The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side.
Dyess was born in Albany, T.
William E.
Falk provides a scene-setting introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Stanley L.
His story galvanized the nation and remains one of the most powerful personal narratives of American fighting men.
With a few others, Dyess escaped from his POW camp and was among the very first to bring reports of the horrors back to a shocked United States.
Dyess.
Among the prisoners was army pilot William E.
The already ill and hungry survivors, including many wounded, were forced to march at gunpoint many miles to a harsh and oppressive POW camp; many were murdered or died on the way in a nightmare of wanton cruelty that has made the term Death March synonymous with the Bataan peninsula.
After the U.
S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the Geneva Convention.
The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side.
He did not survive long enough to learn that he had been awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Shortly after his escape and return to the United States, Colonel Dyess was killed while testing a new airplane.
As a young army air forces pilot he was shipped to Manila in the spring of 1941.
Dyess was born in Albany, Texas.
William E.
Falk provides a scene-setting introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Stanley L.
His story galvanized the nation and remains one of the most powerful personal narratives of American fighting men.
With a few others, Dyess escaped from his POW camp and was among the very first to bring reports of the horrors back to a shocked United States.
Dyess.
Among the prisoners was army pilot William E.
The already ill and hungry survivors, including many wounded, were forced to march at gunpoint many miles to a harsh and oppressive POW camp; many were murdered or died on the way in a nightmare of wanton cruelty that has made the term Death March synonymous with the Bataan peninsula.
After the U.
S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the Geneva Convention.
The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side
