| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 R36 2000 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14240 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (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 - Rand, James L.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1912-1999
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Bataan diary
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - James L. Rand ; recorded by Willard Rand and Paul Rand
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - s.n.],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2000.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 70 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 28 x 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal diary of an American soldier, who volunteered for duty at the age of 28. His diary covers his army life, from training, shipping out to the Philippines, pre-war life in Manila, through the outbreak of war and the battle of Bataan. Rand was with a machine gun unit attached to the 31st Infantry Regiment (US Army). This part of the diary shows war as seen from a private's eye: not seeing the larger picture and having to move from place to place (it also has a number of misspellings of place names, which is understandable). His wartime diary ends abruptly on March 11, 1942; it resumes when Rand is a prisoner of war in Cabanatuan, in March 1943, and continues through the rest of his prisoner of war ordeal in Japan. He was lucky in the sense that he was sent to Japan in 1943, before the horror of the hell ships. There is another large gap in his diary in 1944-45, probably because of the drudgery of prison camp and labor details. The diary is filled with Rand's own recollections, and information from official histories. The book also includes the experiences of his two brothers, who also enlisted in the US armed forces but served in different theaters (not in the Philippines). Originally published in the early 1980s, the book in the Hall collection is the second printing (2002), put out after Rand's death. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Rand, James L.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1912-1999
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Soldiers
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- 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.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Bataan.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 31st Infantry Regiment (US)
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Cabanatuan
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - POW ship
- Uncontrolled term - pre-war Manila
- Uncontrolled term - war and POW diary
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Rand, Paul
- Personal name - Rand, Willard
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