| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 .V36 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13605 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 767.4 .V36
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Vance, John R.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Doomed garrison :
- Remainder of title - the Philippines (a POW story) /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - John R. Vance
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Ashland, OR :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Cascade House,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1974.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [viii], 248 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal experiences of the Philippine defense campaign (1941-1942) from a different perspective: the author was the Finance officer of the US Army in the Philippines. Col. Vance narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940, and his duties as US Army finance officer. He was responsible for disbursing money for all supplies bought, labor hired, vehicles and ships commandeered, and above all paying for all Philippine Army expenses since it had come into the service of the US. He details how, even during the siege of Bataan and Corregidor, bills had to be paid, and money sent to the southern islands to allow military units to continue to make purchases and pay their men. With the fall of Corregidor, Vance became a prisoner of war; the Japanese knew who he was and questioned him endlessly about the location of money. He was moved to Bilibid, then Tarlac, Taiwan and finally Manchuria, where he was when the war ended. After his return to the US, he was charged $71 million dollars for cash advances he had made in 1941 and 1942. An important memoir which shows how army finance works during war. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Vance, John R.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Finances
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
- Uncontrolled term - POW ship
- Uncontrolled term - US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
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