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Books on Bataan & POW Experience |
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*Books written by or about a member of the 192nd Tank Battalion ** Book contains interviews with or stories about members of the 192nd *** Books written by or about a member of the 194th Tank Battalion |
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Adapt or Die Merritt, J. D. (Worked on Port Area Detail with Bill Hauser, 192nd Tank Battalion) Baby of Bataan Johnson, Joseph Quitman (Youngest American military POW taken on Bataan.) Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account Dyess, William E. Ashton, Paul (Ashton was Jim Griffin's, 192nd Tank Battalion, cellmate at Bilibid Prison.)
Bataan Uncensored*** Miller, Ernest (Commanding Officer 194th Tank Battalion. Book is out of print, but it can be found at public libraries or purchased online.) Pearson, Judith (Book describes Oryoku Maru experience.) Brothers from Bataan: POWs, 1942 - 1945** Martin, Adrian R. Ortega Jr. Abel (Abel Ortega Sr. was a member of A Company, 192nd Tank Battalion)
Death March: The Survivors of Bataan** Knox Donald
Michno, Gregory F.
First into Nagasaki* - December 2006 Weller, George & Anthony (Book has quotes by members of the 192nd after they were liberated.)
Footprints in Courage: A Bataan Death March Survivor's Story Gilpatrick, Kristin
Sides, Hampton
Girocho: A GI's Story of Bataan and Beyond John Henry Poncio & Marlin Young (Book is about Hirohata POW Camp. Camp was also known as Osaka 12-B,)
Emerson, K. C. (Book can be read online.)
The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945*** Fitzpatrick, Bernard T. ( Member of the 194th Tank Battalion. Book reissued in paperback on September 21, 2011)
Janesville Tankers on Bataan** Schutt, Donald A. ( Masters thesis - University of Wisconsin - 1967 )
Kentucky's Fighting 192nd GHQ Light Tank Battalion* Powleit, Alvin (Book is out of print but is available at libraries.)
Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines 1942 - 1945 Robert Lapham & Bernard Norling, ( Rudolph Bolstad, A Company, 194th Tank Battalion fought with this unit.)
Tenney, Lester (Member of B Company, 192nd Tank Battalion)
3.6 Years in Hell in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps, 1942 - 1945* Lajzer, Joseph D. (Member of B Company, 192nd Tank Battalion)
Abraham, Abie
One Thirteenth Millionth* Parish, Phil (Member of A Company. The Rock County Historical Society will make a photocopy for fee.)
Our Paradise: A GI's War Dairy Norquist, Ernest (A copy of the book is available at Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs)
Czerwien, Anthony Daws, Gavin
Soldier of Bataan Brain, Philip S. (Member of A Company, 194th Tank Battalion - Rotarian published book)
Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It Lawton, Manny
Zimbler, Sheldon (Story of Manchurian POWs.)
Video
Ghosts of Bataan - Winnercomm Inc. - 2005 - (Many of the POW photos in this documentary are of members of the 192nd Tank Battalion.) In the Hands of the Enemy - (A Company, 192nd Tank Battalion) - Exploration Films.com
The Great Raid - 2005 - Miramax Films
The Harrodsburg Tankers: A Time for Courage .... A Time for Heroes - Kentucky National Guard - 2008
The Tragedy of Bataan - 2011 - PBS Home Video
Books:
World War II in the South Pacific
The Ghost Mountain Boys - 2 October 2007 Campbell, James (The experience of the 32nd Division which was made up of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin)
Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun - 2008 Salecker, Gene Eric - 2008 (Bataan Commemorative Research Project listed in bibliography)
World War II
The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II Yeide, Harry - 2010 (Bataan Commemorative Research Project listed in bibliography)
When Our Mothers Went to War - September 2008 Regis, Margaret |