Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 PDF
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captured The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 FRANCES B. COGAN More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late-December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps—the crowded hous- ing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book addresses several controversial issues about the internment, including Japanese intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S. State Department's role in allowing the presence of American civilians in the Philippines during wartime. Supported by diaries, memoirs, war crimes transcripts, Japanese soldiers' accounts, medical data, and many other sources. Captured presents a detailed and moving chronicle of the internees' efforts to survive. Cogan compares living conditions within the internment camps with life in POW camps and with the living conditions of Japanese soldiers late in the war. An afterword discusses the experiences of internment survivors after the war, com- bining medical and legal statistics with personal anecdotes to create a testament to the thousands of Americans whose captivity haunted them long after the war ended. FRANCES B. CO6AN is a professor of literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She is the author of Ail-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America (Georgia). Captured This page intentionally left blank The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 Captured FRANCES B. COGAN The University of Georgia Press Athens and London ©2000 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 All rights reserved Designed by Kathi Dailey Morgan Set in 10 on 13 Electra by G&S Typesetters Printed and bound by Maple-Vail The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Printed in the United States of America 04 03 02 01 00 C 5 4 3 2 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Cogan, Frances B. Captured: the Japanese internment of American civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945 / Frances B. Cogan p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8203-2117-6 (alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Concentration camps —Philippines. 3. Prisoners of War —United States —History —20thcentury. I. Title. D805.P6C63 1999 940.54'7252'09599 —dc21 99-30959 CIP British Library Cataloging in Publication Date available ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4352-5 Dedicated to My husband, Daniel}. Cogan and My daughter, Elizabeth B. Cogan One purchased my academic freedom for six months and listened to every rewrite The other pulled books from shelves and listened even to notecards Both made finishing this book possible This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction J 1. Pearl of the Orient: Manila and the Prewar Philippines 9 2. First Dark Days 33 3. Meanwhile, on Several Islands Not Far Away 63 4. Inside the Gate: The Nature of the Japanese Administration of the Civilian Internment Camps 108 5. The Japanese Soldiers Ration: Food and Health in Civilian Internment Camps 147 6. Hunger Time: April 1943-February 1945 111 1. A Roof over Their Heads: Shelter in Civilian Internment Camps 207 8. Idle Hands Are the Devil s Playground: Work in the Camps 225 9. Angels and Tanks: Rescue Comes 260 Epilogue 311 Appendix 319 A Note on Sources 32] Notes 333 Bibliography 337 Index 347
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