| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 M53 2001 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17823 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1570900973 (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 M53 2000
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Middleton, T. Walter,
- Dates associated with a name - 1918-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Flashbacks :
- Remainder of title - prisoner of war in the Philippines /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - T. Walter Middleton ; foreword by Ralph Roberts
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Alexander, NC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Alexander Books,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2000, 2001
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 191 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Appalachia beginning -- Induction -- Organized -- Ship ahoy -- Aloha -- Manila -- Del Carmen -- War! -- General MacArthur's war -- Orange 3 -- Abuccay hacienda -- Backing up the troops -- The Orion-Bagac line -- Kilometer 169 -- Company B's last night together -- The Bataan March of Death -- A train ride -- Prison -- The burying ditch -- Once upon a mountain -- A near human surprise -- My best friend -- Prayer time -- The forks of the road -- Jungle horrors -- "At any cost" -- Buzzards -- Leaving the tropics -- The Tottori Maru -- Pusan Korea -- Zero ward -- Dr. Ishii's clinic -- Making a comeback -- Moved into town -- Activities in camp -- Mukden with each passing year -- Factory things -- When the tide turned -- Across town -- The Emperor's speech -- Sowing wild oats -- Our last month in Mukden -- No guns now -- Typhoon -- Okinawa -- Back to Stateside -- Homeward bound -- A post war revelation -- About the author
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Middleton was drafted in 1941 and sent to the Philippines as a member of the 803rd Engineer Battalion. He was at Del Carmen airfield when the war broke out, and was moved to Bataan to build airfields for planes that never came. He was among those who had to surrender in April 1942, went on the Death March and endured the horrors of Camp O'Donnell. He was sent with a detachment of Japanese and other POWs to the mountains of northern Luzon, before being sent to Korea on board a prison ship and on to Mukden, Manchuria. There he worked for the Japanese under threat of death. After being released at the end of the war, his troubles continued when he and other prisoners were locked up in a psychiatric ward in the US, where several went crazy or were injured. Only after some time were they treated decently, after the army tried to cover up what had happened. His memoirs bring out the best and the worst in man that he had personally seen. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Middleton, T. Walter,
- Dates associated with a name - 1918-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- 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 - Concentration Camps
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- 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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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 803rd Engineering Battalion
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Camp O'Donnell
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - Del Carmen field
- Uncontrolled term - ex-POW maltreatment in US: army cover ups
- Uncontrolled term - forced labor
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
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