Bruning, John R.

Summary: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 BRU

Freeman, Sally Mott

Summary: Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRE

Brotherton, Marcus

Summary: Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. Two years later, he managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. After a misstep with a teenage prostitute, he vowed to right the wrongs he'd done and help the girl have a better life. Yet when the Japanese attacked on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, JOE BRO

Hampton, Dan

Summary: "Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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Welch, Bob

Summary: Recounts the survival of Clay Conner, Jr., who headed for the jungles and befriended pygmies rather than surrender to the Japanese in 1942 and become part of the Bataan Death March.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 CONNOR, CLAY, JR WEL

Biskup, Agnieszka

Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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Moore, Stephen L.

Summary: In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Mrazek, Robert J.

Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, FLORENCE MRA

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Hillenbrand, Laura

Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 910.54 HIL

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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ZAM

Fox, Margalit

Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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Bascomb, Neal

Summary: "The story of a group of Allied POWs in WWI who dared to escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.4 BAS