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2004., Adult, Back Bay Books Call No: BIOG 940.54 05 09528 Edition: 1st Back Bay paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides in the Pacific War.
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2002, c2001., Adult, Anchor Books Call No: HIST 940.54 25 Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chronicles the raid by 121 U.S. troops to rescue 513 prisoners of war, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from the Philippines in January 1945.
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[2014]., Young Adult, ReferencePoint Press Call No: J HIST 940.53 1773 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Understanding American historySummary Note: A history of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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c1987., 5-8, Childrens Press Call No: J HIST 940.54 72 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World at warSummary Note: Describes the various treatment, from relatively civil to unbearable, given to both military and civilian prisoners of war during World War II.
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-- Greatest POW rescue of World War II.2023., Ages 9-12; Grades 4-6, Scholastic Focus Call No: J HIST 940.54 7252095991 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: True stories in focus.Summary Note: " A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to endure the most horrific conditions on the deadly trek known as the Bataan Death March. Then, the American servicemen who were held captive by the Japanese military in Cabanatuan Camp and others in the Philippines, faced beatings, starvation, and tropical diseases, and lived constantly under the threat of death. Unable to forget their comrades' fate and concerned that these POWs would be brutally murdered as the tides of war shifted in the Pacific, the US Army Rangers undertook one of the most daring and dangerous rescue missions of all time. Aided by the "Angels of the Underground," the Sixth Ranger Battalion and courageous Filipino guerrilla soldiers set out on an uncertain and treacherous assignment. Often called the Great Raid, this remarkable story remains largely forgotten. Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson presents an extraordinary and unflinching look at the heroic servicemen and women who courageously weathered the worst of circumstances and conditions in service to their country, as well as those who answered the call to save their fellow soldiers"--
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c2010., Adult, Random House Call No: BIOG 940.54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.
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-- When we were young and brave.[2020]., Adults, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC GAY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
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[2016], Adult, Michigan State University Press Call No: FIC SMO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi escapes from the camp and meets up with an American woman, Chiara Frangiapani, who helps him elude capture as they flee to the Lower Peninsula. By 1956 they have become Frank and Claire Green, a young married couple building a new life in postwar Detroit. When INS agent James Giannopoulos tracks them down, Frank learns that Vogel is executing men like Frank for their wartime transgressions. As a series of brutal murders rivets Detroit, Frank is caught between American justice and Nazi vengeance. In Wolf 's Mouth, the recollections of Francesco Verdi/Frank Green give voice to the hopes, fears, and hard choices of a survivor as he strives to escape the ghosts of history.
