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| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P5 K85 2012 |
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| Status |
Item withdrawn |
| Barcode |
16527 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789712726293 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .P5
- Item number - K85 2012
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Kwiecinski, Stephen A.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Honor courage faith :
- Remainder of title - a Corregidor story /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Stephen A. Kwiecinski.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Anvil Pub.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2012.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xvii, 180 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations ;
- Dimensions - 23 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Introduction to Part one -- Historic overview -- Chapter 1: The journey begins -- Chapter 2: Manila -- Chapter 3: Corregidor -- Chapter 4: Bataan -- Chapter 5: Prison camps -- Chapter 6: Hellships -- Chapter 7: Life in Japan -- Chapter 8: The war ends -- Chapter 9: Back to Manila -- Chapter 10: Going home -- Chapter 11: Hell and heaven on Earth -- Chapter 12: The heroes of battery way -- Part two: Tours, 2003-2007 -- Introduction to Part two -- Chapter 13: If MacArthur only had ears, or videoke terrorism -- Chapter 14: 2006 Hellships memorial tour -- Chapter 15: Chuck Towne -- Chapter 16: 2007 Ghost soldiers of Bataan tour -- Part three: Searching the heart of a man -- Introduction to Part three -- Chapter 17: Dad's sisters remember -- Chapter 18: Dad growing up -- Chapter 19: Friends and relatives remember dad -- Chapter 20: My memories of Dad -- Chapter 21: ADBC Convention, May 2006 -- Chapter 22: Dad's purple heart -- Chapter 23: The tiny treasure trove -- Postcript - Father's Day 2007 -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Survivors on the 60th anniversary tour (2002) -- Appendix 2: Letters -- Appendix 3: Hellship Canadian inventor -- Appendix 4: "Close calls and lucky breaks" -- Appendix 5: Timetable of walter Kwiecinski -- Appendix 6: Plaque honoring Dad at battery way -- Appendix 7: Fate brings truth to white lie told to dying mother.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Several stories in one: the first-person account of the author's father, Staff Sgt Walter Finch, who was a member of the 59th Coast Artillery Regiment in Battery Way on Corregidor (which fired the last shot in the siege); the author reconstructs his father's story through interviews with his father, trips to Corregidor and interviews with veterans of Corregidor (including two from his father's battery) and POW survivors. In so doing he also talks about the veterans themselves, memorial trips and eventually settling down in Corregidor as a full-time resident. The highlight of Sgt Finch's career was in firing the last mortar against the Japanese, and for this he is commemorated in Corregidor. The book deals at length with the POW experiences under the Japanese, including the hell ship Canadian Inventor. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Kwiecinski, Walter Finch,
- Dates associated with a name - 1914-1988.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- 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 - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - hell ship Canadian Inventor
- Uncontrolled term - memorials and memorial tours
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW experiences
- Uncontrolled term - reconstructing a father's story
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