Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March
Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March—a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton...
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Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished.But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart. St. Petersburg Times "Some Survived is a story of unrelieved horror, far worse than any fictional tale every imagined...yet it does not convey despair. On the contrary, it is inspirational....It makes one glad to be alive. —St. Petersburg Times
List of IllustrationsList of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Fall of Bataan12The Death March143Camp O'Donnell254Cabanatuan325Move to Davao486Davao Penal Colony (DAPECOL)657Red Cross Packages698Ten Men Escape729Another Escape8110Back to Cabanatuan10111Tragedy at Sea11312Ordeal by Water13813Hell Ship #1 - The Oryoku Maru14914Hell Ship #2 - The Enoura Maru18215Hell Ship #3 - The Brazil Maru19816Japan at Last21117The Last Move218Epilogue - Coming Home234App. I245App. II259Index293
\ St. Petersburg Times"Some Survived is a story of unrelieved horror, far worse than any fictional tale every imagined...yet it does not convey despair. On the contrary, it is inspirational....It makes one glad to be alive. \ —St. Petersburg Times\ \ \ \ \ Charleston News & Courier"Shows that the human spirit can soar like an eagle from the depths of hell on earth."\ —Charleston News & Courier\ \
