davao city

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davao city

Escape from Davao

the forgotten story of the most daring prison break of the Pacific war
2011
Relates the World War II escape of Major William Edwin Dyess and nine other prisoners of war from a Japanese prison in the Philippines, discusses the request of the American government that the men not describe how they had been treated, and examines the escapees' determination to break their silence. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a Japanese POW camp during the Pacific war.
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