The fall of the Philippines
Subtitle: the desperate struggle against the Japanese invasion, 1941-1942
By: Donald J. Young
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780786498208
Subjects: Campaigns; Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippines Islands the next day. Drawing on diaries and personal accounts, this book chronicles forgotten actions in the fall of the Philippines through the recollections of American servicemen"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Never even got in the air"; title: The Philippines, December 10, 1941: "Where are our fighters?"; title: Moon under Lingayen; title: When America needed heroes: Wheless and Wagner; title: The USS Canopus; title: A scary Christmas but a happy new year: the Philippines, December 1941; title: The last and the first: Bataan, January 18, 1942; title: The First Battle for Bataan: January 18, 1942; title: "Think what we could have done with sixty!"; title: Biggest day for the Bataan Air Force: March 3, 1942; title: Japanese blitzkrieg: April 3, 1942; title: The deliberate bombing of Bataan Hospital No. 1; title: The fighting general of Bataan; title: Honorable but not easy: the surrender of Bataan; title: "P-40 something"; the last of the Tomahawks; title: Corregidor fights back: May 6, 1942; title: "You will, repeat, will surrender".