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U.S. Navy Prisoners of War during World War II: A Bibliography


Berry, William A. Prisoner of the Rising Sun. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Bird, Tom. American POW's of World War II: Forgotten Men Tell Their Stories. London: Praeger, 1992.

Brown, Charles T. Bars from Bilibid Prison. San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1947.

Brown, Joseph Rust. We Stole to Live. Cape Girardeau, MO: Missourian Litho and Printing, 1982.

Burdick, Charles B. An American Island in Hitler's Reich: The Bad Nauheim Internment Menlo Park, CA: Markgraf Publications Group, 1987.

Coleman, John S. Bataan and Beyond: Memoirs of an American P.O.W. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1978.

Danner, Dorothy. What a Way to Speed a War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Darden, James B. Guests of the Emperor: The Story of Dick Darden. Clinton, NC: Greenhouse Press, 1990.

Daws, Gavan. Prisoners of the Japanese: POW's of World War II in the Pacific. New York: William Morrow, 1994.

Dyess, William Edwin. The Dyess Story: The Eyewitness Account of the Death March from Bataan and the Narrative of Experiences in Japanese Prison Camps and of Eventual Escape. Ed. Charles Leavelle. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1944.

Falk, Stanley F. Bataan: The March of Death. New York: Norton, 1962.

Foy, David A. For You the War is Over: American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.

Giles, Donald T. Captive of the Rising Sun: The POW Memoirs of Rear Admiral Donald T. Giles, USN. Ed. Donald T. Giles, Jr. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

Hayes, Thomas. Bilibrid Diary: The Secret Notebooks of Commander Thomas Hays, POW, the Phillipines, 1942-45. Ed. A.B. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987.

Jones, Betty B. The December Ship: A Story of Lt. Colonel Arden R. Boellner's Capture in the Phillipines, Imprisonment, and Death on a World War II Japanese Hellship. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.

Kerr, E. Bartlett. Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American POW's in the Pacific, 1941-1945. New York: William Morrow, 1985.

Knox, Donald. Death March: The Survivors of Bataan. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981.

Messimer, Dwight R. Escape. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

Petak, Joseph A. Never Plan Tomorrow: The Saga of the Bataan Death March and Battle of Corregidor Survivors, 1942-1945. Fullerton, CA: Aquataur, 1991.

Smith, Stanley W. Prisoner of the Emperor: An American POW in World War II. Ed. Duane A. Smith. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1991.

Stamp, Loren E. Journey through Hell: Memoir of a World War II American Navy Medic Captured in the Phillipines and Imprisioned by the Japanese. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.

Waterford, Van. Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II: Statistical History, Personal Narratives, and Memorials Concerning POW's in Camps and on Hellships, Civilian Internees, Asian Slave Laborers, and others Captured in the Pacific Theater. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.

Wright, John M. Captured on Corregidor: Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1988.

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