| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 J23 2004 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13674 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 874808065 (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 805 .J3 J23 2004
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Jacobsen, Gene Samuel
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| Title Statement |
- Title - We refused to die :
- Remainder of title - my time as a prisoner of war in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Gene S. Jacobsen ; illustrations by Benjamin Charles Steele
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Salt Lake City, UT :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The University of Utah Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2004.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - x, 273 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account by a teenager who joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was sent to the Philippines as the supply sergeant of the 10th Pursuit Squadron, based at Clark Field. He witnessed the bombing of Clark Field, saw action in Bataan and marched the Death March. He vividly describes his life as a prisoner of war in Camp O'Donnell, the Tayabas work detail, Bilibid, Cabanatuan, and then shipment to Japan and forced labor in the coal mines of Omuta, Japan. Of his squadron, only sixty five returned home. After the war, Jacobsen became a professor of education at the University of Utah. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Jacobsen, Gene Samuel,
- Dates associated with a name - 1921-.
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army. Air Corps. Pursuit Squadron, 20th.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - Biography.
- 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 - Philippines.
- 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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