Escape From Davao (74 page)

Davao swamp to Kapungagan, 198–201, 203–6, 209, 217, 219, 221, 225–27

and division of group at Medina, 259–60

evacuated by USS
Narwhal,
296–99

first day, 186, 189–91, 193–94

Kapungagan to Medina, 230–32, 235–40, 242–43

leadership skil s of, 193–94, 203–4

shooting squads, 105, 150, 153, 196, 223

Shoss, Maurice, 150

Sibuyan Sea, 113

Sides, Hampton, 353–54

Simpson, Kirke, 329

Singapore, 16, 30, 250

Singoto Maru,
343

Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), 8, 11, 48

Smith, Charles, 250, 261, 264, 266–67, 271–72

Smith, John Lee, 306

Smith, Kate, 326

Snyder, Christina, 51

Solomon Islands, 30

Soochow (dog), 75, 96

South Africa, 250

South China Sea,
6,
27, 112

Southern California, University of, 80

Southern Seas,
87

Southwest Pacific Area, 328

GHQ (Brisbane), 54, 148, 226, 239, 241–42, 250, 253, 256, 258–59, 260, 273–76, 287, 342

Philippine Regional Section, 250, 275, 342

Tenth Military District, 239, 242, 257

Soviet Union:

Al ied aid to, 32, 33

Eastern Front successes of, 324

Spanish-American War, 8, 122, 241

Spanish Armada, 47

Spanish Civil War, 47

Special Warfare School, 350

Spensley, V. H., 283, 327

Spielman, Lucy McCarthy, 297

Spielman, Robert:

background of, 137–38

at Cabanatuan, 138–39

on Corregidor, 136

at Davao, 136, 139–40, 146–48, 157, 158–59, 161–62, 166, 172, 176, 179

in escape planning, 139–40, 146–48, 157, 161–62, 166, 172, 176, 179

and failed rescue of Davao POWs, 342–45

as officer in guerril a army, 247, 297, 334, 342–45

postwar career of, 346

Spielman, Robert, in escape from Davao:

Davao swamp to Kapungagan, 201–2, 204–5, 209–10, 214

and division of group at Medina, 260

first day, 187, 190–91

Spokane, Wash., 17

Spyron, 250, 334

State Department, U.S., 314, 316, 327

Stimson, Henry, 10–11, 33, 38, 282, 291–92, 311, 315, 327

Stotsenburg, Fort, Luzon, 9, 10, 23

Strong, George V., 3, 286, 310–13, 319

Subic Bay, 39, 114, 146, 278, 346, 352

submarines:

Japanese, 30

U.S.,
184,
235, 238, 242, 244, 250, 256, 264–65, 271–75, 288, 296–99

Sulu Sea,
6

sun treatment, 1, 64, 73, 116

Supreme Commander of the Al ied Powers (SCAP), 351

Surigao Province, 242, 252, 297, 345, 346

Surigao Sea, 260

Surles, Alexander, 280–81, 283, 286–88, 309, 311–14, 316, 319

surrender, Japanese view of, 62

Sutherland, Richard, 16, 44, 244

Swinson, Arthur, 68

Taft, Robert A., 34

Talacogon,
184,
235

Talakag,
184,
247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 257

Tarawa, 328

Ten Escape from Tojo
(McCoy, Mel nik, and Kel ey), 341

Tennessee, University of, 26, 369
n

Teogum,
184,
235

Texas, University of, 346

Thailand, 16, 149

Thomas, Elbert D., 323

Time,
282

Tirador, George, 297

Tojo, Hideki, 123–24, 127, 338, 351

Tonel i, Maro “Motts,” 64, 79, 80, 102, 106, 160, 293

“Toonervil e Trol ey,” 126, 134, 178

Trail 2, Battle of, 35

Treasury Department, U.S., 324–26

Trohan, Walter, 279–81, 309, 311, 313

Trout,
USS, 274, 286, 306

rendezvous of escapees with,
184,
264–65, 271–73

secret missions of, 272

Truman, Harry S., 321

Truman, Margaret, 321

Tsubota, 197

Tsuji, Masanobu, 69, 351

Tsuneyoshi, Yoshio, 76–77, 81, 94, 351–52

tuba,
217, 219, 234, 239

Tubay, 297

tuberculosis, 96

Tuganay River, 127

Tuscaloosa, Ala., 349

Tuvil a, Jose, 225, 230, 232–33, 236–39, 243, 350

Twentieth Century-Fox, 340

Type 1 bombers, Japanese (Bettys), 18

Type 96 bombers, Japanese (Nel s), 18

Umayam River, 235

United States:

Europe First strategy of, 32–33, 282, 283–84, 321, 328, 331

and Japanese Pacific offensive, 16

Japan’s prewar relations with, 8

military unpreparedness of, 32

post-Pearl Harbor hysteria in, 30–31

reaction to atrocity stories in, 319–23, 331–33

United States Forces in the Philippines (USFIP), 55–56, 88, 247

see also
guerril as, Filipino-American

USAFFE,
see
Army Forces, Far East, U.S.

Vandegrift, Alexander A., 325

Victory,
47

Visayas, 10, 88, 115

“Voice of Freedom,” 37, 57

Wada, Shusuke “Running,” 130, 196, 223–24, 352

Wahiawa, Hawaii, 87

Wainwright, Jonathan M. “Skinny”, IV, 35, 55, 74, 86, 245

Wake Island, 16, 30

Walter, Cecil, 243

War Bonds, 325, 332, 400
n

war crimes trials, of Japanese, 351–53

War Department, U.S., 3, 10–11, 340–41

atrocity stories suppressed by, 300–301, 313–14

“Chamber of Horrors” of, 282

and failure to reinforce Philippines, 34, 371
n

Public Relations Bureau of, 280

Rainbow 5 plan of, 11

War Finance Committee, 324

War Loan Drives, 324, 332

Fourth, 324–26, 329

War Plan Orange, 10, 22–23

Wermuth, Arthur W., 31

West Virginia,
USS, 24

wet beriberi, 78, 79, 132

Whitcomb, Edgar, 88

White, Kiefer, 40

Whitney, Courtney, 258, 259, 275, 342

Wil iams, Gus, 17, 19

Winchel , Walter, 329

Winter, Wil iam, 31

Winterhol er, John, 160

World War I, 68, 241, 282

Worley, Eugene, 320–21

Wyoming, University of, 51

Wyoming,
USS, 47

Yap, Fely,
see
Campo, Fely

Yashu Maru,
343

YMCA, 335

Yuki, Kempei, 141, 179, 222, 352

Zambales Mountains, 27, 73

Zamboanga Province, 261, 263–70, 343

Zanuck, Darryl, 340, 374
n

Zapanta, Vicente, 241, 247, 248

Zeros, 19, 20

The island of Corregidor in Manila Bay was home to nearly 15,000 American and Filipino troops before its surrender to Japanese forces on May 6, 1942.

This cartoon appeared in the
Chicago Tribune
in late January 1944, upon the long-awaited release of the Dyess Story.

MacArthur Memorial Archives

Kyle Richards

Dr. Stewart Shofner

First Lt. Austin “Shifty” Shofner on Corregidor in early 1942.

Thirty-six-year-old Lt. Commander Melvyn H. McCoy was the oldest as wel as the highest-ranking member of the escape party.