| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 .W35 1988 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13612 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 962238104 (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 .W35 1988
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Waldron, Ben D.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Corregidor, from paradise to hell :
- Remainder of title - true narrative of Ben Waldron, prisoner-of-war /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Ben D. Waldron and Emily Burneson
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - B. D. Waldron],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1988.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiii, 240 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Waldron was a private and just 19 years old when the war started; he was a gunner in Battery Chicago, an anti-aircraft battery on Corregidor. He narrates pre-war life on the island fortress; the start of the war; combat on Corregidor and fighting in the last day. (His account of the final battle in his battery, however, has been questioned.) He details the ordeals he experienced as a prisoner of war on Corregidor's 92nd Garage area, Bilibid, Cabanatuan; hell ship to Japan, and forced labor in Japan until the end of the war. He vividly describes his guards and those who were particularly inhuman. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Waldron, Ben D.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Corregidor Island.
- 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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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Corregidor Island (Philippines)
- General subdivision - History.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (US)
- Uncontrolled term - anti-aircraft battery
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Burneson, Emily
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