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We Refused to Die: My time as a prisoner of war in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945
Gene S Jacobsen
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Description for We Refused to Die: My time as a prisoner of war in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945
Paperback. A compelling account of a POW of the Japanese during World War II written only months after the author's release. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Gene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in the Philippines and Japan. Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen’s squadron at the beginning of the war, sixty-five survived to return to the United States. We Refused to Die recounts Jacobsen’s struggle, against all odds, to remain ... Read more
Gene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in the Philippines and Japan. Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen’s squadron at the beginning of the war, sixty-five survived to return to the United States. We Refused to Die recounts Jacobsen’s struggle, against all odds, to remain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811251
SKU
V9781607811251
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