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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 804 .J3 P43 2001 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13626 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 451204441 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Pearson, Judith L.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Belly of the beast :
- Remainder of title - a POW's inspiring true story of faith, courage, and survival aboard the infamous WWII Japanese hell ship Oryoku Maru /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Judith L. Pearson
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York, NY :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - New American Library,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2001.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiv, 272 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 21 x 14 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - This book tells the story of Estel Myers, a US Navy corpsman who arrived in the Philippines just before the start of the war. He was assigned to the naval hospital in Cañacao, Cavite, and hard-pressed to tend to the large numbers of wounded from the Japanese raid on Cavite Navy Yard. The hospital transferred to Santa Scholastica College in Manila, and, with the fall of Corregidor, to Bilibid. The focus of the book, however, is on the hell ship Oryoku Maru, which Myers and over 16,000 prisoners of war were forced to board. The ship was bombed and sunk in Subic Bay by US planes, but Japanese guards shot, killed and maltreated the survivors; they were transferred to another prison ship which also was bombed in Taiwan; a third ship took only a few hundred survivors to Japan. It was the worst of the hell ship voyages, and Myers fought to survive and help others pull through. The author, an associate member of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, interviewed most of the surviving POWs and consulted archival materials to write this moving account. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Myers, Estel Browning,
- Dates associated with a name - 1920-1973.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Oryoku Maru (Prison ship).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - War crimes
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Atrocities.
- 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 - American experiences
- Uncontrolled term - US Naval hospital
- Uncontrolled term - Santa Scholastica College
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
- Uncontrolled term - hell ship Oryoku Maru
- Uncontrolled term - Cañacao
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
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