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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805.5 .P35 W55 2004 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13832 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 786418222 (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 - Wilbanks, Bob
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Last man out :
- Remainder of title - Glenn McDole, USMC, survivor of the Palawan massacre in World War II /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Bob Wilbanks
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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. - c2004.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - ix, 169 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Researched account by a retired journalist of the experiences of Glen McDole, a US Marine assigned to the 1st Separate Marine Battalion in Cavite. When the war broke out, he was in the Cavite Navy Yard, then sent to Los Baños, to guard American flying boats. He saw action in Corregidor and was on Fort Hughes (Caballo Island) when Corregidor was invaded by the Japanese. He became a prisoner of war and was sent to Palawan to build airfields for the Japanese. One of the war's worst atrocities took place in Palawan on December 14, 1944, when the prisoners of war detailed to work on the airfields were ordered into air raid shelters. The Japanese poured gasoline and set them on fire; of 150 American POWs, only 11 managed to escape. McDole was one of them, and he was assisted to freedom by Filipino guerrillas. Wilbanks details the terrible incident and its aftermath, and also McDole's testifying in Yokohama against his former guards. Ironically, none of the Japanese responsible for the atrocity were executed. Wilbanks tried to locate all eleven survivors, but was able to locate only four; most of the others had passed away or refused to talk about the massacre. A list of those killed is appended. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - McDole, Glenn.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Palawan Barracks (Concentration camp).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Palawan Massacre, Philippines, 1944.
- 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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Cavite
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Filipino guerrillas
- Uncontrolled term - Fort Hughes
- Uncontrolled term - Palawan Massacre
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
- Uncontrolled term - war crimes trials
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