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| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 C48 2012 |
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Available |
| Barcode |
16665 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781849086097 (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 767.4 C48 2012
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Chun, Clayton K. S.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The fall of the Philippines, 1941-42
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Clayton Chun ; illustrated by Howard Gerrard.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Oxford ; Long Island City, NY :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Osprey,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2012.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 96 p. :
- Other physical details - ill. (some col.), col. maps ;
- Dimensions - 25 x 19 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Introduction. Japan and the United States : opposing powers in the Pacific -- Japanese interests and motivations for war -- The Philippines : America's Far Eastern outpost -- Chronology -- Opposing commanders. US commanders -- Japanese commanders -- Opposing forces. US and Philippine forces -- Imperial Japanese forces -- Orders of battle -- Opposing plans. Japan's move to war -- American defense of the Philippines -- The battle for the Philippines. Japanese air superiority and the bumbling nincompoops -- The Japanese invasion of Luzon -- The Japanese strike south -- Defending northern Luzon -- The Lingayen Gulf landings -- "WPO-3 is in effect" -- The Japanese strike at Lamon Bay -- The retreat to Bataan -- Bataan : the final refuge -- The Japanese break the Abucay and Mauban lines -- The Battle for the Points Homma retreats north -- MacArthur's last stand on Corregidor -- The final assault and fall of Bataan -- The Bataan Death March -- Corregidor falls -- Southern Philippines operations -- Final surrender -- Aftermath -- The battlefields today.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Concise, detailed military account of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, USAFFE defense and eventual surrender in 1942. Well illustrated, with several rare Japanese photos seen for the first time; also with specially commissioned paintings and maps for this volume.
Published on the 70th anniversary of the fall of the Philippines, as one of a series of illustrated, factual summaries of military campaigns published by Osprey publishing. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
- Summary, etc. - The Philippine Islands stood in the way of Japanese expansion in the Pacific, and were therefore an immediate target when war broke out in December 1941. Defended by a mixed Filipino-American force under the flamboyant Douglas MacArthur, the islands were hit by surprise Japanese aerial attacks that all but wiped out the American air forces in the Philippines. An amphibious assault followed. Despite desperate attempts by the US and Philippine armies, they were unable to halt the Japanese advance and Manila was lost with the beleaguered defenders retreating to Bataan and Corregidor. Here they made their last stand on May 9, 1942. Although the campaign ended in an American defeat, and for the US prisoners of war the horrors of the Bataan Death March and years in Japanese captivity, the heroic defense had inspired the Americans to return in 1944.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Aerial operations.
- 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 - Philippines
- General subdivision - Amphibious operations.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
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