- Poetry Page - Japanese POW Camp Fukuoka 17 - mansell. com
THE BATTLING BASTARDS OF BATAAN POEM by Frank Hewlett (1942) We're the battling bastards of Bataan; No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces And nobody gives a damn Nobody gives a damn THE VANQUISHED SPEAK by Fred W Koenig, 1st Lt U S A
- Frank Hewlett - Wikipedia
Hewlett's limerick poem, "the Battling Bastards of Bataan" came to symbolize that campaign: [2] And nobody gives a damn! Departing Corregidor before it fell, at the instruction of Douglas MacArthur, Hewlett followed Frank Merrill in the China-Burma-India theater, then coined the term Angels of Bataan [1]
- The Battling Bastards of Bataan - Pacific Eagles
On the 4 th of January 18 P-40s were assembled for an attempt to intercept the now-daily bombing raid on Bataan Initially the plan was for all of the fighters to fly south to Del Monte field on Mindanao after the mission, but the plan soon descended into farce
- The Battling Bastards of Bataan - America in WWII magazine
At 2 a m on April 9, 1942, Filipino and American troops who had been trapped on the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines’ Luzon island for three months began exploding their TNT storehouses and hundreds of thousands of rounds of small-arms ammunition and artillery shells to keep them out of Japanese hands
- Frank Hewlett, journalist poet: The Battling Bastards of Bataan
“Battling Bastards of Bataan” was a limerick poem penned by Frank Hewlett, Manila bureau chief for UP and the last reporter to leave Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese
- The Battling Bastards of Bataan: A Chronology - amazon. com
Extremely detailed day-by-day chronological history of the entire campaign in the Philippines during the first six months after America’s entry into the war Considerable information on units, personalities, combat, and more
- The Battling Bastards - Our Literary Journey
The Battling Bastards Poem We’re the battling bastards of Bataan; No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces And nobody gives a damn Nobody gives a damn ~ by Frank Hewlett ,1942 One Survivor’s Story
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