| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 W553 2008 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16280 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1604419814 (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 - Wilber, Dale
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The last voyage of the Arisan Maru
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Dale Wilber
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Baltimore [Md.] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - PublishAmerica,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2008.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 242 p. :
- Other physical details - map ,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Researched account of perhaps the most tragic of the Japanese POW ships, also known as hell ships. 1800 American POWs began the hellish voyage and were brutally treated on board. The ship was sunk by a US submarine which did not know that it was carrying prisoners of war (it was not marked). The Japanese refused to rescue the POWs who survived; only eight were ultimately picked up by other ships or by sailing to China. The author's father (Sgt. Avery Wilber) was one of them. The author (a Vietnam War veteran), through interviews with other survivors and research, was able to piece together the horror of the voyage, and the unbelievable tale of survival his father experienced. - 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 - Arisan Maru (Ship).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Soldiers
- Geographic subdivision - Navarino.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945.
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