"LATE SUMMER of 1941
and
MY WAR WITH JAPAN"

by Weldon Hamilton, 2001



Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Hardcover & Paperback - 164 pages

Viewed through a prism of wonder and enlightenment, Weldon Hamilton's telling of his story gives new meaning to the word, unique.   His refusal to damn his captors for the horrors they inflicted; to travel ass an observer of himself and the fallen to the end of their journey; to remain the boy from Kansas destined to experience the ultimate adventure thrust upon him for unknown reasons by unknown forces, is truly UNIQUE. Sometimes naive, sometimes joyful, oft3n in despair and most times disappointed in his fellow man, Weldon Hamilton remained skeptical and perplexed, yet hopeful and expectant of one fine day being delivered from a real time, real life Dante's Inferno.

Review by Oren Hays, a Friend



Weldon C. Hamilton fought in the battle of Bataan, was taken prisoner on April 9, 1942 and made the infamous Death March where over 10,000 men died.   He was hel in the Philippines for over two years, first in Camp O'Donnell, where 25,000 men died in less than two months.   Two years later he was taken to Japan on one of the notorious Hellships and was 30 miles from Nagasaki where he witnessed the Atomic Bomb.   He retired from the Air Force as a Chief Warrant Officer CWO-4 in 1969.   His decorations include the Presidential Unit Citation with two oak leaf clusters and the Bronze Star.


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