Donald J. Young

The Fall of the Philippines

The Desperate Struggle Against the Japanese Invasion, 1941-1942

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Due to the Philippines remaining virtually cut-off in early 1942 from the outside world, the battle and fall of the Island's has attracted little interest in the stories of that desperate and tragic fight. Of the many lost or unwritten due to its rapid fall, this book contains seventeen that best tell and represent that bitter and oft forgotten campaign.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780786498208
• ISBN-10: 078649820X
• Artikelnr.: 41852001

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction
1 1.
"Never even got into the air"
3 2.
The Philippines, December 10, 1941: "Where are our fighters?"
14 3.
Moon Under Lingayen
30 4.
When America Needed Heroes: Wheless and Wagner, December 10-16
38 5.
The USS Canopus
48 6.
A Scary Christmas But a Happy New Year: The Philippines, December 1941
58 7.
The Last and the First: Bataan, January 18, 1942
65 8.
The First Battle for Bataan: January 18, 1942
75 9.
"Think what we could have done with sixty!"
84 10.
Biggest Day for the Bataan Air Force: March 3, 1942
91 11.
Japanese Blitzkrieg: April 3, 1942
98 12.
The Deliberate Bombing of Bataan Hospital No. 1
107 13.
The Fighting General of Bataan
119 14.
Honorable But Not Easy: The Surrender of Bataan
133 15.
"P-40 Something": The Last of the Tomahawks
146 16.
Corregidor Fights Back: May 6, 1942
154 17.
"You will, repeat, will surrender"
191 Chapter Notes
203 Bibliography
207 Index
209