Inventory of the Thomas W. Davis, III Manuscript: undated

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Inventory of the Thomas W. Davis, III Manuscript: undated

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Thomas W. Davis, III arrived in the Philippines in July 1940 for a two-year tour of duty with the 59th Coast Artillery (CA) expecting a relatively easy tour. Instead, Davis found himself in the middle of the Pacific theater of World War II. His two years of duty became five years, three of those spent as a prisoner of war. The Thomas W. Davis, III manuscript of "A Former POW Looks Back" chronicles Davis' World War II experience as an American battery commander on Corregidor Island and as a prisoner of war held by the Japanese. The manuscript includes his observations of life as an Army junior officer, and American military preparedness before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor and the military's initial war mobilization in the Philippines. It also contains a vivid account of the fighting on Corregidor before American forces stationed there surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 and the dismal conditions prisoners of war faced.

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Davis, Thomas W

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According to the biographical information contained within the manuscript, the parents of Thomas W. Davis, III lived in Brentwood, Tennessee . Davis had one brother named W.A. Davis . Thomas Davis graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1935. He graduated from the Academy on June 12, 1939 and received a second lieutenant's commission in the Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) of the U.S. Army . While a student at West Point,...

United States. Army. Coast Artillery Regiment, 59th

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