Personal account of a veteran's World War II experiences on Bataan and Corregidor and the rigors of captivity inflicted by the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Commemorates the New Mexico 200th Coast Artillery, defenders of Bataan and Corregidor who suffered the Bataan Death March and three and a half years as prisoners of the Japanese.

Gives background, U.S. Congressional action on former POW lawsuits, media coverage, and Japanese reaction.

Eyewitness account by Dr. Paul Ashton, medical staff of the US Bataan force, contained in two books, Bataan Diary and a section called And Somebody Gives a Damn.

Russell A. Grokett's biography of survival of the Bataan Death March and three years as a Japanese Prisoner of War, from April, 1942 to August, 1945.