| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.4 .G39 1976 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13804 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 533021464 (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 - DS 686.4 .G39 1976
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Gaskill, Robert C.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Guests of the son of heaven
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Robet C. Gaskill, in collaboration with Herbert R. Suess
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Vantage Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1976.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [vi], 138 p. :
- Dimensions - 21 x 15 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of a US Army medical officer in the defense of the Philippines and through prison camp life. Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and other locations as the Japanese landed, and then became I Corps surgeon during the siege of Bataan. He describes the defense briefly, and goes into more detail as a doctor treating prisoners of war in Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan, Bilibid, prison ship to Taiwan; another hell ship to Japan, where he was forced to work in a mine for Mitsubishi. He criticizes some of the officers in camp with him as pulling their weight to get better food and treatment. As a medical officer, Gaskill is able to comment authoritatively on the health conditions of the prisoners of war he was with. - 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 - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Bilibid Prison
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - Clark Field bombing
- Uncontrolled term - Fort Stotsenburg
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - medical activities
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Suess, Herbert R.
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