| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 B635 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16262 |
| 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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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Bodine, Roy L.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - No place for kindness :
- Remainder of title - the prisoner of war diary of Roy L. Bodine. /
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Fort Sam Houston, Tex. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Fort Sam Houston Museum,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1983].
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xv, 87 p. :
- Dimensions - 28 x 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - with Bodine Diary
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Dr. Bodine was a major in the US Army Dental Corps who served in Bataan. With the surrender on April 9, 1942, he became a prisoner of war. He kept a detailed diary, which was against Japanese regulations and could have led to his death if found.
This book publishes his diary entries (originally written on school composition notebooks) from October 19, 1944 to February 1945, and then for the end of war, where he was liberated by American troops in Korea. This portion of his diary is important because it details the horrors experienced by Bodine in the hell ship Oryoku Maru, which was bombed, strafed and sunk by American planes in Subic Bay. He managed to survive, but was transferred to another prison ship which was also bombed by American planes. In the end, he wound up in a prison camp in Korea.
Bodine donated the original diaries to the Fort Sam Houston Museum, which also published this book. Bodine died in 2006. - 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 - 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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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Oryoku Maru
- Uncontrolled term - personal account – American
- Uncontrolled term - POW diary
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