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Flashbacks : prisoner of war in the Philippines /

Statement of responsibility: T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts
by Middleton, T. Walter.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Alexander, NC : Alexander Books, c2000, 2001Description: 191 p. : ill., maps ; 23 x 16 cm.ISBN: 1570900973 (softbound).Subject(s): Middleton, T. Walter, 1918- | Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography | Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration Camps -- Philippines | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese | 803rd Engineering Battalion | Bataan | Camp O’Donnell | Death March | Del Carmen field | ex-POW maltreatment in US: army cover ups | forced labor | hell ships | personal account – American | Philippine defense campaign
Contents:
Appalachia beginning -- Induction -- Organized -- Ship ahoy -- Aloha -- Manila -- Del Carmen -- War! -- General MacArthur's war -- Orange 3 -- Abuccay hacienda -- Backing up the troops -- The Orion-Bagac line -- Kilometer 169 -- Company B's last night together -- The Bataan March of Death -- A train ride -- Prison -- The burying ditch -- Once upon a mountain -- A near human surprise -- My best friend -- Prayer time -- The forks of the road -- Jungle horrors -- "At any cost" -- Buzzards -- Leaving the tropics -- The Tottori Maru -- Pusan Korea -- Zero ward -- Dr. Ishii's clinic -- Making a comeback -- Moved into town -- Activities in camp -- Mukden with each passing year -- Factory things -- When the tide turned -- Across town -- The Emperor's speech -- Sowing wild oats -- Our last month in Mukden -- No guns now -- Typhoon -- Okinawa -- Back to Stateside -- Homeward bound -- A post war revelation -- About the author
Language/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: Middleton was drafted in 1941 and sent to the Philippines as a member of the 803rd Engineer Battalion. He was at Del Carmen airfield when the war broke out, and was moved to Bataan to build airfields for planes that never came. He was among those who had to surrender in April 1942, went on the Death March and endured the horrors of Camp O’Donnell. He was sent with a detachment of Japanese and other POWs to the mountains of northern Luzon, before being sent to Korea on board a prison ship and on to Mukden, Manchuria. There he worked for the Japanese under threat of death. After being released at the end of the war, his troubles continued when he and other prisoners were locked up in a psychiatric ward in the US, where several went crazy or were injured. Only after some time were they treated decently, after the army tried to cover up what had happened. His memoirs bring out the best and the worst in man that he had personally seen. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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Books, Monographs Books, Monographs Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll. RHC - Personal Narratives D 805 .P6 M53 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 14066
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Appalachia beginning -- Induction -- Organized -- Ship ahoy -- Aloha -- Manila -- Del Carmen -- War! -- General MacArthur's war -- Orange 3 -- Abuccay hacienda -- Backing up the troops -- The Orion-Bagac line -- Kilometer 169 -- Company B's last night together -- The Bataan March of Death -- A train ride -- Prison -- The burying ditch -- Once upon a mountain -- A near human surprise -- My best friend -- Prayer time -- The forks of the road -- Jungle horrors -- "At any cost" -- Buzzards -- Leaving the tropics -- The Tottori Maru -- Pusan Korea -- Zero ward -- Dr. Ishii's clinic -- Making a comeback -- Moved into town -- Activities in camp -- Mukden with each passing year -- Factory things -- When the tide turned -- Across town -- The Emperor's speech -- Sowing wild oats -- Our last month in Mukden -- No guns now -- Typhoon -- Okinawa -- Back to Stateside -- Homeward bound -- A post war revelation -- About the author

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