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They were expendable

1998
Describes the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three during the Philippine campaign at the beginning of World War Two including interviews with four of the five survivors who were instrumental in General Douglas MacArthur's escape from Bataan.

Girocho

a GI's story of Bataan and beyond
2003
Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.

All the way to Berlin

a paratrooper at war in Europe
2003
James Megellas chronicles the experiences he had while serving as an airborne platoon leader for the United States during World War II.

Walking point

American narratives of Vietnam
1988

Into the valley

Marines at Guadalcanal
2002
The author recounts his experiences as a war correspondent on Guadalcanal in 1942 and discusses the jungle environment, conversations among the men before, during, and after the battle, and describes how the wounded were evacuated from the island.

Whispered silences

Japanese Americans and World War II
1996
Collection of photographs taken at the sites of the ten American detention camps to which 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were sent during World War II, accompanied by text that tells the story of the camps from the perspective of former internees.

No easy day

the autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden
2012
A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

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