Ebook: Counting the Days: POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific
Author: Smith Craig B
- Tags: HISTORY--Europe--Western, Prisoners of war--Japan, Prisoners of war--United States, World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Pacific Area, World War 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons American, World War 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons Japanese, Prisoners of war, Personal narratives, Biography, Biographies, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons Japanese, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons American, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Smithsonian
- City: Washington;DC;Japan;United States;Pacific Area
- Language: English
- epub
Traces the stories of six prisoners on both sides of World War II, including a pair of European expatriates who were released into the dangerous Philippine jungles, a U.S. citizen who was confined in a detention camp and a Japanese soldier who hid in the Guam jungles until 15 years after the war.;December 1941 -- Origins -- Davao Gold Mine -- Insular patrol -- Yokohama Bank -- Argentina Maru -- The dentist's house -- Zentsuji -- Relocation -- American sojourn -- Across the Gulf of Davao -- Osaka -- Houses in the jungle -- A riot and a marriage -- Happy life blues cabaret -- Hirohata -- The battle for Guam -- MacArthur returns -- Free at last -- Prisoner of war number 1 -- Home from Manzanar -- Stragglers: prisoners of conscience -- Picking up the pieces -- Epilogue: prisoners today.
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