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Lädt ... Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War IIvon Bob Wilbanks
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4146 Last Man Out Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II, by Bob Wilbanks (read 30 Mar 2006) McDole is a man who dropped out of high school because he could not be on the basketball team and joined the Marines and was sent to the Philippines, where he was in December 1941. He became a prisoner of the Japanese when Corregidor fell in May 1942 and his is a searing account of his time as a POW. The Japanese undertook to massacre all the 300 some prisoners in the camp he was in on Dec 14, 1944, but he thrillingly managed to escape and returned to Iowa and became a highway patrolman. A stirring book, though the account of the evilness of all but one of the Japanese guards seems incredible. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A. Beginning on December 8, 1941, at the U.S. Navy Yard barracks at Cavite, the story of this young Iowa Marine continues through the fighting on Corregidor, the capture and imprisonment by the Japanese Imperial Army in May 1942, Mac's entry into the Palawan prison camp in the Philippines on August 12, 1942, the terrible conditions he and his comrades endured in the camps, and the terrible day when 139 young soldiers were slaughtered. The work details the escapes of the few survivors as they dug into refuse piles, hid in coral caves, and slogged through swamp and jungle to get to supportive Filipinos. It also contains an account and verdicts of the war crimes trials of the Japanese guards, follow-ups on the various places and people referred to in the text, with descriptions of their present situations, and a roster of the names and hometowns of the victims of the Palawan massacre. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.547252092History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Prisoners of war; medical and social services Prisioner-of-War CampsKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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