Corpsman is left behind, trapped on Bataan with no apparent avenue for escape.