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Pages: 385
Authors: Gregory F Michno
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-15 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe th
My Hitch in Hell
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Pages: 262
Authors: Lester I. Tenney
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half yea
Death on the Hellships
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Pages: 394
Authors: Gregory Michno
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

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Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horros of the prison camps magnified ten
The December Ship
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Betty B. Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-14 - Publisher: McFarland

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On December 14, 1944, the Oryoku Maru, or "December Ship," was attacked by planes of the U.S. Navy, who had no way of knowing 1,619 Allied POWs were on board. O
The Forgotten Highlander
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Authors: Alistair Urquhart
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the