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This subcategory contains 66 links By the first foreign reporter to enter after the atomic bomb was dropped. Good site An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Guadalcanal. Jack "Weary" McKnight served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Essex CV-9 from April 27, 1943 to Dec 16, 1945. He worked in the Combat Information Center as a member of division V-3-R. During much of that time he recorded the Pacific war in his diary as a seaman on the Essex. YouTube video The Art of War Propaganda "On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S. National Archives. Other aspects of the decision are shown from accounts of the participants. This page was new May 29, 1995, and it was last updated August 15, 2000." by Rick Peterson The author was imprisoned by the Japanese on Java during World War II and subsequently wrote this testimony to her religious faith. This work is of interest because it not only tells us how she survived the horrors of the prison camp but also because it gives us insights into the nature of such camps. One man's story of the 192nd Tank Battalion and the events that led up to one of the most infamous acts in World War II -- the Bataan Death March. By Richard M. Gordon, a survivor of the Bataan Death March. A secret of WWII revealed. Days after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki one more city was bombed. Detailed report. Although Bataan fell on April 9, 1942, the Philippine and American forces held out at Corregidor for 27 days against great odds. Diary of Herman K. Beaber "who was an American WWII POW in Los Banos Philippines . He was a missionary in the Philippines when WWII broke out. After the Japanese took over he became a civilian POW. He wrote a powerful and telling diary during these times." The Destroyer Escort ships were ordered by the U.S. Navy to supplement the destroyers. The need for destroyer escorts arose during World War Two, when the demand for destroyers outgrew the supply. Memoir Mexican air force in the Philippines On December 8th, 1941 thousands of Filipino men and women responded to President Roosevelt's call for help to preserve peace and democracy in the Philippines. In their tormentuous four-year battle to restore their independence, the courageous young men and women of the combined Philippine Islands suffered many hardships, tortures, loss of life and limbs, yet they never faltered. By Stanley A. Frankel Lots of photos Australian diaries In English and in Japanese. Photos from the Naval Historical Center This manuscript was prepared by the historians assigned to the Japanese Research Divisoin of the Military History Section in the General Headquarters, Far East Command. YouTube video Complete set. By Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl, Jr., USMC Historical Section, Division of Public Information Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps 1948. by Watanabe Kazuko. Korean women World War II did not neatly end with Japan's surrender on September 2, 1945. At its height the Japanese Empire was more than 20 million square miles of land and sea. Soldiers in isolated regions fought on for years after the surrender some unaware the war had ended, other refusing to believe. Some hide in the jungles alone, others fought in groups and continued to make attacks and conduct guerilla warfare. These men were called Japanese Holdouts, or Stragglers and their stories are some of the most fascinating human interest stories of the 20th Century. "By the end of World War II about 600 thousand Japanese soldiers and officers have been held captive in thousands of prison camps on a territory, stretched from Kamchatka in the East, across Urals to European part of USSR in the West and Yenisei Basin in the North." Lots of links on the Battle for Okinawa Iwo Jima WWII in the Pacific The U.S. Navy's contribution to the overall victory that ended World War II. Extensive site. Corregidor and beyond An eyewitness account of Dr. Paul Ashton WWII. Royal Norfolks, 4th Battalion, 18th Division Wrecks of the carriers sunk at the Battle of Midway By Charles A. Lockwood. 1951 "The campaign was the longest fought by the British in the Second World War. In December 1941 it began, for the British, with disaster, retreat and irreversible loss of face in front of the subject population. It ended, in August 1945, in triumph with the total defeat of the occupying Japanese army." Japanese Veteran of Guadalcanal "The controversy over how history should represent dropping an atom bomb on Japan came to a head in 1994 when the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum drafted an exhibit entitled "The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War" around the refurbished Enola Gay to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in 1995." The Great Pacific War Naval Aviation Bibliography lists selected works dealing with the development and utilization of naval airpower in the Pacific during WWII. Divided into five sections the bibliogrpahy covers: Biographies and Personal Narratives, other Bibliographies, Unit Histories, Equipment and Campaigns. Frank Hoeffer was in the Bataan Death March and a prisoner of war for 42 months in WW2. 503rd Parachutre Regiment site. Corregidor A series of 187 studies on Japan's role in WWII, written by Japanese participants in the events at the request of the US Government. We will be adding Monographs as they are converted. We currently have 6 volumes online with more in progress. The atom bomb and how it was made U.S. Marine in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Scholarly book by Jonathan Marshall audio "A biography of my survival of the Bataan Death March and three years as a Japanese Prisoner of War. -- Russell A. Grokett, Sr." Letters Home from the South Pacific By Makom Sasaki in the Concord Review The true story of what really happened to American prisoners of War in the Japanese Death Camps in the Philippines during World War II. |
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