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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 J33 1985 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14456 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 806223006 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Jacobs, Eugene C.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Blood brothers :
- Remainder of title - a medic's sketch book /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Col. Eugene C. Jacobs ; edited by Sam Rohlfing
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - Limited ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Carlton Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1985.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 128 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 21 x 15 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal memoir of a medical doctor in the US Army; he was commanding officer of the Camp John Hay hospital when the war began. The only regular army military doctor in northern Luzon, Jacobs was severely tested from the first day of the war, when the camp was bombed. Unable to get to Bataan because of the speed of the Japanese advance, Jacobs joined Lt. Col. Everett Warner, Lt. Col. Guillermo Nakar and other officers in the 1st Guerrilla Regiment in the Cagayan area. After the surrender of Corregidor, Col. Warner surrendered his command to the Japanese and Jacobs became a prisoner of war. He served as a camp doctor in Cabanatuan, then Bilibid Prison. He was on board the hell ship Oryoku Maru when it was sunk in Subic Bay; transferred to the Enoura Maru and the Brazil Maru, he managed to survive until Fukuoka, and was finally transferred to Mukden, Manchuria, where he was liberated in 1945. The title of this memoir comes from the Japanese practice of grouping POWs into ten: if one escaped, the other nine would be executed. The members of the group of ten were thus known as "blood brothers." Illustrated by sketches drawn by the author in POW camp in a small notebook he picked up on the way. - 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 - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Atrocities.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- 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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