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| Item Call Number |
D 805 P6 T47 1995 |
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| Barcode |
14072 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 28811259 (hardbound)
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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 T47 1995
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Tenney, Lester I.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - My hitch in hell: the Bataan death march
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Lester I. Tenney
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Washington :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Brassey's 1995,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1995.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xx, 220 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 25 x 17 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Tenney spent 3½ years as a Japanese prisoner of war between capture at the fall of the Philippines and liberation after Nagasaki and presents here a detailed memoir of one of the few men to survive the Bataan death march. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account by a young American, who, recently married, was called to active duty with the 192nd Tank Battalion and sent to the Philippines just prior to the outbreak of war. Tenney fought in delaying battles in Luzon and Bataan but became a prisoner of war when Gen. King surrendered to the Japanese. He participated in the Death March, describing its horrors in detail. He spent the rest of the war in prison camps in Camp O'Donnell (where he escaped and lived with guerrillas for a while, before being recaptured by the Japanese), Bataan labor detail, Cabanatuan, hell ship Toro Maru, and forced labor in Japanese mines near Nagasaki. He recounts the brutalities he saw and which were inflicted on him; he saw the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb exploded. On returning home to the US, he found out that his wife had remarried, but he doggedly picked up the pieces, finished college and became a college professor. For years he hated the Japanese, but he changed and visited Japan, speaking Nippongo to Japanese (he had picked up the language in prison camp). Since then he has been giving talks about the Death March and prison camp life in the US and in Japan so that the younger generation would not forget. Tenney includes a list of the men in his unit and their fates - most died while prisoners of war. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Tenney, Lester I.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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