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| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 W43 1958 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13703 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (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 W43 1958
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Whitomb, Edgar D.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Escape from Corregidor
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Edgar D. Whitcomb
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Chicago :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Henry Regnery Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1958.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiv, 274 p. :
- Other physical details - maps ;
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - The story of a man who, determined not to give up, assumed the identity of an imaginary civilian and lived another man's life for almost two years in captivity whilst not losing his determination to escape. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of a B-17 bomber navigator in Clark when the war started, who wound up in Bataan waiting for planes to arrive - which never did. When Bataan surrendered, Whitcomb escaped on a boat to Corregidor. When Corregidor was invaded, Whitcomb attempted to escape but was eventually captured. Assuming a different identity, he was imprisoned and tortured in Fort Santiago, but convinced the Japanese that he was a civilian, and not a military man. He was interned at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, but managed to be repatriated to the US via Shanghai in late 1943. He returned to duty with the US Army Air Force, and in 1945 found himself back in the Philippines with a bomber squadron attacking Japanese forces. An amazing story told well. Whitcomb became a lawyer and a member of the Indiana State Senate after the war, and visited the Philippines to participate in Bataan Day ceremonies. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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 - Clark Field
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - Santo Tomas Internment Camp
- Uncontrolled term - US Army Air Corps
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