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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
U 53 .K58 S27 2002 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13803 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 312982496 (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 - Sasser, Charles W.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Raider :
- Remainder of title - the true story of the legendary soldier who performed more POW raids than any other American in history /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Charles W. Sasser
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - St. Martin's Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2002.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 319 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 18 x 11 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Saga of Galen Charles Kittleson, a young American who volunteered for the US Army in 1943. Only nineteen years old, he fought in the South Pacific and his courage was noticed by his superiors. He was chosen for the elite Alamo Scouts, landed behind enemy lines in Mindanao even as the Leyte campaign was just beginning, to contact guerrilla forces. He was a key player in the raid on Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp, in which surviving members of the Bataan and Corregidor campaign were on the verge of death.
The Cabanatuan Raid serves as the highlight of this book. After this significant raid, Kittleson participated in other raids by the Alamo Scouts afterwards. He was honorably discharged at the end of the war, bemedalled. During the Korean War, he enlisted and joined the Special Forces. He participated in several raids in Vietnam, including the daring but unsuccessful attempt to free American POWs at the Son Tay prison.
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Kittleson, Galen Charles.
- Personal name - Sontay Raid,
- Dates associated with a name - 1970.
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army. Special Forces
- General subdivision - Biography.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Raids (Military science).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Concentration Camps
- Geographic subdivision - Cabanatuan.
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