P.O.W. A Sailor's Story.
Language: English
Published by Vantage Press:, 2012
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131 pages. "In this historical, political, analytical, and deeply personal story of a disgracfully blundering hierarchy, inadequate weapontry, lack of even rudimentary supplies, and offical incompetence, and miscaluculation at every turn, Poness recounts the events that led up to be taken as a prisoner of the Japanese and of his harrowing years as a P.O.W." FINE SOFTCOVER, signed by the editor. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- P.O.W. A Sailor's Story.
- Author
- Poness, Ralph C. and Edited By Ralph J. Poness.
- Publisher
- Vantage Press:
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Editor.
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0533164478
- ISBN 13
- 9780533164479
- Seller catalogs
- WORLD WAR II
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About the Author
Ralph Carlo Poness was born in the village of Fort Montgomery, New York on January 10, 1915. He graduated from Highland Falls High School and went to attend Clarkson College in Northern New York State though ended up transferring to New York University. In 1937 he joined the Navy and was stationed in the Phillipine Islands where he was captured by the Japanese after their defeat if the Americans at Bataan and Corregidor. Ralph spent the entirety of the war in Japanese Prison Camps. Upon his release, he returned to New York and continued working for the Navy for the next eleven years. Ralph C. Poness was honored with a Purple Heart for having endured Prisoner of War camps and for sustaining wounds both physical and mental. Poness passed away in January 2002. He is survived by his two sons and five grandchildren.
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