| Location |
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| Item Call Number |
D 811 T46 1990 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14444 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 962678902 (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 811 T46 1990
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Thomas, Edward E.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - As I remember :
- Remainder of title - the death march of Bataan /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ed "Tommie" Thomas
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Sonoita, AZ :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The Author,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1990.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xviii, 256 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Ed "Tommie" Thomas survived a firing squad to tell his story of the Bataan Death March and survival as a prisoner at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan. He was liberated at Cabanatuan on January 30, 1945 by the daring Sixth Ranger Raid. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of a young American who enlisted to get out of the Great Depression. He volunteered for the Signal Corps and after training was sent to the Philippines where he was assigned to the signal unit. He narrates his life in the army, life in Manila before the war (including a radio intercept station and tunnels in Fort McKinley), and, the main part of his book, his experiences during the war: installing a submarine cable between Bataan and Corregidor; experiences in Corregidor and Bataan; the surrender (he tries to escape but fails; is sentenced to death by firing squad but is spared) and Death March; imprisonment by the Japanese (Camp O'Donnell; Cabanatuan); liberation by the Rangers in January 1945. Additional subtitles on the cover and title page: "A Barge from Corregidor, a March from Bataan, a Fence at Cabanatuan" - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Thomas, Edward E.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan Death March
- General subdivision - Personal narratives.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Bataan (Province).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
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