| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 G68 1999 |
| Status |
Available |
| Itemnotes |
with signature of the author |
| Barcode |
17862 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3
- Item number - G68 1999
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Masterson, Melissa.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Ride the waves to freedom :
- Remainder of title - Calvin Graef's story of survival /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Melissa Masterson
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Hobbs, N.M. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Southwest Freelance,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1999.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 108 pages
- Dimensions - 22 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Signing Up For Soldiery -- Defending the Airfields Clark and Nichols -- Finding a Lifeboat and Life -- Last Stand on Bataan Peninsula -- Marching Into Imprisonment -- The Davao Penal Colony -- The Hold of a Hellship -- A Torpedo Blast and Freedom -- The Way Home -- I Lived Through It All
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "There are many stories of the war to be told, but very few are as unique as the story that can be related by five particular United States soldiers about one fateful day near the end of World War II. On this day, while held against their will in the middle of the South China Sea on a Japanese prison ship, the Arisan Maru, a torpedo from their own country arrived to rip their world apart, killing 1,800 of their comrades.
Calvin Graef, one of the five soldiers who survived the destruction of the Arisan Maru, had already experienced the Bataan Death March and imprisonment in three Japanese POW camps. Graef's story goes beyond most recollections told by other POWs, whose final destination was the coal mines in Japan. He rode typhoon waves in a lifeboat, faced the big guns of a Japanese destroyer ship on the hunt, and bonded with the common people of China in a united effort to ensure that he returned to his homeland again. While running from the Japanese across the Chinese Mainland, he escaped from their iron hand of tyranny by means of such conveyances as rickshaws, bicycles, disguises, and prayers."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Graef, Calvin.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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 - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- Form subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Form subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
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