Bataan Death March

<p><strong>Bataan Death March</strong> originally published as <em>The Dyess Story </em>in 1944 is the moving World War II account of William Dyess (1916-1943) a US Army Air Force pilot who was captured by the Japanese in the fall of the Philippines. Dyess then took part in the infamous Bataan Death March and was a POW at Camps Cabanatuan and O'Donnell before his transfer and eventual escape from the Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao. His horrific story one of the first to be published in the U.S. during the war shocked and angered the nation. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Sadly on December 22 1943 Dyess was killed in a training accident in California while testing a P-38 fighter; he was only 27 at the time.</p>