| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 S465 2000 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13692 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 738847763 (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 - Sheldon, Warren C.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Secretary of war shares your grief :
- Remainder of title - the brief existence of Captain Milton Jerome Sheldon /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Warren C. Sheldon
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l.] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Xlibris Corp.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2000.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 386 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 22 x 14 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Jerome Sheldon was a promising young man who had just become a regular US Army officer when he was shipped off to the Philippines. He was an officer in the 57th Infantry Regiment (Philippine Scouts), and fought in Bataan; he was captured there in April 1942 and went on the Death March. He never returned home, having died in one of the prisoner of war camp in Japan. Since he did not return, the author of this book pieced together available evidence from letters, contacts with Bataan veterans and other sources to retrace his uncle's story. This book is also the story of Jerome's father, who fought with the US government to obtain his son's War Risk Insurance, which is initially denied. Only after ten years battling red tape - and seeking the help of congressmen, senators and even the president - was he successful. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Sheldon, Milton Jerome,
- Dates associated with a name - 1916-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
- 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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 57th Infantry Regiment (Philippine Scouts)
- Uncontrolled term - veterans benefits
- Uncontrolled term - POW
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - biography - American
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
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