Dick Bilyeu

Lost in Action

A World War II Soldier's Account of Capture on Bataan and Imprisonment by the Japanese

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Produktbeschreibung

"Lost in action," a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for years following his capture by Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan. The three and a half years after capture were a time of torture and slave labor. At war's end the author weighed 95 pounds, down from his normal 160. A year was spent in military hospitals before he was fit to return to normal activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780786467242
• ISBN-10: 078646724X
• Artikelnr.: 33619637

Autorenporträt

The late Dick Bilyeu went on to serve in Korea and retired from the army in 1961 as a chief warrant officer. He lived in North Highlands, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword     
Introduction      xiii
1. Under hostile fire     
2. Digging in     
3. Assignment with Philippine Army in Bataan     
4. Last ditch stand     
5. Hopes for evacuation dashed     
6. No unit, no ship, no help and no hope     
7. Stragglers uniting to defend their lives     
8. Last hours for the battling bastards of Bataan     
9. Confusion and capture     
10. Into the jungle     
11. March into hell     
12. The train to Capas 9     
13. A time to look back     
14. First day in a concentration camp     
15. Disposing of the dead     
16. Making an effort to comprehend man's inhumanity to man     
17. Return to Manila Bay     
18. Search for silver 13     
19. Pumping station on Corregidor 13     
20. Plans for escape     
21. First sight of old Bilibid Prison     
22. Another train ride     
23. Clark Field     
24. The pits     
25. Leaving Clark Field     
26. Return to Bilibid Prison - driving detail     
27. First time at the main camp-Cabanatuan     
28. Alert for movement out of the Philippines     
29. Assembly for trip away from the war zone     
30. Loss of dignity, loss of pride and loss of life     
31. Down from the mountain. Last leg of the journey     
32. Moji, Japan     
33. Loss of a dear friend     
34. Yet another train     
35. New experience, new detail and intrigue     
36. Warmer weather and hotter war in Japan     
37. The cave-in     
38. Hotter war-increased torture     
39. The price of stealing from a victory garden     
40. Moving again and the bomb-hysteria and revenge     
41. Food from the sky     
42. It is over