LEADER 03299cam a22004574a 4500001 148822 005 20240621183616.0 008 090130t20092009ncua 001 0deng 010 2009004482 020 9780786442751 |qsoftcover |qalkaline paper 020 0786442751 |qsoftcover |qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)ocn270109647 035 148822 043 n-us---e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dC#P |dBWX |dCDX 050 00 D805.G3 |bS727 2009 100 1 Spiller, Harry, |d1945- 245 10 American POWs in World War II : |btwelve personal accounts of captivity by Germany and Japan / |cHarry Spiller. 264 1 Jefferson, N.C. : |bMcFarland & Co., |c[2009] 264 4 |c©2009 300 233 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 505 0 Gunnery Sergeant Edward Sturgeon, captured while in defense of Wake Island -- Sergeant Alvel L. Stricklin, captured during the Battle of the Bulge -- Technical Sergeant Thomas Harold Boardman, captured during a bombing mission over Germany -- Private Benjamin Dunn, captured on Java Island during the Japanese invasion -- Sergeant William Robert Carr, captured after being shot down on a bombing mission over Germany -- Corporal Kenneth M. Smith, captured during the Battle of the Bulge -- Sergeant Charles Branum, captured during the fall of Bataan -- Technical Sergeant Gordon K. Butts, shot down over Mostar, Yugoslavia, during an air raid -- Staff Sergeant Edwin Douglass, Jr., captured in Nancy, France -- Corporal Ralph L. Lape, Sr., captured during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines -- Lieutenant Thomas J. Hart, captured during an offensive in Burma after being left for dead -- Staff Sergeant R. L. Hulsey -- Captured after being shot down over Solingen, Germany -- Appendix A : Japanese prisoner of war camps, 1941-1945 -- Appendix B : approximate locations of prison camps -- Appendix C. German regulations concerning prisoners of war. 520 "These 12 accounts describe hardship, brutality, frostbite, hunger, strenuous working conditions, and the release in the words of the soldiers, portraying the Bataan Death March, Wake Island, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and the camps where they watched their comrades in arms suffer and perish. The book also features photographs, maps, camp lists, and POW regulations"--Provided by publisher. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Prisoners of war |zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 Prisoners of war |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 Prisoners of war |zJapan |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, American. 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft 856 40 |3Electronic version(s) available. |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=1983629 |zHosted by ProQuest 852 0 |bstacks |hD805.G3 |iS727 2009 852 |bebook