| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 H64 2016 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17947 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781476665689 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 767.4
- Item number - H64 2016
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Hofmann, Ross E.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1917-1996,
- Relator term - author.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Escape from Bataan :
- Remainder of title - Memoir of a U.S. Navy Ensign in the Philippines, October 1941 to May 1942 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ross E. Hofmann ; edited by David L. Snead and Anne B. Craddock.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, North Carolina :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [2016]
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - viii, 218 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations, maps ;
- Dimensions - 26 cm
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
- Media type term - unmediated
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| Carrier Type |
- Carrier type term - volume
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Training and movement overseas -- The Philippines, October-November 1941 -- On the eve of war -- Time of destruction, December 8-12, 1941 -- Retreat from Cavite, December 1941 -- Christmas and New Year's at Mariveles -- The waiting begins -- The Battle of the Points -- Alarms and excursions -- Desperation before new orders -- Welcome to Cebu -- Retreat again -- Mission complete : Lake Lanao and Australia -- Epilogue -- Afterword by Anne B. Craddock -- Appendix: Hofmann's address before the Washington Board of Trade, November 13, 1944
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months later, Japanese forces struck the Philippines, destroying the base and forcing U.S. personnel to retreat to Bataan. There, Hoffman joined a makeshift unit of Army Aircorps ground personnel, U.S. Marines, U.S. sailors, U.S. Naval ground battalions and Filipinos to fight a Japanese force that landed nearby.
In March 1942, with the fall of Bataan imminent, he traveled to Cebu to run supplies through the blockade of Bataan and Corregidor. Soon after his arrival, the Japanese landed on Cebu, forcing the Americans to retreat again. Hiking through jungles and crossing dangerous waters in barely seaworthy vessels, Hofmann avoided capture and reached an American base in Mindanao.
He received orders to establish a seaplane base on Lake Lanao. As Japanese troops landed nearby, two seaplanes returning from Corregidor stopped to refuel, one of them hitting a submerged rock on take-off. In a harrowing race against thee enemy advance, Hofmann and others worked feverishly to fix the plane and escape before the Japanese converged on Lake Lanao. This memoir recounts Hofmann's experiences in vivid detail."
- Summary, etc. - The author, a US Navy ensign, arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. In March 1942 he was sent to Cebu to run supplies through the Blockade of Bataan and Corregidor. After the Japanese landing in Cebu, he escaped to Mindanao and was ordered to establish a seaplane base on Lake Lanao. With Japanese troops nearby, a seaplane was damaged on take-off. The author and others worked feverishly to fix the plane and escape before the Japanese converged on the Lake Lanao. - Roderick Hall
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Hofmann, Ross E.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1917-1996.
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States.
- Subordinate unit - Navy
- Form subdivision - Biography.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Form subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Snead, David L.
- Fuller form of name - (David Lindsey),
- Relator term - editor.
- Personal name - Craddock, Anne B.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1948-
- Relator term - editor.
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