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Post by johnbryan on Nov 18, 2008 21:31:45 GMT -5
The World War II Diary of Colonel Paul D. Bunker. Edited by Keith Barlow A truly compelling tale of the siege of Corregidor told in the very words of a man who lived through it, only to later to die in a Japanese POW cage.
Bunker was a no nonsense, professional artillery Officer of the "Old Army". He weaves a truly interesting story of his role in the defense of the fortified islands in Manila Bay during the dark days of late 1941- 42. One later reads with great sadness and frustration of the utter disregard that the Japanese held towards the POW's in their charge in the camps. Bunker later died of beri-beri, an otherwise easily treatable disease that could have been overcome with a proper diet, rather than the starvation rations that the Japanese gave to their prisoners.
Through Bunker's Diary, one gets a sense of the professionalism that was in the men of the Coast Artillery and the pride of service they had when firing their coastal guns to hurl death back at the Japanese who sought to kill them during the siege.
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