| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 36 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16202 |
| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - MS RH 36
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army. Far East Command.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Japanese monograph no. 2 :
- Remainder of title - Philippine operations record. Phase I. Dec. 41-Apr. 42
- Medium - [manuscript]
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Tokyo?] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The Command,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1946?.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [109] leaves :
- Dimensions - 32 x 25 cm.
- Accompanying material - + 1 compact disc (digital ; 4 3/4 cm.)
- Extent - application/pdf (.pdf) 255 MB
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Series Statement |
- Series statement - Japanese monograph ; no. 2.
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| General Note |
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - “Invasion plans, preparations, and operations of the 16th and 48th Divisions. Operational plans of the 4th Division for the second phase of the Bataan Operation. Some data on Corregidor and other Manila Bay fortifications and installations. Gives detailed information on artillery, including missions, employment, and firing data. Outlines General Homma’s personal estimate of the Bataan situation as of February 1942 and gives a resume of U.S. defense operations on Luzon, Bataan, and Corregidor. Many maps and charts. (Unedited translation, 109 pages)”
Essentially documentary appendices to Japanese Monograph No. 1: orders, maps, charts, mostly on the Bataan and Corregidor campaign. Includes landing and operation plans, details of Corregidor and other harbor forts after their fall; estimates of US strategy in Luzon; Gen. Homma’s notes during the Bataan campaign. The 16th and 48th Divisions were Japanese Army divisions which invaded the Philippines in December 1941; the 4th Division was sent to bolster Homma’s forces in March 1942. Not all maps translated or included here. Handwritten annotations/corrections. Nothing on Japanese maltreatment of the Filipino and American prisoners of war.
*Citations in quotation marks from:
U.S. Army. Office of the Chief of Military History. "Guide to Japanese Monographs and Japanese Studies on Manchuria." Ca. early 1960s. - 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 - Corregidor Island (Philippines)
- General subdivision - History, Military.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Japan
- General subdivision - History, Military
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Japan
- General subdivision - Rikugun.
- 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
- Geographic subdivision - Bataan.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Gen. Masaharu Homma
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese 14th Army
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese 16th Division
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese 48th Division
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese Army operations
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese conquest of the Philippines
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese invasion of the Philippines
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| Series Uniform Title |
- Uniform title - Japanese monograph
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