A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, "Prisoner of the Rising Sun" offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives. When Japanese aircraft struck airfields in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Col. Lewis C. Beebe was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's chief supply officer. Promoted to brigadier general, he would become chief of staff for General Wainwright in early March, 1942. From his privileged vantage point, Beebe kept diary...
A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, "Prisoner of the Rising Sun" offers new ev...