BOOKS
Children of yesterday /

Publisher: [s.n.],


Title Details
  • Children of yesterday /
Publishers
  • [S.l.] :[s.n.],c2014
Descriptions
  • viii, 345 pagesillustrations (maps)21 cm.
Subjects
  • United States. -- Army. -- Infantry Division, 24th.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Online Sources
Location RHC
Item Call Number D 769.3 24th .K7 2014
Status Available
Barcode 17775
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - D 769.3 24th
  • Item number - .K7 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
  • Classification number - 940.542
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Krebs, Richard Julius Herman,
  • Dates associated with a name - 1904-
Title Statement
  • Title - Children of yesterday /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Jan Valtin [pseud.] ; with a new foreword by Steve W. Chadde
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l.] :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [s.n.],
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2014
Physical Description
  • Extent - viii, 345 pages
  • Other physical details - illustrations (maps)
  • Dimensions - 21 cm.
Content Type
Media Type
Carrier Type
General Note
  • General note - A combat reporter's account of the 24th infantry division's part in the Philippine Islands campaign.
  • General note - "First published in 1946 by The Readers' Press, New York. Jan Valtin is a pseudonym of Richard Julius Herman Krebs (1904-1951). The original book is now in the public domain."
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - Infantry reporter -- Invasion -- Hill 522 -- Banzai night -- Church bells ring in Palo -- Commotion in the hills -- The Mainit River bridge -- Death-dance in Passtrana -- Jaro Sunday -- Silence in Carigara -- Ghosts of Guadalcanal -- Children of yesterday -- The breaking of Breakneck Ridge -- Doughboy White -- Dragon red -- Another half million coconuts -- The island raiders -- Return to Bataan -- We storm Corregidor -- Thunder to Davao -- Infantry speaking -- Surrender
Subject Corporate Name
  • Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States.
  • Subordinate unit - Infantry Division, 24th.
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Regimental histories
  • Geographic subdivision - United States.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Campaigns
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines.