Describes the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three during the Philippine campaign at the beginning of World War Two including interviews with four of the five survivors who were instrumental in General Douglas MacArthur's escape from Bataan.
Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.
CIA agent Mitch Rapp has just stopped Saddam Hussein from obtaining nuclear weapons, and he needs a break. But now a hostage rescue has gone awry in the Philippines, and a Middle East assassin is bent on destroying the geopolitical equilibrium.
The story of Arlene and her family as they flee their home for one in the jungles, where life is fun. That is, until the Japanese take over the city of Zamboanga and the army surrenders.
When a boy advises a man that he will get to town more quickly if he goes slowly, the man thinks him foolish and races down the road with his donkey and a load of coconuts.
the rescue of 104 American soldiers in the Philippines
Decker, Malcolm
2008
For the 400 American soldiers who escaped the Bataan Death March and hundreds of others who refused to surrender, escaping the Bataan Peninsula to Luzon was a life-or-death journey; among the local families who risked their lives to provide food and shelter to fleeing American soldiers were Bill and Martin Fassoth.
