| Location |
MEMORARE |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 V55 1994 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
5529 |
| 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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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 V55 1994
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Vining, Virgil V.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Guest of an emperor
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Virgil V. Vining
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - 2nd ed.
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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. - 1994.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [vi], 351 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 14 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - This is a personal account of the defense of the Philippines, 1941-42, surrender and life as a prisoner of war under the Japanese. Vining’s perspective is different from most of the American personal accounts since he was a petty officer in the US Navy’s Asiatic Fleet, on board the minesweeper Bittern. The ship was destroyed in the Japanese raid of Cavite, and Vining was temporarily assigned to the minesweeper Finch, after which he wound up on Corregidor.
He briefly discusses his experiences from the start of the war until the surrender of Corregidor, and devotes most of his book on life as a prisoner of war, first on Corregidor, then having to make the forced march in Manila, and Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan, a lengthy stay on the atrocity-filled Nichols Field detail, transfer to Japan on the hell ship Nissyo Maru, and forced labor in Japan. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Vining, Virgil V.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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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