The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II by Steven Trent Smith
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Overview: By 1944, forty Americans-missionaries, escaped POWs, and sugar growers-had been hiding from the Japanese for nearly three years in the mountainous Negros Island. They moved frequently from one primitive hideout to the next, ever in danger, subsisting on what little the locals could spare. When word came that a U.S. sub, the Crevalle, was on its way to save them, they endured a hundred-mile trek through jungle and swamp to the rendezvous point. But their rescue was just a cover for a mission of much greater strategic importance. As MacArthur and Nimitz pushed the Japanese back, island by island, they put to flight Admiral Koga Miniechi, commander of Japan’s powerful Combined Fleet. Miniechi carried with him the detailed plans for the "decisive battle" at sea that Japan had been working on for decades. But his plane crashed and the plans washed up on a Philippine beach. They soon found their way to an extraordinary American guerrilla leader, who risked everything to get them to the rendezvous with the Crevalle. Now all that remained was for the sub to survive a harrowing 1,500-mile voyage through enemy-infested waters with the Americans and secret plans aboard. Based on firsthand interviews with many of the surviving refugees and Crevalle crewman, The Rescue presents an unforgettable account of this daring mission, a compelling true-life drama.
Genre: Non-Fiction , History
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