The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 194

by Bernard T. Fitzpatrick

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Sergeant Bernard T. FitzPatrick endured the long and deadly hike to Japanese prisoner of war camps known as the Bataan Death March. In Japan he was forced to work at the Yawata Steel Works at Kokura--the original target of the Allies' second atomic bomb. FitzPatrick's service at Clark Field in the Philippines, the brutal fighting on Bataan, and the harrowing details of his time as a Japanese POW are detailed. Interspersed are his thoughts on U.S. preparations for the Pacific war, his Japanese captors, and the American, Filipino and Japanese men and women who risked their lives to ease the harsh conditions in the camps.… (more)

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2725 The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945, by Bernard T. Fitzpatrick with John A. Sweeter III (read 1 Apr 1995) The author was a Minnesota man drafted in April 1941. He was sent to the Philippines in Sept 1941 and was captured when Bataan fell. This is a good book and is not unrelievedly horrible. He tells of Japanese atrocities but also of humane good Japanese. He ended up in Japan at war's end. The story is well if artlessly told. He is very critical of MacArthur. This is a book well worth reading. (

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Schmerguls | Mar 9, 2008 |

My grandpa's cousin bernie Fitzpatrick was taken prisoner by the Japanese and, after being marched across Bataan to a brutal POW camp, was taken by ship to slave in a steel mill. He survived, and lived almost sixty more years.

I wish I could find my copy of this book, missing since about 2003. (

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Sergeant Bernard T. FitzPatrick endured the long and deadly hike to Japanese prisoner of war camps known as the Bataan Death March. In Japan he was forced to work at the Yawata Steel Works at Kokura--the original target of the Allies' second atomic bomb. FitzPatrick's service at Clark Field in the Philippines, the brutal fighting on Bataan, and the harrowing details of his time as a Japanese POW are detailed. Interspersed are his thoughts on U.S. preparations for the Pacific war, his Japanese captors, and the American, Filipino and Japanese men and women who risked their lives to ease the harsh conditions in the camps.

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