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4th Marines Chapter - Reunion Information |
American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor |
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North China Marines |
4th Marines China Band |
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Center for Research Allied POWS Under the Japanese |
Battle for Bataan |
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Back to Bataan |
The Fall of the Philippines |
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Corregidor: Then and Now |
Burma Thai Death Railway |
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Thailand-Burma Railway Museum |
Zentsuji Prison Camp |
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Rescue of Bilibid Prison |
Oryoku Maru |
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B-29 Air Raids on Japan |
Hiroshima |
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Nagasaki |
Japan's War Crimes |
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Unit 731 |
MacArthur's War Tribunal |
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Hibakusha |
US-Japan Dialogue on POWs |
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Camp Fukuoka #17 |
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The 4th Marines and Soochow Creek The Legend and the Medal
by F. C. Brown, John Lelle and Roger Sullivan This work
provides a detailed history of the U.S. 4th Marine Regiment
from 1914 to 1942, with emphasis on its period of service in
China. In addition, the authors have included an amusing
sidelight—the story of the (unofficial) Soochow Creek Medal.
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Prisoners of the Japanese : POWs of
World War II in the Pacific by Gavan Daws Daws combined ten
years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with
surviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account
of the experiences of the Allied POWs of WWII. Here Daws
reveals the survivors' haunting experiences, from the
atrocities perpetrated during the Bataan Death March and the
building of the Burma-Siam railroad. |
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Soochow and the 4th Marines by
William R. Evans Atwood Publishing Co. ISBN 0-9617585-1-1 The
true story of a small mongrel dog adopted as a mascot by the
4th Marines in Shanghai, China in 1937. Soochow became a legend
in his own time riding around Shanghai in rickshaws, eating
sirloin steaks and drinking beer with the other Marines in his
own tailor made uniforms. |
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Death March: The Survivors of Bataan
by Donald Knox Excellent oral history of the experiences of the
survivors of the surrender of Bataan and Corregidor. POWS
detail in their own moving words the starvation, ill-treatment,
executions and torture suffered in 3-1/2 years of imprisonment. |
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Alamo of the Pacific by Otis H. King
Sgt USMC 1939- 1947 The story of the famed "China Marines" on
Bataan and Corregidor and what they did to the Enemy as POWs.
Ignored to a great extent was the story of the siege of Bataan
and Corregidor and the horrible fate of the defenders. |
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix Historian Bix documents the emperor's legacy
as far more shrewd, activist, and energetic than previously
thought. Caught up in the fever of territorial expansion,
Hirohito was the force that animated the war system, who,
acting fully as a military leader and head of state, encouraged
the belligerency of his people and pursued the war to its
disastrous conclusion. |
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ARTICLES: |
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Allied POWs Compensation Suit |
Japanese Censorship |
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The Cultural Conditions of Unconditional Surrender |
As China rises, so does Japanese nationalism |
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Maj-Gen Smedley Butler, USMC |
A Public Betrayed |
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