Bataan Death March The Story Of Leroy Sheets
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Author | : ALBERT Rayl |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-12-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1300564989 |
This is the story of a young man from the Texas Panhandle from a very large family that joined the Army in July 1941 and died in a Japanese POW Camp after the Bataan Death March
Author | : Sidney Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258129675 |
What happened to the survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March in World War II? In a new edition of this classic account, Sidney Stewart gives one man's gripping answer.
Author | : Lt.-Colonel William Dyess |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782892699 |
[Illustrated with over 30 photos of the author, his unit, escape, his kit etc.] As General MacArthur sailed away from the Philippines vowing to return, he left behind him many American soldiers that had been swept up by the victorious Japanese tide of invasion. One such man was Lt.-Colonel William Edwin ‘Ed’ Dyess, he and his unit of the 21st Pursuit squadron flew their obsolete P-40 Warhawks against the superior Japanese fighters until no more planes remained. Undaunted he fought on as an infantryman before his eventual capture by the Japanese his deeds of selfless bravery were legendary, including giving his own plane to a fellow aviator so he could fly to safety. Dyess and his brave men deserved a better fate than that which awaited them at the hands of their Japanese captors on the infamous Bataan Death March. Driven north from Bataan, the American and Philippino prisoners were beaten, starved and prodded at the tip of the bayonet toward prison camps that had been callously unprovided with the basic means of existence. In the only successful mass prison escape, Dyess along with his men broke out of their prison camp and made contact with resistance groups. After a time waging further Guerilla operations, Dyess and two other American servicemen were evacuated by submarine to Australia. As Dyess recuperated the American Government knowing the effect that the truth of the atrocities committed by the Japanese would galvanize public opinion allowed the release of his story via the Chicago Tribune. The story created a huge storm of outrage directed at the Japanese and of respect and admiration for Dyess and his fellow soldiers who had endured so much on their behalf. Dyess returned to active service as soon as was possible but tragically died in an airplane accident in 1943, a hero to his men and country. A tragically vivid and gruelling account of one of the most heroic escape stories yet told.
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416539883 |
Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.
Author | : Lt Col Wm E. Dyess |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780353230651 |
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Author | : Ray Merriam |
Publisher | : Merriam Press |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 1576381641 |
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Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Leo P. Brophy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Chemical warfare |
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Author | : Ed Whitcomb |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781478384564 |
In November 1940, 44 young military cadets graduated from the first Army Air Corps Navigational Class at Miami University in Coral Gables, Florida. The cadets came from all parts of the United States-from the urban areas of the East Coast, westward to the Appalachian Mountains, to the Midwest and prairie states, to the Rocky Mountains, and the West Coast. These young men came from the inner cities, the farmlands, the mountains, and coastal regions, and they were all volunteers. Most were college-educated and in the prime of life. World War II was raging in Europe and it was becoming increasingly difficult for the United States to remain neutral. A few farsighted men in our small Army Air Corps saw the essential requirement for trained celestial navigators in our military aircraft. The instructor for this navigational class was a 34-year-old high school dropout by the name of Charles J. Lunn. Charlie Lunn had first learned the art of celestial navigation aboard freighter ships in the Caribbean and later as the navigator aboard Pan American Airline planes flying to Europe and Asia. This book was written by one of those young navigators, Edgar D. Whitcomb, from Hayden, Indiana. Ed Whitcomb tells about these young comrades-in-arms and draws vivid word portraits of them as we learn of their assignments to Air Corps units. We learn how they survived and how some died in World War II. We learn about Ed's own pre-Pearl Harbor assignment with the 19th Bombardment Group at Clark Field in the Philippines and the unfortunate, and perhaps inexcusable, decision not to deploy our B-17 Flying Fortress bombers immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor resulting in the loss of 40 percent of those aircraft as they sat parked at Clark Field when the Japanese destroyed that vital military air base on the afternoon of 8 December 1941. On Celestial Wings tells of the development of the first program to mass produce celestial navigators as America geared up for entry into WWII. It also tells of heartrending tragedies resulting from America's lack of preparedness for war and the fight against overwhelming odds in experiences of members of the US Army Air Corps Navigation School class of 40-A. It tells of their honors and victories and their disappointments and bitter defeats in a war unlike any that will ever occur again.
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Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
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