| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 W298 1999 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13698 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 967373301 (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 - Wallace, John W.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - POW-83 :
- Remainder of title - the powerful true story of what really happened to American prisoners of war in the Japanese death camps in the Philippines during World War II and of one man's struggle to survive at the hands of his brutal captors /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by John W. Wallace
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The Gray Rider Pub.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1999.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 264 p. :
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - This book is the biography of Pfc. John Mackowski, who was drafted into the US Army in 1940, and sent to the Philippines to become a member of the 803rd Engineers. Half of the book covers his youth, training in the army, arrival and pre-war life in the Philippines, service in Bataan and Corregidor; the remaining half narrates how he survived being a prisoner-of-war in Bilibid, Camp O'Donnell, Davao, and finally being transported on the Shinyo Maru hell ship. The ship was sunk by an American submarine on September 7, 1944, but Mackowski, along with 82 other POWs, managed to survive and made it to shore, where guerrillas rescued him. A few weeks later, the survivors were evacuated to Australia on board the submarine USS Narwhal. The author, a retired police officer, knew Mackowski personally; he includes statements from other survivors, photographs, and a list of all who survived the ship's sinking. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Wallace, John W., Lt. Col.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- 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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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - pre-war Philippines
- Uncontrolled term - POW
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - hell ship Shinyo Maru
- Uncontrolled term - Davao Penal Colony
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - biography - American
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
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