| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 H45 2003 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14051 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1591604974 (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 - Heisinger, Duane
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Father found
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Duane Heisinger
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l.] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Xulon Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2003.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 584 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - A thoroughly and lovingly researched account by a son reconstructing the experiences and ordeals of his father, Samuel Lawrence Heisinger. The elder Heisinger (already 38) joined the US Army for posting in the Philippines, and got caught by the war as an officer in Manila. He did not return home. The author, his son, last saw his father when he was ten years old; he dedicated his retirement years contacting veterans who knew his father and conducting extensive research, including visiting sites in the Philippines. This book is a painstaking effort at tracing the last years of a son's father in Manila, Corregidor, Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp, Nichols field forced labor, Davao Penal Colony, and the horror of the hell ship Oryoku Maru in December 1944. Lawrence, along with other survivors of this ship, was transferred to the Enoura Maru which was again bombed by US planes (which did not know that prisoners were on board). Lawrence died of disease days after the second ship was bombed. Duane Heisinger pieces together all available evidence to reconstruct his father's story. - 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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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