| Title: |
Cecil Jesse Peart
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| Local code: |
AFC/2001/001/1205
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| Document type: |
Memoir
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
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| Collection: |
Veterans History Project
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| Description: |
Under immensely daunting conditions, Pharmacist's Mate Cecil Peart kept notes for a journal beginning in December 1944 while he was being transferred from a prison in Manila to Japan. It took three ships to make the trip; the first two were strafed by American planes and sunk. Peart cared for his best friend, wounded in one of the attacks, until he died, and like many other survivors, he scavenged clothing off the newly deceased before they were buried at sea. His final destination was Mukden, Manchuria, and work in a factory. Of the over 1600 men who boarded that first boat, the S.S. Oryoku Maru, out of the Philippines, fewer than 400 lived to tell of their ordeal.
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| Extent: |
63 pages
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| URL: |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01205/pageturner?ID=pm0001001
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Peart, Cecil Jesse, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
18-Dec-1915
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Oakdale, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Navy
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, December 8, 1941-April 9, 1942; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; China; Japan; Korea; Manila, Philippines; North America; Philippines; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; China; Japan; Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, December 8, 1941-April 9, 1942; Korea; Manila, Philippines; North America; Oral history; Philippines; Prisoners of war; U.S. Navy; United States; United States--Armed Forces; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0032971-36085
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