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Medal of Freedom Recipient Margaret Elizabeth Utinsky
War heroine's life story is the stuff of history ... and mystery
By Elizabethe Holland
Of the Post-Dispatch
05/31/2004
On this, of all days, I wish I could tell you the story - the whole story - of Margaret Utinsky.
Born in St. Louis, she is likely one of the greatest war heroes the city ever produced. Chances are, though, you haven't heard of her. Much of her life, its latter chapters in particular, seems a mystery.
She was born Aug. 26, 1900, to James and Lydia (Horner) Doolin and spent her childhood on a wheat farm in Canada.
In 1919, she married John Rowley, but he died one year later, leaving behind his wife and a baby boy, Charles Grant Rowley.
Some 15 years later, the young widow and her son traveled to the Philippines for what was supposed to be a six-month visit. While there, she fell in love with the islands and a Virginian by the name of John "Jack" Utinsky, an engineer who worked for the U.S. government. They married in 1936.
It would be many years, nightmares, scars and, ultimately, triumphs before she would leave the islands for good. When she finally did, she wrote her story in a 1948 book titled "Miss U." Without it, there's no telling what memories of her deeds would have survived.
Shortly before World War II swept into the Philippines, it was strongly suggested that the wives of Americans leave the country. While her son was back in the United States, Margaret Utinsky steeled herself to stay.
"I was born Peggy Doolin, and having Irish blood," she later wrote in her book, "I don't like being told what to do."
She took an apartment in Manila while her husband headed off to Bataan to work. Then, the Japanese raided. She had no idea what had come of her husband, but she was determined to find him.
To avoid capture, she created a new identity. She became Rosena Utinsky, a Lithuanian nurse. As a volunteer nurse with the Red Cross, she managed to maneuver herself as close as possible to areas where Americans had fallen. On the way to Bataan, she came to the road where the infamously horrific Death March had taken place.
"The dead bodies were everywhere," she wrote. " I was sick with shock. ... After this trip through filth and nightmare, when everything seemed to be festering death, I knew that I could not stop until I had given every ounce of my strength to help the men who still lived. And somewhere among them was Jack. I felt sure of that."
While trying to track her husband, she undertook a remarkable mission. She organized and led a secret network that smuggled food, medicine, money, shoes - anything that might help - to American prisoners. Her code name was Miss U.
While her work and that of the numerous people who helped her is credited with saving the lives of many injured, starving Americans in death camps, her story is far from fairy-tale caliber. Suspected of helping prisoners, she was interrogated and tortured in a prison for a month. But worst of all, her search for Jack only yielded heartbreak. She learned he had survived the Death March only to die of starvation in a prison in August 1942.
Still, she carried on with her work.
Certain she was to be imprisoned again, she joined guerrilla efforts against the Japanese while waiting for the war's direction to turn.
"If I had looked ahead, I never could have lived through those months," she wrote. "There are things you know beyond any question are impossible. The strange thing is that human beings learn to do the impossible if they have to. What helped most was the fact that I could not see ahead. At first, I lived from week to week, then from day to day, and finally from minute to minute."
She lived to see the end of the war and, for her efforts, was presented with the Medal of Freedom in 1946.
Two years later, her book was published. And then, Margaret Utinsky's life gets fuzzy.
She is mentioned in a June 1953 article in The Herald Press of St. Joseph, Mich. It tells of Utinsky, described as a resident of Michigan City, Ind., acting as the guest speaker at a ladies night program.
A jumble of facts about her - family members' names, her work as a nurse, her Medal of Freedom - are printed in a small block of miniscule type in the 1961-62 "Who's Who of American Women."
And then the trail goes cold.
"She just vanished," said William B. Breuer, a former Ladue resident who dedicated a chapter to Miss U's story in his book, "Great Raid on Cabanatuan."
The book is being made into a movie and someone is to play the part of the heroine. Unfortunately, any attempt to round out her story, to fill in the blanks, won't be easy. If anything, it is vague and sad, for the trail picks up on Aug. 30, 1970 - the day Margaret Elizabeth Utinsky died at 5:55 a.m. of cardiac arrest at Pioneer Sanitarium in Lakewood, Calif.
Four days later, she was buried at nearby Roosevelt Memorial Park, but other information on her death certificate is scant: She lived in Long Beach. She was a registered nurse. She was widowed.
On this, of all days, I wish I could tell you her whole story.
Elizabethe Holland
eholland@post-dispatch.com
Phone: 314-340-8259
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
William B. Breuer "From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian," here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of prisoners had been tortured and died. Based on interviews with the heroes who survived the raid, this book brings to life in electrifying detail the dramatic events that took place on that historic day.
Praise for William B. Breuer and his books
"A first-class historian." --The Wall Street Journal
"Fast-paced, detailed, and satisfyingly dramatic." --World War II Magazine on Devil Boats
"Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WWII spycraft and warfare." --Kirkus Reviews on Race to the Moon
"Vivid . . . skillfully written." --Los Angeles Times on Retaking the Philippines
"Brings to life how airborne soldiers survived, how the human will prevails . . . against overwhelming enemies, tactical failures, and even death."--The New York Times on Geronimo: American Paratroopers in World War II
Early on the morning of January 28, 1945, a small detachment of volunteers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci, leader of the 6th Ranger Battalion, embarked from their base in the Philippines on the most audacious rescue operation ever undertaken. Their objective: Penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and liberate 511 POWs from Cabanatuan, the notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of American prisoners had been brutally tortured and killed. Little did Mucci's Rangers know when they got under way that morning that over the next few days and nights they would be making history.
Written by acclaimed military historian William B. Breuer, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan is a riveting account of that rescue mission and the gallant soldiers who carried it out against overwhelming odds. Based largely on interviews with the heroes who survived the operation, and featuring twenty-eight previously unpublished photographs--many of them taken while the raid was in progress--it brings to life in electrifying detail the dramatic events that took place on the night of the raid, January 30, and during the harrowing days that followed.
In sketching out the many roads that led to Cabanatuan, Breuer brilliantly combines oral history with dramatic narrative to bring to life some of the most spectacular events of the war in the Pacific. We relive the hellish battles for Bataan and Corregidor, where in 1942 American and Filipino soldiers fought bravely to hold back the Japanese invasion force. We experience firsthand the horrors of the Bataan Death March on which tens of thousands of prisoners lost their lives en route to Cabanatuan. And we learn of the American underground and guerilla operations in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation from the men and women behind them, including Margaret Utinsky, leader of "Miss U's underground," and Claire Phillips, the glamorous lounge singer turned spy- master.
A gripping chronicle of one of the most harrowing rescue missions ever undertaken as told in all its gritty detail by the heroes who made it happen, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan is both a first-class piece of military scholarship and a thrilling adventure story.
Footnote: Forced to retreat from the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur promised to return. Set three years later, in January, 1945, this is the true story of Army ranger Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci, who was chosen by MacArthur to lead an effort to liberate more than 500 American prisoners of war from the Japanese camp, Cabanatuan, part of the bloody and infamous Bataan Death March. The young colonel, eager to take on this mission first, however, had to undergo a vigorous guerrilla warfare training program, before leading his men, the 6th Ranger Battalion, on a hazardous rescue mission, thirty miles behind enemy lines, that they were not guaranteed to return from.
Books on Bataan, Corregidor, Prisoners of War of the Japanese, The Philippines, Hell Ships, Bataan Death March and more...
42 Months of Hell, by John Benjamin Howe
A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey
A Different Kind of Victory: A Biography of Admiral Thomas Har, by James Leutze (1981)
A London Diary, by Quentin Reynolds
A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero, by Wayne S Kirosaki (1995)
Admiral Kimmel’s Story, by Husband E. Kimmel
Alone He Went, by Anthony Richardson
American Caesar, by William Manchester (1978)
American Guerilla in the Philippines, by Ira Wolfert
American Guerilla, by (UNKNOWN)
And Somebody Gives a Damn!! by Paul L. Ashton, MD
And the Dawn Came up Like Thunder, by Leo Rawlings
Anywhere-Anytime: The History of the 57th Infantry (PS), by Col. John Olson (1991)
As I Remember: The Death March of Bataan, by Ed “Tommie” Thomas
Back from the Living Dead, by Bertram Banks
Barbed-Wire Surgeon, by Dr. Alfred Weinstein, MD, (1948, 1961)
Bataan & Beyond, by John S. Colem
Bataan Diary, by Paul L. Ashton, MD
Bataan, Corregidor, by Philippine Tourism
Bataan, The Judgment Seat, by Lt. Col Allison (1944)
Bataan, The March of Death, by Stanley L. Falk (1962)
Bataan Uncensored, by Ernest B. Miller (1949)
Beautiful Philippines, by Ampara S Lardizabal
Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerilla in the Philippines, by Ray C. Hunt, B. Norling (1986)
Before Bataan and After, by Frederick Marquardt (1943)
Bellamy Park, by Bradford Chynoweth (1975)
Belly of the Beast, by Judith L. Pearson (ORYOKU MARU)
Between the Thunder and The Sun, by Vincent Sheean (1943)
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946, by Theodore Friend (1965)
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis
Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945, by Dorothy Cave (1996)
Brief History of the Bulacan Military Area, by Gen. Alejo Santos
Bloody Shambles: The First Comprehensive Account of Air Operations Over South East Asia, December 1941-April 1942 (Vol I), by Christopher Shores, Brian Cull & Izawa Yasuho (1992)
Burma Surgeon Returns, by Gordon Seagrave, MD
Burma Surgeon, by Gordon Seagrave, MD
But Not in Shame, by John Toland (1961)
Cabantuan: Japanese Death Camp, by Vince Talor, John McCarthy
Captured, Japanese Internment of US Civilians, by Frances B Cogan
Clare Boothe Luce, by Wilfred Sheed (1982)
Clare Boothe Luce: A Biography, by Stephen Shadegg (1970)
Closing the Ring, by Winston Churchill
Commander in Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their Wars, by Eric Larrabee (1987)
Corregidor, by Alfonso J Aluit (1997)
Corregidor - Glory Ghost and Gold, by Milly Wood Kennedy
Corregidor, The End of the Line, by Eric Morris (1982?)
Corregidor: The Nightmare in the Philippines, by Eric Morris (1982)
Corregidor, The Rock Force Assault, by Lt Gen EM Flannagan, Jr
Corregidor: The Saga of a Fortress, by JH and WN Belote (1967)
Day of Infamy, by Walter Lord
Days of Infamy, by John Costello (1994)
Days of Anguish - Days of Hope, by Billy Keith (1972)
Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger's War in the Pacific 1942-1945, by Jay Luvaas (1972)
Death March: The Survivors of Bataan, by Donald Knox (1981)
Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders, by Carroll V. Glines (1964, 1981)
Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942 by William H Bartsch (1992)
Douglas MacArthur, by Clark Lee & Richard Henschel (1952)
Douglas MacArthur and the Fall of the Philippines, 1941-1942, by Duncan Anderson (1991)
Douglas MacArthur Reminiscences, by McGraw-Hill
Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, by Michael Schaller (1989)
Douglas MacArthur: The Philippine Years, by Carrol Morris Petillo (1981)
Eagle Against The Sun, by Ronald H Spector (1985)
Elpidio Quirino: The Judgment of History, by Salvador P Lopez (1990)
Escape from Corregidor, by Former Indiana Governor Edgar Whitcomb (USAAC LT)
Fall Forward, My Son, by Don Ingle
Fall of the Philippines, by Ward Rutherford (1963)
Far Eastern File: The Intelligence War in the Far East 1930-1945, by Peter Wlphick (1997)
Father Found, by Duane Heisinger (2003?)
Flying Fortress, by Edward Jablonski (1965)
Frank Murphy: The Washington Years, by Sidney Fine (1984)
Footprints in Courage, by Kristin Gilpatrick & Rick Peterson (about Alf Larson)
From Down Under to Nippon, by General Walter Krueger (1953)
From Omaha to Okinawa, by William Huie
Front Line General: Douglas MacArthur, by Jules Archer, Julian Messner
General Wainwright’s Story, by Gen Wainwright, Edited by Robert Considine (1946)
General Douglas MacArthur: Soldier-Statesman, by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1951)
George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939-1942, by Forrest C. Pogue (1965)
Ghost of Bataan Speaks, by Abie Abraham (1971)
Ghost Soliders, by Hampton Sides (2001)
GI Joe, by Dave Breger
Give Us This Day, by Sidney Stewart (1957)
Glad Adventure, by Francis B Sayre (1957)
Global Mission, by HH Arnold (1951)
Great Mistakes of the War, by Hanson W Baldwin (1950)
Guardian of the Empire: The US Army and The Pacific, 1902-1940, by Brian McAllister Linn (1997)
Guerrilla Submarines, by Ed Dissette & Hans Adamson
Guerrilla Warfare on Panay, by Col. Gamaliel Manikan
Guerilla Warrior, by Donald Smythe (1973)
Guests of the Sun of Heaven by Col Robert C Gar
Halsey, by Benis M. Frank
He Who Rides the Tiger, by Luis Taruc (1967)
Henry and Clare, by Ralph Martin (1990)
Hirohito: Emperor of Japan, by Leonard Moseley
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
History of the Second World War, by BH Liddell Hart (1970)
History of US Marine Corps Operations in World War II (Vol I) by Frank O. Hough
History of World War II (Canada), Armed Service. Memorial Edition
Horror Trek, by Robert W. Levering (1948)
Horyo: Memoirs of an American POW, by Major Richard Gordon
Hour of Redemption: The Ranger Raid on Cabanatuan, by Forrest Bryant Johnson (1978, 2002)
I Walked With Heroes, by Carlos P. Romulo (1961)
I Was There, by William Leahy (1950)
I Saw it Happen to China, by Hattie Love Rankin
I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, by Col. Carlos P. Romulo (1943)
I Served on Bataan, by Juanita Redmond (1943)
Imperial Japan 1800-1945, by Jon Livingston & Joe Moore
Imperial Tragedy, by Thomas Coffey
In Caesar's Shadow, by Paul Chwialkowski (1993)
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, by Stanley Karnow (1989)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies, by Howard and Phyllis Rutledge
Inside Asia, by John Gunther (1942)
It's All News to Me, by Robert Considine (1956) Japan: The Final Agony, by Alvin Coox
Japan’s Longest Day, by Pacific War Research Society
Japanese Destroyer Captain, by Capt. Tameichi Hara
Journey into War, by John MacVane
Laphams Raiders: Guerillas in the Philippines 1942-1945, by Robert Lapham & Bernard Norling (1996)
Leyte Gulf: Armada in the Pacific, by Donald Macintyre
Liberation of the Philippines, by Stanley Falk (1971)
Lonely Vigil, by Walter Lord
Love Letters to Mike, by Col Michael AC
MacArthur 1941-1951, by CA Willoughby & J Chamberlain (1956)
MacArthur as Military Commander, by Gavin Long (1989)
MacArthur, by Sydney L. Mayer
MacArthur in Japan, by Sydney L. Mayer (1971)
Manila Espionage, by Claire Phillips & Myron B. Goldsmith
Marcos of the Philippines, by Francisco S. Tatad
Mark of Shame, by Willi Heinrich
Men on Bataan, by John Hersey (1942)
Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan, by Fuchida & Okumiya
Miss “U”, by Margaret Utinsky
My Fifteen Years with Gen. MacArthur, by Col. Sid Huff
My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March, by Lester I. Tenney (1995)
Never so Few, by Tom T Chamales
Ninety Days of Rice, by R. Jackson Scott
Nothing by Praise, by Henry G. Lee (1948)
O’Donnell, Andersonville of the Pacific, by John Olson
Of Men and War, by John Hersey
Of Rice and Men, by Maj. Calvin Ellsworth Chunn (1946)
Officially Dead, by Cmdr CD Smith
Oh God Where Are You?, by Abie Abraham
Pearl Harbor, Ballantine’s History, by AJ Barker
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by Roberta Wohlstetter
People on our Side, by Edward Snow
Philippine Diary, 1939--1945, by General Steve Mellnik (1969)
Philippine Expeditionary Force by Gasei Watari (1943)
Pictorial History of the Philippines, by Pedrito Reyes & Grau-Santamaira Mercedes (1953)
Pictorial History of World War II, by Veterans Historical Book Service
Postmaster, by Corp Tom St George
Prisoners of the Japanese, by Gavan Daws
RAF Coastal Command, 1936-1968, by Chris Ashworth (1992)
Rainbow Over the Philippines, by James M Han
Ramparts of the Pacific, by Abend Hallet (1942)
Reminiscences, by Gen Douglas MacArthur (1946)
Robert Prince - Unpublished Memoirs, by Robert Prince, US 6th Army Ranger
Roosevelt in Restrospect, by John Gunther (1950)
Run Silent, Run Deep, by Cmdr. Edward L. Beach
Samurai: Flying the Zero in World War II with Japan's Fighter Ace, by Saburo Sakai (1963)
Santo Tomas, by Frederic H. Stevens
Santo Tomas, by James E. McCall
Sea Power in the Pacific, by Hector Bywater (1934)
See You in Yasukuni, by Gerald Hanley
Seven Years in Hanoi, by Capt Larry Chesle
Shogun, by James Clavell
Silent Victory: The US Subamarine War Against Japan, Vol I, by Clay Blair, Jr (1975)
Silent Victory, Vol II, by Clay Blair Jr
Silent Warriors of WW2, The Alamo Scouts behind Jap Lines, by Lance Q. Zedric (1995)
Sky Master, Douglas Aircraft, by Frank Cunningham
Some Survived, Manny Lawton (Oryoku Maru)
South to Bataan, North to Mukden: The Prison Diary of Brig. Gen. WE Brougher, by D Clayton James (1971)
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, by Barbara Tuchman
Subsunk, by Capt WC Shelford
Survival Amidst The Ashes, by Lyle W. Eads
Surviving Bataan & Beyond, by Caraccilo
Tabunan (Cebu Guerrillas), by Col. Manuel Segura
Tank, A History of the Armored Fighting Vehicle, by Ken Macksey
Taps for Private Tussie, by Jesse Stuart
Tell MacArthur to Wait, by Ralph Emerson Hibbs, MD
Ten Escape from Tojo, by Cmdr. McCoy, Col. Mellnik, Lt. Kelley
The Army Air Forces in World War II (Vol I), by WF Craven & JL Cate (1948)
The Art of Leadership, by SW Roskill (1964)
The Battle for Bataan, by Benjamin Apple
The Battle for Leyte Gulf, by C. Van Woodward
The Battle for Manila, by Richard Connaughton, John Pimlott, Duncan Anderson (1995)
The Battle is the Pay-off, by Ralph Ingersoll
The Battle of Bataan, by Robert Conroy (1969)
The Battling Bastards of Bataan, by Mel Sheya
The Brereton Diaries, by Lewis H Brereton (1946)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai, by Pierre Boulle
The Bridgesat Toko-ri, by James Nichener
The Democratic Roosevelt, by Rexford G Tugwell (1957)
The Divine Wind, by Inoguchi Nakajima
The Dyess Story,by Lt Col William E. Dyess (1944)
The Encyclopedia of Military History, by R Ernest Dupuy & Trevor N. Dupuy (1970)
The Fall of Japan, by William Craig
The Fateful Years: Japan’s Adventure in the Philippines, by Teodoro A. Agoncillo (1965)
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, by Adm. Robert A. Theobald
The Flip Side of Paul Armstrong, by Paul Armstrong
The Flying Tigers, by Russell Whelan
The Franklin Comes Home, by AA Hoehling
The Gathering Storm, Churchill
The General: MacArthur and the Man he Called 'Doc', by Roger Olaf Egeberg (1993)
The Good Fight, by Manuel Quezon (1944)
The Good Years: MacArthur & Sutherland, by Paul P Rogers (1990)
The Great Escape, by Paul Brickhill
The Great Raid, by William Breuer
The Greatest Aces, by Edward H Sims
The Grey Sears Under, by Farley Mowat
The Guerrilla and the Hostage, by John Olson
The Intrepid Guerillas of North Luzon, by Bernard Norling (1999)
The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, by AVH Hartendorp (1967)
The Landing at Vera Cruz, by Jack Sweetman (1968)
The Life and Death of a Jap General, by John Potter
The Long Day's Journey into War: 7 December 1941by, Stanley Weintraub (1991)
The Long Revolution, by Edgar Snow
The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics, by SE Finer (1962)
The Manila Hotel, by Beth Day Romulo (1987)
The March of Death, by Stanley L. Falk (1964)
The Moffat Papers: Selections from the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepoint Moffat, 1919-1943, by NH Hooker (1956)
The Mosquito Fleet, by Gern Keating
The Naked Flagpole, by Richard C Mallonee (1980)
The Pacific, Then and Now, by Bruce Bahrenburg
The Pacific War Revisited, by Gunther Bishof & Robert L. Dupont (1997)
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall (Vol 3), by Larry B Land & Sharon Stevens (eds) (1991)
The Pearl Harbor Cover Up, by Schuler & Moore
The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932, by William E Leuchtenburg (1958)
The Philippine Army, 1935-1942, by Ricardo Trota Jose (1992)
The Philippines Fight for Freedom, Jules Archer (1970)
The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg, by Arthur H Vandenberg Jr (1952)
The Rising Sun, Vol I and II, by John Toland
The Rising Sun in the Pacific, by Samuel Eliot Morison (1948)
The Road to Pearl Harbor, by Herbert Feis
The Road to War, by Richard Overy & Andrew Wheatcroft (1989)
The Roosevelt-MacArthur Conflict, by Stanley L. Falk (1988)
The Santo Tomas Story, by AVH Hartendorp (1964)
The Second World War - Asia & the Pacific by West Point Military History Series
The Second World War in the East, by HP Willmott
The Second World War: The Grand Alliance, by Winston Churchill (1951)
The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate, by Winston Churchill (1950)
The Second World War: Their Finest Hour, by Winston Churchill (1949)
The Sinners of Angeles, by Renato D. Tayag
The Story of Wake Island, by Col James PS Devere
The Taste of Courage, Vol III The Tide Turns, by Desmond Flower and Reeves
The Thousand Mile War, by Brian Garfield
The Two Ocean War, by Samuel Eliot Morison (1963)
The United States and Japan, by Edwin O Reischauer
The US Army in World War II, The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Japan, by Karl Dod (1966)
The US Army in World War II, The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan, by Alvin P Stauffer (1956)
The US Army in World War II, The Techinical Services, The Signal Corps: The Test, Dec 1941-Jul 1943, by George R Thompson, et al, (1957)
The US Army In World War II, The War in the Pacific, The Fall of The Philippines, by
Louis Morton (1953)
The US Marines in Northern China, by John H Whut
The Untold Story of Douglas MacArthur, by Frazier Hunt (1954)
The Vargas-Laurel Collaboration Case, by Teodor A. Agoncillo (1984)
The War in the Pacific: Strategy and Command: The First Two Years, by Louis Morton (1962)
The War Journal of Major Damon “Rocky” Gause, by Damon R. Gause (1999)
The War Lords of Washington, by Bruce Catton
The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914, by Paul Kennedy (1979)
The Years of MacArthur, Vol I (1880-1941), by D Clayton James (1970)
These Men Shall Never Die, by Lowell Thomas (1943)
They Fought Alone, by John Keats (1963)
They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific (1941-42), by Walter Edmonds (1951)
They Were Expendable, by WL White (1942)
They Were First: The True Story of the Alamo Scouts, by Lewis Hockstrasser (1944)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, by Capt Ted Lawson
Three Came Home, by Agnes Newton Keith
Thunder out of China, Theodore H White and Annalee Jacoby
To Inspire and To Lead: The Papers of General Vincente Lim 1938-1942, by Vincente Lim (1980)
Today’s Revolution Democracy, by Ferdinand Marcos
Tojo, The Last Banzai, by Courtney Browne
Total War Vol II, War in Asia, by Peter Calvocoressi & Guy Wint (1972)
Triumph & Tragedy, Churchill
Triumph in the Philippines, by Robert Ross Smith (1963)
Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L Stimson, by Elting E. Morison (1960)
USAFFE, by Major Alvin C. Poweleit, MD (1975)
US Foreign Policy, by W Lippman (1943)
War in the Shadows (The Guerrilla in History, Vol I and II) by Robert Asprey (1975)
War Plan Orange: The US Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945, by Edward S Miller (1991)
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, by John Dower (1986)
Warrior in White, by Lucy Wilson Jopling (1990)
Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault, by Claire L. Chennault (1949)
We Band of Angels, by Elizabeth M. Norman
We Die Alone, by David Howarth
We Prisoners of War, edited by Tracy Strong
We Remained, by Col. RW Volckmann (1954)
We Were There at the Battle of Bataan, Benjamin Apple (1957)
Wings as Eagles, by Wanda Kellett
World War II, The Rising Sun, by Arthur Zich
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