| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 66 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16323 |
| 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 66
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Herold, Ethel Thomas
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Ethel Thomas Herold :
- Remainder of title - World War II diary : December 7, 1941 to May 9, 1945 /
- Medium - [manuscript]
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - s.n.],
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 302 p.
- Dimensions - 28 x 22 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
- General note - Diary of an American civilian prisoner-of-war in the Philippines. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Ethel Herold was a young American wife whose husband was a sawmill operator. She lived with her two children in Baguio, where she was active in welfare activities to help the indigent in the city.
The start of the war brought chaos to their lives, which is documented in this day-by-day record of events as she witnessed and heard. She writes about the bombing on the first day of the war, the confusion brought about by the withdrawal of military forces, the arrival of the Japanese and internment in Camp John Hay and in Camp Holmes (now Camp Dangwa).
After MacArthur had landed in Leyte, the Baguio internees were transferred to Bilibid Prison in Manila, where Mrs. Herold and her fellow internees were liberated. She continued her diary to record life in Manila as the battle was fought, and conditions immediately afterwards.
Detailed and personal. (Her personal reminiscences, based on an oral history, were published in the Bulletin of the American Historical Collection in 1982). - 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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