From the first edition: On the morning of April 9, 1942, 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese. Thus ended one of the most brutal and intense encounters of World War II.
From the first edition: On the morning of April 9, 1942, 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese. Thus ended one of the most brutal and intense encounters of World War II.
Donald J. Young is a military historian, author and lecturer on the pre-Midway period of World War II in the Pacific. He is a retired educator living in Hermosa Beach, California.
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Table of Contents Preface Military Organizations and Designations Introduction 1. The Battle Is Joined 2. Counterattack and Withdrawal 3. Invasion from the Sea 4. The Battle for the Points Continues 5. The Battle of the Pockets 6. "We Spit on Our Hands and Waited" 7. Beginning of the End 8. No Gleam of Victory 9. Bataan's Last Hours 10. "Bataan Has Fallen" Appendix A 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions Bataan Artillery and Antiaircraft Bataan Engineers and Quartermaster The Bataan Hospitals and the Medical Situations Communications Appendix B Refugees Troop Morale The Weather and Its Effect Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface Military Organizations and Designations Introduction 1. The Battle Is Joined 2. Counterattack and Withdrawal 3. Invasion from the Sea 4. The Battle for the Points Continues 5. The Battle of the Pockets 6. "We Spit on Our Hands and Waited" 7. Beginning of the End 8. No Gleam of Victory 9. Bataan's Last Hours 10. "Bataan Has Fallen" Appendix A 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions Bataan Artillery and Antiaircraft Bataan Engineers and Quartermaster The Bataan Hospitals and the Medical Situations Communications Appendix B Refugees Troop Morale The Weather and Its Effect Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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