| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 .W55 1992 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13611 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 899507603 (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 .W55 1992
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Wills, Donald H.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Sea was my last chance :
- Remainder of title - memoir of an American captured on Bataan in 1942 who escaped in 1944 and led the liberation of Western Mindanao /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Donald H. Wills ; with Reyburn W. Myers
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, NC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland & Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1992.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xvii, 169 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an officer with the 26th Cavalry Regiment on Bataan. Wills begins his story with the last days on Bataan, where, in the day before the surrender, he had to be hospitalized. Spared from the Death March, he remained in the hospital for a few weeks, was transferred to Bilibid Prison and then to Cabanatuan. Later in 1942, Wills was moved to Davao Penal Colony; in June 1944, he was placed on a prison ship and taken out of Mindanao when a US submarine torpedoed it (this was the Shinyo Maru); Wills and several other prisoners were able to escape and join the guerrillas. Over two thirds of the book details Wills' activities on Mindanao, particularly life with the guerrillas and offensive operations from late 1944 until the end of the war. He was active in guerrilla campaigns in Misamis, Malabang, Dipolog and other areas, and helped advancing US infantry by pinpointing Japanese positions from the air. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Wills, Donald H.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1918-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Escapes
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Soldiers
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Mindanao.
- 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, Japanese.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts)
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - Davao Penal Colony
- Uncontrolled term - hell ship Shinyo Maru
- Uncontrolled term - Mindanao guerrillas
- Uncontrolled term - Mindanao liberation campaign
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Myers, Reyburn W.
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