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American POWs of Japan is a research project of Asia Policy Point, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that studies the US policy relationship with Japan and Northeast Asia. The project aims to educate Americans on history of the POW experience both during and after World War II and its effect on the US-Japan alliance.
Hometown:
Washington, DC
Country:
United States
Interests:
US-Japan Dialogue on POWs, http://www.us-japandialogueonpows.org; American Defenders of Bataan & the Philippines Collection, Brooke County Public Library, Wellsburg, WV, http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/; Never Forgotten, POWs Camps on Taiwan, http://www.powtaiwan.org/index.html; Library of Congress Veterans History, POWs of Japan, http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/pow-japan.html
Movies:
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Great Raid (2005); Paradise Road (1997); Three Came Home (1950); King Rat (1965); They Were Expendable (1945); The Purple Heart (1944); Prisoners of the Sun (1990); Wake Island (1942); To End All Wars (2001)
Music:
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Colonel Bogey March
Books:
My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March by Lester Tenney; Reprieve from Hell by Samuel B. Moody; Soldier Slaves by James W. Parkinson and Less Benson; Unjust Enrichment: American POWs Under the Rising Sun by Linda Goetz Holmes; Tears in the Darkness : The Story of the Bataan Death March And its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman; Researching Japanese War Crimes by US National Archives and Records Administration; Hell Under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway by Kelly E. Crager; Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp by Linda Goetz Holmes; We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman; The Secret Camera: A Marines Story: Four Years as a WWII POW by Terence S. Kirk; Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides; Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur; Adapt or Die: A Former POW Tells All by JD Merritt; Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
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SANTA FE (KRQE) U.S. Soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces, launching the 65-mile Bataan Death March 68 years ago.
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