Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II

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On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn (“Mac”) McDole, one in every of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A. Beginning on December 8, 1941, at the U.S. Navy Yard barracks at Cavite, the story of this young Iowa Marine continues throughout the fighting on Corregidor, the capture and imprisonment by the Japanese Imperial Army in May 1942, Mac’s entry into the Palawan prison camp within the Philippines on August 12, 1942, the terrible conditions he and his comrades endured within the camps, and the terrible day when 139 young soldiers were slaughtered. The work details the escapes of the few survivors as they dug into refuse piles, hid in coral caves, and slogged through swamp and jungle to get to supportive Filipinos. It also accommodates an account and verdicts of the war crimes trials of the Japanese guards, follow-usaat the more than a few places and people referred to within the text, with descriptions in their present situations, and a roster of the names and hometowns of the sufferers of the Palawan massacre.

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