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Loading... Resolve: From the Jungles of WW II Bataan, A Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Promise Keptby Bob Welch
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On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before . . . The obstacles to Conner's survival were as numerous as the enemy soldiers who ultimately put a price on his head- among them malaria, heat, jungle rot, snakes, and mosquitoes. Beyond that, the human threats of betrayal, capture, torture, and death. And, finally, he had to overcome self-doubt, struggle with the despair of burying comrades, deal with friction among his fellow American soldiers, and find a way to survive. But if conflict reveals character, Conner showed himself to be a man apart. Inspired by an unlikely alliance with a tribe of arrow-shooting pygmies, by the words in a dog-eared New Testament, and by a tattered American flag that he vowed to someday triumphantly fly at battalion headquarters, Conner emerged victorious from the jungle - after almost three years. Resolve is the story of an unlikely hero who never surrendered to the enemy - and of a soldier who never gave up hope. Includes Photos 'A spellbinding drama.' Forrest Bryant Johnson, author of The Last Camel Charge 'Utterly fantastic.' Marcus Brotherton, author of Shift's War 'Stories like Clay Conner's unlike any other war story I'm aware of remind us of the perseverance, courage, and hope that we must carry on in their honor.' Congressman Mike Pence, Indiana No library descriptions found. |
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Eventually, with the aid of other American evaders, he organized the various local groups into a guerrilla army that spied on the Japanese and harassed them whenever an opportunity presented itself. That they were able to do so for over four years makes this an amazing story.
Author, Bob Welch, includes a description of the huge amount of research that went into this book. Conner, who died in 1983, left huge amounts of written material as he had planned to write his own version of these events plus Welch interviewed surviving Americans and Filipinos who were there with Conner in the Philippines.
Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken is in the same category as this volume when it comes to chronicling man's will to overcome.
For another memoir of American soldiers fighting the Japanese in the jungles of the Philippines after the surrender, search out John Keats' They Fought Alone. ( )