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LOST & FOUND Unit Histories of Corregidor and Manila Bay Large Format , ImageWrap Cover, Premium Lustre Paper, 13x11 in., 33x28 cm 240 pages - $239.99 |
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In the decade prior to
the Great Pacific War, the Philippine Islands had become a financial and
military liability of constantly increasing gravity to the United
States. If the development of a Philippine Army, intended to defend the
Commonwealth against the Japanese was considered fanciful, then the
Orange Plan, with its provisions for the early dispatch of an American
Fleet against an aggressor, was hardly less so, for it assumed that the
U.S. Pacific Fleet would survive an opening battle. The most forlorn
hope was that in the event of war with Japan, the loss of the
Philippines would be temporary, and that the Americans caught there
would be properly tended to during their captivity. The inadequacy of the
records dealing with operations in the Philippines, and the absence of
message files, map overlays, and other after action reports would have
made it impossible to write a detailed account of the campaign had it
not been for a wide variety of unofficial records. Fortunately, many
officers who commanded subordinate units felt the compulsion to leave a
record of their experiences. During their years in prison these men had
discussed and compared their operations endlessly with their fellow
prisoners and jotted down in cheap Japanese notebooks or on scraps of
paper all they could remember and had learned. So scarce was writing
material that the men covered every inch of space in the notebooks and
wrote in characters so small as to be scarcely legible. These notebooks and
papers were then hidden ingeniously from the Japanese guards. In some
cases, the documents were buried and recovered after the war. The articles varied widely in
size and quality. Some are written in dull military prose, whilst other
reflect real literary merit. Some are accurate and detailed; others
replete with loose generalizations. Louis Morton, who wrote
"The Fall of The Philippines" saw common in them all "a note of
bitterness at what they believed to be their abandonment by the
government and the desire to justify themselves to the future." The
histories in this volume illustrate an unmistakable picture of brave men
who resolved to fight on, even after their country could no longer
support them. Surrendered into the
custody of the Japanese, it was all they could do just to stay alive.
Yet among them, there were those who would risk their lives, one more
time, to record the experiences of their comrades in arms.
These histories are accompanied by images from the scrapbook of Andrew
Lagonick, to help evoke the period prior to the descent into Hell. |
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