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Bataan Diary: A Chronicle of the U.S. Army's First Battle of World War II
Immediately after Japanese bombers destroyed the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor at the beginning of World War II, the Japanese attacked General Douglas MacArthur’s United States Army Forces in the Philippine Islands. This is the story of the U.S. Army's first battle of World War II, the Battle of Bataan, and of the American soldiers left behind when Army commanders surrendered to the Japanese. More than half of the U.S. soldiers in that battle died in combat or in horrible Japanese prison camps.
The fall of Bataan and subsequent events in the Japanese-occupied Philippine Islands are told through the eyes of an American soldier, Frank Loyd, who refused to surrender, evadeded the Bataan Death March and survived in the Philippine jungles for three and a half years in spite of a Japanese man-hunt to capture him. When General MacArthur’s forces returned to the Philippines near the end of the war, Frank Loyd rejoined the American army and ultimately returned to his family in the United States, alive.
The fall of Bataan and subsequent events in the Japanese-occupied Philippine Islands are told through the eyes of an American soldier, Frank Loyd, who refused to surrender, evadeded the Bataan Death March and survived in the Philippine jungles for three and a half years in spite of a Japanese man-hunt to capture him. When General MacArthur’s forces returned to the Philippines near the end of the war, Frank Loyd rejoined the American army and ultimately returned to his family in the United States, alive.
492 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 4, 2024
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