We Refused to Die: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Gene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors as a slave laborer in the Philippines and Japan. Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen's squadron at the beginning of the war, sixty-five survived to return to the United States. We Refused to Die recounts Jacobsen's struggle, against all odds, to remain one of those sixty-five men.
SYNOPSIS
Jacobsen recalls his experience in the Army Air Corps, which he joined in September 1941, his capture by the Japanese in the Philippines, and the Bataan death march and subsequent forced labor in the Philippines and Japan. Only 65 of the 207 in his squadron survived the three-and- a-half year ordeal. The memoir has no notes or index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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