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• Prologue
• From medical school to the military, May 1939-December 1940
• The route to the Philippines, December 1940-February 1941
• Manila, February 1941
• Sternberg General Hospital in peacetime, February 1941-December 1941
• Sternberg at war, December 7, 1941-January 7, 1942
• General Hospital #2, Bataan, January 7, 1942-April 9, 1942
• Prisoners of the Japanese, April 9, 1942-June 1, 1942
• Cabanatuan I, June 1942
• Cabanatuan II, July 1942-December 1942
• Cabanatuan III, 1943
• Bilibid revisited, February 1944
• Enoura Maru, February-March 1944
• Camp Kamiso, Japan, March 1944-June 1945
• Camp Bibai, Japan, July 1945-August 1945
• Freedom, August 1945
• Different paths
• Home again.

"The grisly procession of dead had grown alarmingly...men who had endured the terrible ordeal of Bataan, who were 10,000 miles from home, and who then died in the most miserable conditions. For me, as a doctor, the most distressing thought was that they could have been saved, almost without exception, by proper diet and medical care." Imprisoned by the Japanese in 1942, Lieutenant John Bumgarner, U.S. Army Medical Corps, attempted to care for the survivors of the Bataan Death March. A lack of medical supplies, coupled with poor diet and unsanitary living conditions, made the task virtually impossible. Dr. Bumgarner was imprisoned until the Japanese surrender in 1945, all the while attending to his fellow prisoners of war who often had little chance of survival. His powerful story is a strong reminder of the brutality of war and captivity.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)