Valor in the Pacific - A Marine's Miraculous Escape
Lt Bill Harris led the escape of a few good Marines from the Japanese and the Bataan Death March. Surviving in the jungles of the Philippines they made their way to the Sulu Sea and southward. In "Valor: The Astonishing WW II Saga of Defiance against the Japanese", Dan Hampton's paints a picture of starvation, escape and capture by the Japanese ending with imprisonment on Honshu at the notorious Ogaku-Sojii prison camp where the jailers held sway over their lives.Their release in 1941 was nothing short of a miracle.
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Valor: The Astonishing WW II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit, by Dan Hampton (2022 - 341 pp).
When Lt Bill Harris joined the Marines in 1939, it was to fight. Instead, he spent the next 5 years escaping from the Japanese in the Philippines, finally sailing to Morotai in New Guinea. Ultimately, betrayed and captured, he spent the last 6 month of the War in a Japanese prison camp on Honshu. This excellent book, captures the historic moments of WW II in the Pacific and tells the story of one man's desire to be free and re-enter the war as a combat soldier.