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Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese

Description: U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an … more
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Date: September 15, 2020
Creator: Burlage, Georgianne
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The Biology and Population Status of Marine Turtles in the North Pacific Ocean

Description: From objectives and scope of work: The objective of this report is to provide a comprehensive review of the biology and population status of sea turtles potentially subject to entanglement in North Pacific high-seas driftnet fisheries. The report will assist National Marine Fisheries Service efforts to assess the impacts of the driftnet fisheries on threatened and endangered sea turtle populations.
Date: September 1993
Creator: Eckert, Karen L.
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Oral History Interview with Leland D. Bartlett, September 13, 1972

Description: Interview with Colonel Leland D. Bartlett, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Springfield, Massachusetts. Bartlett discusses his education, his experience as a teenager in the Pancho Villa Expedition, becoming a commissioned officer in the Army, his pre-war career, his deployment to the Philippines, the Japanese attack, the Battle of Bataan, the siege of Corregidor and the American surrender, and his internment at Cabanatuan, Tanagawa, and Zentsuji.
Date: September 13, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bartlett, Leland D.
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Oral History Interview with John Lloyd Ruddick, September 9, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview with John Ruddick, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Ruddick discusses the Marianas invasion, the Carolines invasion, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Kurile operations, and the occupation of Japan.
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Date: September 9, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Ruddick, John Lloyd, 1923-
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