| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 D84 2003 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14040 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1930859570 (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 - Duggan, William J.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Silence of a soldier :
- Remainder of title - the memoirs of a Bataan Death March survivor /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - [as told to] William J. Duggan
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Oakland :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Elderberry Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2003.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 108 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.maps,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - "The memoirs of Bub Merrill, Bataan Death March survivor"--Cover After surviving the horrors of the Bataan Death March, Bub Merrill was shipped to slave labour camps in Manchuria. Three years later he found his way home to Algonac, Michigan.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Bub Merrill was a high school graduate who was drafted into the US Army in 1941. Assigned to the 803rd Aviation Engineers, he was shipped to the Philippines and saw action less than a month after arrival, attacked while working at upgrading Del Carmen field in Pampanga. Most of the book deals with Merrill's prisoner of war experiences, from the Death March to Camp O'Donnell, Bontoc, Cabanatuan, and prison ship to Korea, and on to Manchuria, where he was eventually liberated. William Duggan, a retired college professor, first met Merrill when the Merrills moved next door. After getting to know each other, Duggan decided to write Merrill's story. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Merrill, Smith.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
- 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.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 803rd Aviation Engineers
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Merrill, Smith
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