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| Item Call Number |
D 811 D3 G38 1999 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13972 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 786865105 (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 - Gause, Damon
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - with an Introduction by Damon L. Gause
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - 1st ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York, NY :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Hyperion,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1999.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xxxiii, 183 p. :
- Dimensions - 21 x 13 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Gause was an American dive-bomber pilot with the 27th Bombardment Group, arriving just days before the war started - the group's planes never arrived. He thus fought as an infantry officer on Bataan. Gause describes Manila on the eve of the Japanese entry, his hurried evacuation to Bataan, and conditions in Bataan during the siege and surrender. Rather than become a prisoner of war, he managed to swim to Corregidor. When Corregidor surrendered to the invading Japanese, Gause decided to escape by swimming, together with a Filipino pilot officer, Lt. Alberto S. Arranzaso, to Batangas. Arranzaso was hit by a Japanese plane and later died, but Gause managed to make it. Through the assistance of Filipino friends, he was able to return to Manila, posing as a Spaniard; he returned to Batangas where he took a boat on a perilous voyage to Australia, together with another American officer, Capt. William Osborne. This memoir details Major Gause's remarkable 159-day escape from the Japanese. Gause himself died while testing a new fighter over Europe in 1944. He had written this memoir after his return to the US, based on the journal he kept on the voyage. His son, Damon L. Gause, provides a useful introduction and epilogue to properly situate his father's narrative. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army Air Forces
- General subdivision - Biography.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns.
- 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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