Very cool pics...thanks for the reminder!
My grandmother's cousin was Edgar Whitcomb, and he wrote the book "Escape From Corregidor." If anyone hasn't read this book, you won't put it down.
Author Name: Whitcomb, Edgar D.
Title: ESCAPE FROM CORREGIDOR.
Publisher: Allan Wingate, London, (1959), first impression.
274 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w maps. "....the story of a B.17 navigator who narrowly escaped capture more times than one would be inclined to believe. When the Japanese took Bataan, he fled in a rowboat to Corregidor. When the Japanese captured Corregidor, he swam under cover of darkness for eight hours back to the mainland. There, after weeks of wandering in the snake-infested jungle and sailing at night down the heavily patrolled coast, they got him. His name was Edgar Whitcomb, U.S.A.F. His captors interrogated him. 'Johnson', he said. 'My name is Johnson, mining employee'. From that moment, the imaginary personality of Johnson grew, proliferated, and was actually inhabited by Whitcomb for nearly two years. Not once, during hunger, beatings nor the long grey hopelessness of prison life, was the character of 'Robert Johnson' shaken. Finally, as 'Robert Johnson' he escaped, and as 'Robert Johnson' he arrived back in the United States, only to be greeted by the F.B.I., passed on to the Pentagon for grilling, and finally interned as a 'civilian' for the rest of the war - until he worked his way out of that one too."
Keywords: WORLD WAR II CORREGIDOR PACIFIC THEATER OPERATION JAPANESE JAPAN
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