Title: Prisoner of the rising sun : the lost diary of Brig. Gen. Lewis Beebe /
Authors: Beebe, Lewis, 1891-1951.; Beebe, John M., 1928-
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Beebe, Lewis, Diaries.; World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.; Internment camps Philippines; Concentration camps Taiwan.; Concentration camps China Manchuria.; Prisoners of war Japan Diaries.; Prisoners of war United States Diaries
Abstract: "A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of the Rising Sun offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill- fated Bataan captives. When Japanese aircraft struck airfields in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Col. Lewis C. Beebe was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's chief supply officer. Promoted to brigadier general, he would become chief of staff for General Wainwright in early March, 1942. From his priveleged vantage point, Beebe kept diary records of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, their advance to Manila and capture of the Bataan Peninsula, and their assault on Corregidor.
Contents: Part I. Background for the Diary -- Introduction / Stanley L. Falk -- A Short Biography of Lewis Charles Beebe -- Timeline of Brigadier General Beebe's POW Experience -- List of Abbreviations Used in the Diary -- Part II. The Diary -- 1. 1941 -- 2. 1942 -- 3. 1943 -- 4. 1944 -- Epilogue.