| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 B55 1991 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13704 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 899506054 (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 .P6 B55 1991
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Biilyeu, Dick
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Lost in action :
- Remainder of title - a World War II soldier's account of capture on Bataan & imprisonment by the Japanese /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Dick Bilyeu
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, NC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland & Co.
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1991
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vii, 343 p. :
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm
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| General Note |
- General note - The author began the book in 1973 and finished it ten years later. He relates events graphically as he saw them at the time and describes his task as hard but necessary so that those whose suffered and died should not be forgotten. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account by a coast artilleryman who began the war on Fort Hughes (Caballo Island), only to be transferred to Bataan as infantry, attached to a Philippine Army unit. He fought in the Battle of the Points, and saw action in the final battles on Bataan. He was one of those who was ordered to surrender on April 9, 1942, and narrates in detail his experiences in the Death March, prison and labor camps (Camp O'Donnell, Corregidor, Clark Field, Bilibid, Cabanatuan). He was brought to Japan on a hell ship, and put to work in a mine. Like many other veterans, he sought to put his past behind him, but later decided to put his experiences on paper. He began writing in 1973, but the horrors were so painful to remember that it took a full ten years to complete. Bilyeu relates events as he saw them; to protect the privacy of some individuals, he has changed some names. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Bilyeu, Dick,
- Dates associated with a name - 1921-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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 - 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 - Battle of the Points
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - Fort Hughes
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW
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