To Bataan and Back: The World War II Diary of Major Thomas Dooley - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1623494338 ISBN 13: 9781623494339

Casa editrice: Texas A & M Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary Muster took place during World War II that would change and further hallow the service thereafter. In the spring of 1942, with Japanese forces poised to overrun the Allies on the Philippine island of Corregidor, Maj. Thomas Dooley, class of 1935, and Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, class of 1908, compiled a list of twenty-five other Aggies under their command, which constituted a “roll call” in the midst of the bombardment. Dooley later told a journalist about the list, and the resulting article spread rapidly throughout the United States, forever connecting Dooley to this enduring Aggie tradition.

The breadth of Dooley’s wartime experiences, however, goes far beyond this single Muster. On the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dooley began the first of six handwritten journals—more than 500 pages—that he continued to update throughout the war. As aide-de-camp to Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the new commander of the Allied forces after Gen. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to Australia, Dooley had regular contact with various commanders and headquarters throughout Bataan and Corregidor.

His journals reveal the inside story of the battles of Bataan and Corregidor and with it the capture, imprisonment, and struggle for survival of tens of thousands of American prisoners of war. Dooley’s journals—dutifully maintained even as he was a prisoner—are at once witty, articulate, stark, and often reflective.

Dooley died in 2006, and his journals now reside in the Texas A&M University archives. Jerry C. Cooper has painstakingly transcribed, edited, and annotated these remarkable documents, shedding new light on daily life in the storied history of the war in the Pacific.

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Informazioni sull?autore

JERRY C. COOPER ’63 was editor of the Texas A&M University alumni magazine, Texas Aggie, from 1971 to 2002. He is the coauthor of Footsteps: A Guided Tour of the Texas A&M University Campus.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Texas A & M Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1623494338
• ISBN 13: 9781623494339
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 238
• Redattore: Cooper Jerry C., Adams John A. Jr., Dethloff Henry C.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile