| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 G38 1997 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14049 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1889893099 (softbound)
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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 - D 805 .P6 G38 1997
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Gautier, James Donovan
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| Title Statement |
- Title - I came back from Bataan
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - James Donovan Gautier, Jr. with Robert L. Whitmore
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Greenville, SC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Emerald House Group,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1997.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [x], 215 p., A1-14 p. :
- Dimensions - 18 x 13 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an American mechanic with the US Army Air Corps' 27th Bombardment Group when the war started. The 27th Bomb Group did not have any planes as they were still en route to the Philippines on December 8, 1941. Gautier and his colleagues thus fought the war as infantrymen in Bataan, were ordered to surrender on April 9, and went on the Death March. He narrates his sufferings as a prisoner of war (he was slapped and punished by the Japanese for minor infractions); as a mechanic he was forced to serve the Japanese in repairing and driving trucks for them in Baguio. He writes about how he and fellow American POWs sabotaged some of the trucks (he drove one over the road to deliberately destroy it, was punished for it). After the stint in Baguio, Gautier was sent to Cabanatuan, went on the hell ship to Japan, was forced to work as a mine worker, and was eventually liberated. He writes about postwar injustices, and the waste of skilled manpower caused by the war and faulty plans. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Gautier, James Donovan.
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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 - Bataan.
- 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.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Bataan (Philippines: Province)
- General subdivision - History, Military.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Whitmore, Robert L.
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