Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 /
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Annapolis, Md. :
Naval Institute Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- "Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island
- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture
- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity
- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life
- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru
- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land
- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung
- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung
- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid
- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung
- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures
- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp
- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji
- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan
- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation
- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945
- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.