Edgar D. Whitcomb (1917–2016)
Auteur de Escape from Corregidor
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Edgar D. Whitcomb in 2006 [credit: Wikimedia Commons user Chris]
Œuvres de Edgar D. Whitcomb
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Whitcomb, Edgar Doud
- Date de naissance
- 1917-11-06
- Date de décès
- 2016-02-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Hayden, Indiana, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Rome, Indiana, USA
- Études
- Indiana University (LLB|1950)
- Professions
- politician
lawyer
public official - Organisations
- Republican Party
State of Indiana
U.S. Army Air Corps
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 49
- Popularité
- #320,875
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 1
The copy of the book I read does not appear to 60+ years old and looks to be less than 10 years old.
This is the autobiography of Edgar D. Whitcomb, former Governor of Indiana. He was a navigator with the ill-fated 19 Bombardment Group, destroyed on the ground at Clark Field, Philippines on 8 Dec 1941. Subsequently he was relocated to Bataan to support air and ground operations and eventually escaped capture there by taking a boat to Corregidor with several other men, where he was captured when the island fortress surrendered in May 1942.
Ultimately, he escaped from Corregidor with another captive. As he attempted to make it to Australia with two miners, he was betrayed by Filipinos in a small village. Upon capture, he assumed the made-up persona of a miner and began his odyssey across the globe.
The book was fairly well written and held my interest. His memory was pretty good and he followed up with the fates of many other soldiers and airmen he spent time with during the war. The maps, while somewhat crude, did help to show the route of his travels in the Philippines.
Generally I can no longer read books about PoWs of the Japanese, but as this man was a captive for a short period of times, he was not witness to the large number atrocities committed by the Japanese on US military personnel.
8/10 Well worth reading.… (plus d'informations)