An Incredible Survival Story of an American Prisoner of War During World War II You've Never Heard

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SELECTED SOURCES

-Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, 2001.

-Bill Keith, Days of Anguish, Days of Hope, 1972.

-“Interview with Robert Preston Taylor, World War II POW,” Humanities Texas
March 2015 (originally conducted in 1974) https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/interview-robert-preston-taylor-world-war-ii-pow

MAPS

-Bataan Death March Map by Le Loi. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bataan_Death_March_route_vector.svg

-Manchuria (Manchukuo) by Emo. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China-Manchukuo-map.svg

-Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by Kendrikdirksen. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_Asian_Co-prosperity_sphere.png

-Google maps of the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan.

SELECTED PHOTOS

-Robert Preston Taylor: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20049442.

-Robert Preston Taylor: https://blogs.baylor.edu/texascollection/2021/04/16/a-call-to-service/

-Robert Preston Taylor: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000510444/

-Old Bibibid Prison: Photo by Louis Nevin Hodges Sr., National WW2 Museum, https://www.ww2online.org/image/aerial-view-old-bilibid-prison

-Claire Phillips: Photo courtesy of the Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 001275 https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/phillips_claire/#.ZD9lZuzML0M

-Japanese POW camp (unspecified location) is used for illustrative purposes.

-The malnutrition POW photo is from Indonesia (Dutch East Indies).

-The WWII execution photo is of Sergeant Siffleet at Aitape, 1943.