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Counting the Days POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific

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ISBN-10: 1588343553

ISBN-13: 9781588343550

Edition: 2012

Authors: Craig B. Smith

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Counting the Daysis the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps: Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1. Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings, imprisoned them, and eventually released them to a…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Craig B. Smith is former president of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Mendenhall, Holmes & Narver, a global engineering, architecture, and construction firm that has been involved in many major public works projects, including the renovating of the Pentagon before and after 9/11. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from UCLA, where he was an assistant professor of engineering and assistant director of the Nuclear Energy Laboratory. His work on the Great Pyramid was featured on A&E's "The Great Builders of Egypt" and on PBS's "Lost Cities of the Pyramids".

Author's Preface
Introduction
December 194
Origins
Davao Gold Mine
Insular Patrol
Yokohama Bank
Argentina Maru
The Dentist's House
Zentsuji
Relocation
American Sojourn
Across The Gulf Of Davao
Osaka
Houses In The Jungle
A Riot And A Marriage
Happy Life Blues Cabaret
Hirohata
The Battle For Guam
MacArathur Returns
Free At Last
Prisoner Of War Number
Home From Manzanar
Stragglers: Prisoners Of Conscience
Picking Up The Pieces
Epilogue: Prisoners Today
Marine Corps Muster Roll, Guam, December 1941
Annotated Bibliography
End Notes
Acknowledgments and Credits