TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michel, John J. A.
TI  - Mr. Michel’s war : : from Manila to Mukden: an American navy officer’s war with the Japanese, 1941-1945 / 
SN  - 891416439 (hardbound)
AV  - D 767 .M45 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Novato, CA : 
PB  - Presidio Press
KW  - Michel, John J. A.
KW  - United States. Navy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sailors
KW  - United States
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Pacific area
KW  - Naval operations, American
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Dutch East Indies campaign
KW  - naval operations
KW  - personal account – American
KW  - Philippine defense campaign
KW  - POW account
KW  - US Asiatic Fleet
KW  - USS Pope
N2  - Personal account of a US Navy officer assigned to the Asiatic Fleet before the war. He describes China and Manila (and Cavite) before the war, his assignment to the destroyer Pope, and operations of the Asiatic Fleet in the defense of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

Only briefly covers the Philippines, before and at the start of the war: the Asiatic Fleet itself was ordered to pull out and not to defend the Philippines. His destroyer was sunk in a naval battle and Lt. Michel became a prisoner of war of the Japanese. The bulk of the book is on his life as prisoner of war in the Dutch East Indies, Nagasaki and Mukden, China.

This manuscript was originally written in 1948, when Lt. Michel’s memory was still fresh; it was published around fifty years later. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
UR  - https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/rhc-013569?e=18015266/45895156
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