| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 H36 1987 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14053 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 208021469 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Hayes, Thomas,
- Dates associated with a name - 1898-1945
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Bilibid diary :
- Remainder of title - the secret notebooks of Commander Thomas Hayes, POW the Philippines 1942-45 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - edited by A.B. Feuer
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Hamden, Conn. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Archon Books,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1987.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xxii, 248 p., [14] p. of plates :
- Other physical details - ill.maps,
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Commander Thomas Hirst Hayes was a doctor in the US Navy Medical Corps stationed at the Navy Hospital of the 16th Naval District in Cavite. He arrived in August 1941; with the arrival of the 4th US Marine Regiment from China, he was promoted and assigned as the regiment's chief medical officer. He stayed with the regiment throughout the siege of Corregidor, and became a prisoner of war of the Japanese when the fortress surrendered. These diaries document the POW experience as Hayes saw it, as a naval officer and doctor. They cover the period July 2, 1942 to January, 1943, October 1, 1943 to September 17, 1944, and December 13, 1944 to January 30, 1945. He documents POW life and conditions in Bilibid, where he was eventually placed in charge of the hospital. Hayes had connections with agents outside Bilibid and conveyed information to them. He writes about Japanese cruelty but also Japanese humanity; and he disparages those Americans who gave up their scruples and became opportunists. Hayes did not survive the war: he was taken on the notorious Oryoku Maru and managed to survive its sinking; he made it to Taiwan but was killed when the unmarked Japanese hell ship he was on was bombed by American planes. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Hayes, Thomas,
- Dates associated with a name - 1898-1945.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bilibid Prison (Manila, Philippines).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Manila
- 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.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Feuer, A. B.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1925-
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