Like many other young American men during the depression-era
1930s, Gene Boyt entered Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian
Conservation Corps. Later, after receiving an ROTC commission in
the Army Engineers and a bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering from the Missouri School of Mines, Boyt joined the
Allied forces in the Pacific Theater.
While building runways and infrastructure in the Philippines in
1941, Boyt enjoyed the regal life of an American officer stationed
in a tropical paradise--but not for long. When the United States
surrendered the Philippines to Japan in April 1942, Boyt became a
prisoner of war, suffering unthinkable deprivation and brutality at
the hands of the ruthless Japanese guards.
One of the last accounts to come from a Bataan survivor, Boyt's
story details the infamous Bataan Death March and his subsequent
forty-two months in Japanese internment camps. In this fast-paced
narrative, Boyt's voice conveys the quiet courage of the generation
of men who fought and won history's greatest armed conflict.
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