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Bataan : a survivor's story / by Gene Boyt with David L. Burch ; foreword by Gregory J.W. Urwin.
LIBRA D811.B68946 A3 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyt, Gene, 1917-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boyt, Gene, 1917-2003.
- Boyt, Gene.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Japan.
- Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942--Personal narratives.
- Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Philippines.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Like Many other young American men during the depression-era 1930s, Gene Boyt entered Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. Later, after receiving an ROTC commission in the Army Engineers and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Missouri School of Mines, Boyt joined the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater. Building runways and infrastructure in the Philippines in 1941, Boyt enjoyed the regal life of an American officer stationed in a tropical paradise, but not for long. When the United States surrendered the Philippines to Japan in April 1942, Boyt became a prisoner of war, suffering unthinkable deprivation and brutality at the hands of ruthless Japanese guards. One of the last accounts to come from a Bataan survivor, Boyt's story details the infamous Bataan Death March and his subsequent forty-two months in Japanese internment camps. In this fast-paced narrative, Boyt's voice conveys the quiet courage of the generation of men who fought and won history's greatest armed conflict.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Beginnings 3
- Chapter 2 Soldiering in Paradise 30
- Chapter 3 To Bataan 53
- Chapter 4 We Shall Remain 70
- Chapter 5 "I Might As Well Surrender, Too" 109
- Chapter 6 March of Death 123
- Chapter 7 Hell at O'Donnell 139
- Chapter 8 On to Japan 156
- Chapter 9 Zentsuji: The Officers' Prison 177
- Chapter 10 Victory! 195
- Chapter 11 The Good Life 209
- Epilogue: Why? 218.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0806135824
- OCLC:
- 52706273
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