Conduct Under Fire by JOHN A. GLUSMAN (2005, Hardcover)
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Author John A. Glusman has written a masterful book about the horrible
conditions Allied POWs faced as prisoners of the Japanese. In
particular, this book concentrates on the lives of four American
doctors; Lt. George Ferguson, Lt. Fred Berley, Lt. John Jacob Bookman,
and Lt. Murray Glusman. All were stationed in the Philippines when the
Japanese attacked shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
After enduring the defeat of Bataan, and later Corregidor, some
78,000 American and Filipino POWs were forced to march over seventy
miles in what became known as the Bataan Death March. For the next
three and a half years, Ferguson, Berley, Bookman, and Glusman were at
the mercy of their Japanese captors. Food and water rations were
virtually nonexistant, beatings were frequent, and the work was long
and hard. The atrocities committed by the Japanese can only be
described as barbaric, and the doctors did the best they could to help
the sick and wounded with virtually no medical supplies at all.
Eventually, the doctors were loaded aboard Japanese "Hell Ships";
overcrowded freighters converted into ships to carry POWs to mainland
Japan. The conditions on the ships were worse than in the camps. Men
were placed in vastly overcrowded and stifling holds, given virtually
no food or water, and were unable to even lie down due to the crowding.
But the greatest fear faced by the POWs was attack by American
submarines. Once torpedoed, the Japanese were known to machine gun the
surviving POWs in the water. Indeed, George Ferguson died when the ship
he was on was torpedoed.
Once in Japan, the remaining three doctors were once again placed
in concentration camps where they tended the wounded and sick. But as
time wore on, they soon began to see hundreds of American B-29 bombers
winging above them. They surmised that the Americans must be close to
winning the war. However, they still had to endure the firebomb raids
of Kobe and Osaka that virtually destroyed the cities. However, after
the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, the
Japanese finally surrendered, and John, Murray, and Fred were finally
able to return home.
This is a spectacular book. John Glusman does an excellent job of
describing the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and the
atrocities that the POWs faced at the hands of the Japanese. My
favorite part of the book was the extremely vivid description of the
firebombing raids on Japan in the spring of 1945. I give this book my
highest recommendation. Read and see how four ordinary men from the
heartland of the United States managed to survive against a brutal and
unforgiving enemy.
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