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Journey Through Hell : Memoir of a World War II American Navy Medic Captured in the Philippines and Imprisoned by the Japanese

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0786467703
ISBN-13 9780786467709
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 9th, 2012
Print length 151 Pages
Weight 218 grams
Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification: Second World War
Ksh 3,650.00
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Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found himself aiding many of his fellow captives who had been wounded in the defense of the island. This is his story of imprisonment by the Japanese at camps in the Philippines, Japan and Manchuria. He remembers caring for the sick and wounded at Bilibid and the brutal Cabanatuan prison camps where starvation, malnutrition, diseases and degradation were a way of life are included. Also detailed are his journey aboard the Japanese hellship Oryoku Maru that left Manila with 1,619 prisoners but arrived in Japan with fewer than 400 survivors and his liberation from a camp in Mukden, Manchuria, by Russian troops.

Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found himself aiding many of his fellow captives who had been wounded in the defense of the island. This is his story of imprisonment by the Japanese at camps in the Philippines, Japan and Manchuria.

He remembers caring for the sick and wounded at Bilibid and the brutal Cabanatuan prison camps where starvation, malnutrition, diseases and degradation were a way of life are included. Also detailed are his journey aboard the Japanese hellship Oryoku Maru that left Manila with 1,619 prisoners but arrived in Japan with fewer than 400 survivors and his liberation from a camp in Mukden, Manchuria, by Russian troops.


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