02968cam a2200421 i 4500 498462396 TxAuBib 20210331120000.0 170316s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016021592 9781501104145 hardcover $28.00 1501104144 hardcover $28.00 (OCoLC)980600010 TxAuBib rda Freeman, Sally Mott,. The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / Sally Mott Freeman. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] xiv, 588 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- "This force is bound for Tokyo" -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape-and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- "Proceed to Kwajalein" -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, Lilac Hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties -- and sea power -- No peace at Lilac Hedges -- Final hours -- Epilogue -- Afterword. Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines. 20210331. Cross, Barton, 1918-1945. Cross family. Cross, Helen, 1883-1966. Mott, William C., 1911-1997. United States Navy Officers Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines. World War, 1939-1945 Prisons and prisoners, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Philippines. World War, 1939-1945 Washington (D.C.) Prisoners of War Philippines Biography. Freeman, Sally Mott., First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.