Prisoner of the rising sun
Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since ...
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
Auteur
Berry, William A. (William Aylor), 1915-