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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 J18 2003 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13675 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 345449118 (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 - Jackson, Charles R.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - I am alive! :
- Remainder of title - a United States marine's story of survival in a World War II Japanese POW camp /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - U.S. Marine Sergeant Major Charles R. Jackson ; edited by Major Bruce H. Norton, USMC (Ret.)
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Presidio Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2003.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xvi, 301 p. :
- Dimensions - 18 x 11 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Memoir of a member of the 4th Marine Regiment, sent to the Philippines from Shanghai just prior to the war. Jackson's story is unique: he had actually graduated from West Point and served as an officer with the US Army, but resigned in 1925; he joined the Marines as an enlisted man in 1927. He was with the 4th Marines since 1940; in the Philippines he fought on Bataan, and then manned beach defenses on Corregidor. He became a prisoner of war, escaped, joined the guerrillas but got malaria. He was recaptured, punished and returned to prison camp. This memoir is not typical in that it does not provide a chronological record of Jackson's own experiences, but rather are character sketches and vignettes of persons and events in POW camp, including the rare humane Japanese. Jackson realized that US forces had also committed their share of atrocities in Bataan and had not followed Japanese terms of surrender strictly. He wrote most of these stories in 1948; they were not published until 2003. Jackson took his own life in 1971. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Jackson, Charles.
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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 - 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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