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Freeman, Sally Mott,
author.
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, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps ;
24 cm.
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Maps on lining paper.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574) 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.
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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.