| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 10 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16168 |
| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
|
| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - MS RH 10
|
| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Mendelson, Sheldon H.
|
| Title Statement |
- Title - Operations of the Provisional Air Corps Regiment in the defense of Bataan Peninsula, P.I., 8 January-10 April 1942 (Philippine Islands Campaign) :
- Remainder of title - personal experience of a platoon leader /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Sheldon H. Mendelson
- Medium - [manuscript]
|
| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Fort Benning, Ga. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The Infantry School, General Section, Military History Committee,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1947].
|
| Physical Description |
- Extent - 25, [2] leaves :
- Other physical details - maps ;
- Dimensions - 32 x 25 cm.
- Accompanying material - + 1 compact disc (digital, 4 3/4 cm.)
- Extent - application/pdf (.pdf) 413 KB
|
| Content Type |
|
| Media Type |
|
| Carrier Type |
|
| General Note |
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
|
| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Author was an infantry officer assigned to a provisional unit created in Bataan. The unit was composed of mechanics and ground crew of the US Army Air Corps, who were made to fight as infantrymen on the ground rather than fight in the air, since US air forces were largely destroyed at the start of the war.
His monograph discusses the experience of training and employing this unit in the front lines, something the men had not been trained to do. In the end, the provisional regiment proved its worth, but paid the price: it ceased to exist with the surrender of the Bataan and most of its members died as prisoners of war of the Japanese. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
|
| Language Note |
|
| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
|
| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Battle of the Points
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - Provisional Air Corps Regiment (US)
- Uncontrolled term - US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
|
