Annotated draft from "Back to Cabanatuan" chapter in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived

Item

Identifier

https://documentinghistory.clemson.edu/studentprojects/admin/item/635/

Title

Annotated draft from "Back to Cabanatuan" chapter in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

Source

Box 2, Folder 5, Mss 260, Manny Lawton Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina.
http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/manuscripts/Mss260Lawton.pdf

Rights

In Copyright

Date

Undated

Description

This is an annotated, typewritten draft page from Chapter 10, "Back to Cabanatuan," in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived. It describes Lawton's reunion with several Clemson men in the prison camp at Cabanatuan, among them Henry D. Leitner, with whom he developed a close friendship. Leitner would not survive the war.

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
Prisoners of war

Creator

Lawton, Manny, 1918-1986

Publisher

Clemson University

Relation

Letter from Capt. Manny Lawton to his parents - March 6, 1942
Annotated draft from "The Fall of Bataan" chapter in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived
Annotated draft from "The Death March" chapter of Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived
Captain Lawton is Jap prisoner
Letter from Capt. Manny Lawton to his parents - Dec. 13, 1944

Item sets

Clemson Men in World War II

Site pages

Fighting Tigers

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