Battlin' bastards and pigboats
Harmuth, Robert K.
Battlin' bastards and pigboats the POW and submarine interface during WWII Robert K. Harmuth - [S.l. : Xlibris Corp.], c2000. - 393 p. : ill., 23 x 15 cm.
Researched account of the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942 and the ordeals of the American prisoners of war, through the Death March, various prison camps, hell ships and forced labor. Gives (somewhat as an afterthought) the role of US submarines in speeding up the US victory and freeing the POWs, although a few unmarked prison ships were inadvertently sunk by submarines.
The author, a retired US Navy officer, chanced upon two veterans of Bataan and was inspired to write this book, concluding that the US did abandon the defenders of the Philippines and that “God was on our side as was uncannily obvious at turning points in the war.†- Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
English
738852732 (hardbound)
Prisoners of war--Japan.
Prisoners of war--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
D 783 .H27 2000
Battlin' bastards and pigboats the POW and submarine interface during WWII Robert K. Harmuth - [S.l. : Xlibris Corp.], c2000. - 393 p. : ill., 23 x 15 cm.
Researched account of the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942 and the ordeals of the American prisoners of war, through the Death March, various prison camps, hell ships and forced labor. Gives (somewhat as an afterthought) the role of US submarines in speeding up the US victory and freeing the POWs, although a few unmarked prison ships were inadvertently sunk by submarines.
The author, a retired US Navy officer, chanced upon two veterans of Bataan and was inspired to write this book, concluding that the US did abandon the defenders of the Philippines and that “God was on our side as was uncannily obvious at turning points in the war.†- Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
English
738852732 (hardbound)
Prisoners of war--Japan.
Prisoners of war--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
D 783 .H27 2000