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03933aam a2200373M 4500 001 0A407A740CF611EA99B9112E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191122010114 008 181214t20192008txuab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781623497880 020 $a 1623497884 035 $a (OCoLC)1078882101 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-us-tx $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-tx $a a-ja--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/a-ja $a n-us-tx $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-tx 100 1 $a Crager, Kelly E., $d 1968- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007037646 245 10 $a Hell under the rising sun : $b Texan POWs and the building of the Burma-Thailand death railway / $c Kelly E. Crager. 264 1 $a College Station : $b Texas A & M University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 196 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Texas A & M University military history series ; $v 116 520 $a Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any challenge. Just over a year later, these carefree young Texans would be confronted by horrors they could never have imagined." "For more than three years, the Texans, along with the sailors and marines who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, were prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning in late 1942, these prisoners-of-war were shipped to Burma to accelerate completion of the Burma-Thailand railway. These men labored alongside other Allied prisoners and Asian conscript laborers to build more than 260 miles of railroad for their Japanese taskmasters. They suffered abscessed wounds, near-starvation, daily beatings, and debilitating disease. 89 of the original 534 Texans taken prisoner died in the infested, malarial jungles. The survivors received a hero's welcome from Gov. Coke Stevenson, who declared October 29, 1945 as "Lost Battalion Day" when they finally returned to Texas." "Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the "Lost Battalion" members themselves. He focuses on the treatment the men received in their captivity at the different camps they occupied, and surmises that a main factor in the battalion's comparatively high survival rate (84 percent of the 2nd Battalion) was the comradery of the Texans and their commitment to care for each other. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index. 505 0 $a Becoming soldiers -- Across the Pacific -- Defense of Java and capitulation -- Becoming prisoners : the learning period -- "Hell ships" and Changi -- Into the jungle -- "Speedo!" -- Out of the jungle and liberation -- Becoming whole -- Appendix : Prisoners held by the Japanese. 610 20 $a Burma-Siam Railroad. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83201886 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148476 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Conscript labor $z Burma. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Conscript labor $z Thailand. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Japan. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108339 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Texas. 650 0 $a Oral history. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095238 651 0 $a Texas $x History $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Texas A & M University military history series ; $v 116. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86722312 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214022510.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A407A740CF611EA99B9112E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search