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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.
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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.