Book: USAFFE by Poweleit, Alvin C., M.D., Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps (Ret.)

January 30, 2016 by MO1

USAFFE by Poweleit, Alvin C., M.D., Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps (Ret.) (Author)

USAFFE, the loyal Americans and faithful Filipinos: A saga of atrocities perpetrated during the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and Japanese imprisonment and survival Hardcover – 1975

Title

USAFFE, the loyal Americans and faithful Filipinos : a saga of atrocities perpetrated during the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and Japanese imprisonment and survival / by Alvin C. Poweleit.

Subject

Poweleit, Alvin C.

World War, 1939-1945–Campaigns–Philippines.

World War, 1939-1945–Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

World War, 1939-1945–Health aspects.

World War, 1939-1945–Personal narratives, American.

Description

Wartime diary of the American Surgeon of the Provisional Tank Group, from arrival in the Philippines through the battles for the defense of the Philippines, the Death March, prisoner of war experiences and liberation.

Poweleit was a reserve officer called to active duty in 1940, and attached to the 192nd Tank Battalion; he arrived in the Philippines less than a month before the war started. He was with the tank men from the start of the war through the surrender of Bataan; imprisoned in Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan and other camps, and then moved to Taiwan in September 1944, where he stayed till the end of the war.

The book is not a verbatim publication of his diary proper, but has added information taken from post-war sources. He also recounts the other hell ships and the Palawan Massacre.

Creator

Poweleit, Alvin C.

Publisher

[s.l.] : Poweleit, c1975

Date

1975

Format

24 x 16 cm.

Type

Hardbound

Call Number

D 767.4 .P68 1975

Accession Number

13978

Pagination

vii, 182 p.

Illustration

ill., maps

Keywords

Poweleit, Alvin C.; World War, 1939-1945–Campaigns–Philippines.; World War, 1939-1945–Health aspects.; World War, 1939-1945–Personal narratives, American.; World War, 1939-1945–Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

Collection

Diaries

Citation

Poweleit, Alvin C., “USAFFE, the loyal Americans and faithful Filipinos : a saga of atrocities perpetrated during the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and Japanese imprisonment and survival / by Alvin C. Poweleit.,” FHL – Roderick Hall Collection, accessed January 30, 2016, http://rodhall.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/items/show/933.

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United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) was a military formation of the United States Army active from 1941 to 1946. The new command’s headquarters was created on July 26, 1941, at No. 1, Calle Victoria, Manila, Luzon, the Philippines, with General Douglas MacArthur as commander. The Chief of Staff was Brigadier General Richard K. Sutherland and the Deputy Chief of Staff was Lieutenant ColonelRichard J. Marshall. The core of this command (including MacArthur, Marshall, and Sutherland) was drawn from the Office of the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government.