| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 K5 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14234 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 967495601 (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 .J3 K5
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - King, Otis H.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The alamo of the Pacific :
- Remainder of title - the story of the famed "China Marines" on Bataan and Corregidor and what they did to the enemy as POWs /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Otis H. King
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Fort Worth, TX :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Branch-Smith,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1999.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xviii, 238 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Otis King, Sgt. USMC 1939 - 1947, wrote this account more than 50 years after the events. Following the war he had been a newsman and broadcast journalist for 25 years. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of a young American who joined the US Marines when only 14 years old (no birth certificate was required). He was sent to the 4th Marine Regiment in Shanghai in 1940 and moved with the unit to the Philippines, arriving just days before the war started.
17 years old at the time, he recounts his experiences at the start of the war, the bombing of Olongapo (where the 4th Marines were), transfer to Bataan and then Corregidor, where the regiment stayed until the Japanese invasion in May 1942. He continues on to describe how he became a prisoner of the Japanese, and the tricks the Marines performed to sabotage the Japanese.
King describes not only his own experiences, but also those of his unit and fellow marines whom he had known, and with information gathered from research in Washington DC. After the war, King stayed with the marines for two more years, after which he became a journalist. - 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 - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - Biography.
- 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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