Charles River Editors
ASIN: B00MIC732Q
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 44
*Includes pictures*Includes prisoners' accounts of the death march and prisoner camps*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"They went down by twos and threes. Usually, they made an effort to rise. I never can forget their groans and strangled breathing as they tried to get up. Some succeeded. Others lay lifelessly where they had fallen.. I observed that the Jap guards paid no attention to these. I wondered why. The explanation wasn't long in coming. There was a sharp crackle of pistol and rifle fire behind us.” – Captain William DyessOn December 7th, 1941, the Japanese military engaged in a preemptive strike against the American Pacific fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, but they also began maneuvers to attack the American controlled Philippines. Although General Douglas A. MacArthur and Allied forces tried to hold out, they could only fight a delaying ...