TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Steven Trent
TI  - The Rescue : : a true story of courage and survival in world war II / 
SN  - 471412910 (hardbound)
AV  - D 783.5 .C74 S63 2001 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - United States. Navy
KW  - Search and rescue operations
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Negros Island
KW  - Crevalle (Submarine)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Submarine
KW  - Naval operations, American
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Negros
KW  - Negros Island (Philippines: Province)
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
KW  - American refugees in Negros
KW  - Cebu Area Command
KW  - guerrilla resistance movement
KW  - guerrilla submarines
KW  - Japanese Z Plan
KW  - submarine rescue
KW  - USS Crevalle
N2  - Well-researched and dramatic telling of the USS Crevalle’s special mission to Negros to rescue forty trapped Americans (who faced imprisonment and possible execution if captured by the Japanese) and captured Japanese war plans in 1944.

While the submarine’s mission provides the climax, this book goes into the backgrounds of the Americans rescued, the Filipino guerrillas who captured the Japanese plans (the so-called “Z” Plan, Japanese Navy operational plans for the defense of the Pacific), off Cebu, and the impact the recovery by the Americans these plans had on the Pacific War.

The author was able to interview almost all the surviving civilians who were rescued, and consulted a wide array of primary and secondary materials to write this book. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
UR  - https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/rhc-013613?e=18015266/54198953
ER  -