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| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 .D39 2008 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
15281 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780786433964 (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 767.4 .D39 2008
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Decker, Malcolm,
- Dates associated with a name - 1946-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - From Bataan to safety :
- Remainder of title - the rescue of 104 American soldiers in the Philippines /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Malcolm Decker.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, N.C. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2008.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - ix, 222 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.maps ,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Extensively researched account of the camp set up by the twins Bill and Martin Fassoth, in the Zambales mountains. The author, a Vietnam War veteran and son of one of the Bataan veterans saved by the Fassoths, narrates the start of the war in Clark Field, the Bataan campaign and the beginning of the Death March. He gives details of the Americans who escaped the march and were cared for by the Fassoth brothers and Bill's Filipina wife Catalina. The Fassoths were sugar planters in Luzon, and used their own money and resources to shelter these American escapees. The Japanese raided the camp's surroundings several times, narrowly missing the camp itself. The Japanese were finally able to force the Fassoths to give up, and the escapees were placed in prison camps, where many died. Decker painstakingly recreates the story of the camp, the guerrilla resistance movement in the camp's environs, and the fates of the key actors. Appendices provide lists of those aided by the Fassoths, and their fates. The Fassoths themselves were awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US government after the war. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Fassoth, Bill,
- Dates associated with a name - 1890-1957.
- Personal name - Fassoth, Martin,
- Dates associated with a name - 1890-1982.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- 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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - assistance to POWs
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - Fassoth's camp
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW escape
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