Published Works

“Answer Japan by Buying War Bonds, El Pasoans Urged.” El Paso Herald-Post, January 28, 1944 (accessible in archives of Ancestry.com).

Arrington, Leonard J. The Great Basin Kingdom: Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.

Ashton, Wendell J. “A Spirit of Love.” Instructor, April 1947, 174–76.

Ballard, M. Russell. “The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead.” Ensign, October 2018.

Benson, Lee. “About Utah: World War II Hero Harold Poole Showed U.S. How to Live.” Deseret News, March 14, 2010.

Bolitho, Hayes. “The Hayes Bolitho Japanese Story, Parts 1–6,” Hawkins (Texas) Holly Lake Gazette, a biweekly online newspaper, September 26, 2009–February 13, 2010, http://www.hlrgazette.com/2009-articles/85-september-26-2009/785-local-ww-ii-herojapanese-pow-1-of-6.html.

Burton, John. Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006, Google e-book.

Call, Lowell Eliason. “Latter-day Saint Servicemen in the Philippine Islands: A Historical Study of their Religious Activities and Influences Resulting in the official Organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1955. http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4579/.

Cave, Dorothy. Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941–1945, 2006 ed. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 2006.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. Roster. “Korea (Chosen) POW Camp: Jinsen ‘Inchon.’” http://mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/other/korea-main.html.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. “Nagoya 11B POW Camp American (48 men) roster.” http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/Nagoya/nag_11_nihon_soda_iwase/nag_11_yanks.html.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. “Nagoya POW Camp No 11 (Iwase) Nihon Soda SCAP Investigation Report, 29 January 1946.” http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/Nagoya/nag_11_nihon_soda_iwase/nag_11_scap_investigation.html.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. “Nagoya #5-B Yokkaichi (formerly Osaka #17)” (main). http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/Nagoya/nag_5_yokkaichi/nag_05_yokkaichi_main.html.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. “Pacific POW Roster.” http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/pacific_pow_roster.html.

Center for Research, Allied POWS under Japanese. “Yokkaichi #5_b Nagoya Area.” http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/Nagoya/nag_5_yokkaichi/nag_05_yanks.html.

Christensen, Allen C. (as told to Renee Homer). “Two Pieces of Paper Saved Me,” Ensign, February 1991.

Christensen, Allen C. “The Pacific Theater.” In Saints at War: Experiences of Latter-day Saints in World War II, edited by Robert G. Freeman and Dennis A. Wright, 300–301. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2001.

Christensen, Allen C. “Patriarchal and Priesthood Blessings.” In Saints at War: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Valor, edited by Robert G. Freeman, 252–53. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2013.

Christensen, Doris Farnsworth. Obituary, Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), March 16, 2013, 4A.

Clark, David L., and Bart J. Kowallis. “The Fate of the Davao Penal Colony #502 ‘Branch’ of the LDS Church, 1944.” BYU Studies 50, no. 4 (2011): 109–35.

Columbia University, Asia for Educators. “Japan’s Quest for Power and WWII in Asia.” 2009. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1900_power.htm.

Colvard, Patrick B. “Obituary.” http://obit.funeralchoices.com/obitdisplay.html?task=Print&id=1331007.

Davey, Robert G. Letters to family, November–December 1944, published in “Faith Sustains Interned Mormon Captain.” Deseret News, March 24, 1945.

Davey, Charles Edmund. “Obituary.” Salt Lake Tribune, September 1, 1941. Also accessible at familysearch.org under documents page for Charles Edmund Davey (KWCH-BQC).

Daws, Gavan. Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific. New York City: William Morrow and Company, 1994.

Dielman, Gary. “The WWII Sinking of the ‘Shinyo Maru.’” 2015. Accessible at Baker County Library District, https://www.bakerlib.org/photo-archive/dielman-local-history-files.html.

Dyes, William E. The Dyess Story: The Eye-Witness Account of the Death March from Bataan, Japanese Prison Camps and Escape. New York City: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1944.

Elsmore, Ray T. “Famed Aviator, Native Utahn, Dies on Coast.” Deseret News, February 19, 1957, B-9, film #0164622.

Erickson, James W. “Oryoku Maru Roster. West-Point.Org. http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/Erickson_OM.htm.

Freeman, Robert C. Saints at War: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Valor. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2013.

Freeman, Robert C., and Dennis A. Wright. Saints at War: Experiences of Latter-day Saints in World War II. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2001.

Garner, William T. Unwavering Valor: A POW’s Account of the Bataan Death March, 2014 ed. Springville, UT: Plain Sight Publishing, 2014. Google e-book.

Gladwin, Lee A. “American POWs on Japanese Ships Take a Voyage into Hell.” Prologue Magazine 35, no. 4 (Winter 2003). The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/hell-ships-1.html.

Goodliffe, Charles LaFount. “Obituary,” Standard Examiner, March 17, 2012.

Heimbuch, Raymond C. I’m One of the Lucky Ones: I Came Home Alive. Crete, NE: Dageforde Printing, 2003.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. New York City: Random House, 2010.

Hinchman, B. L., and Robert W. Wood, editors. The Japan Christian Yearbook: A Survey of the Japan Christian Movement in Japan through 1952. Tokyo: The Christian Literature Society of Japan, 1953. A copy of the relevant excerpt from this book is also available at familysearch.org under the stories section of the page for Peter Nelsen Hansen (KW86-JCJ).

Holmes, Linda Goetz. Unjust Enrichment: How Japan’s Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs. Lanham, MD: Stackpole Books, 2001.

Holmes, W. J. Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1979.

Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985.

Jacobsen, Gene S. We Refused to Die: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Bataan and Japan, 1942–1945. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004.

Julian, Suzanne. “Led by the Spirit.” BYU devotional address, February 11, 2014. https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/suzanne-julian_led-spirit/.

Kimball, Spencer W. The Miracle of Forgiveness. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1969.

Komatsu, Keiichiro. Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of “Magic.” New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Lawton, Manny. Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived through It. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1984.

“LDS Group in Jap Prison Described.” Deseret News, January 20, 1945.

Lewin, Ronald. The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japan. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

Lukacs, John D. Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

McCracken, Alan. Very Soon Now, Joe. New York City: Hobson Book Press, 1947.

Mellnik, Stephen M. Philippines War Diary, 1939–1945, revised ed. New York City: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1969.

Mellnik, Stephen M. “The Life and Death of the 200th Coast Artillery (AA).” Coast Artillery Journal, March–April 1947. http://www.angelfire.com/nm/bcmfofnm/history/mellnik_history.html.

Michno, Gregory F. Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Morton, Louis. The United States Army in WWII / The War in the Pacific / The Fall of the Philippines, commemorative ed. Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1992.

Nordin, Carl S. We Were Next to Nothing: An American POW’s Account of Japanese Prison of War Camps and Deliverance in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997.

Nuttall, James Arle. “Kamas Doctor Dies at 33 of Heart Ills.” Salt Lake Tribune, December 25, 1952.

Okazaki, Chieko N. “Rejoice in Every Good Thing.” Ensign, November 1991.

Parkinson, James W., and Lee Benson. Soldier Slaves. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.

Pearson, Judith L. Belly of the Beast: A POW’s Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship “Oryoku Maru.” New York City: New American Library, 2001.

Richmond, Clint. Fetch the Devil: The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America. Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, imprint of University Press of New England, 2014.

Shively, John C. Profiles in Survival: The Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines during World War II. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012.

Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York City: Doubleday/Random House, 2001.

Sneddon, Murray M. Zero Ward: A Survivor’s Nightmare. San Jose, CA: Writers Club Press, 2000.

“Story of Bataan Horrors Revealed: Japs Torture, Starve, Murder Americans.” El Paso Herald-Post, January 28, 1944. Accessible in archives of Ancestry.com.

“Three Utahans Missing in Army Action.” Salt Lake Tribune, May 29, 1942.

Toland, John, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. New York City: Random House, 1970.

Top, Brent L. “What Is This Thing That Men Call Death? Latter-day Saint Teachings about the Spirit World.” BYU Campus Education Week address, August 18, 2010.

United States Army. A Brief History of the U.S. Army in World War II. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1992.

U.S. Department of State, Office of Historian. “Milestones: 1899–1913, The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/war.

U.S. Department of State, Office of Historian. “Milestones: 1937–1945, Japan, China, the United States and the Road to Pearl Harbor, 1937–41. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/pearl-harbor.

West-Point.org. “Hell Ship Information and Photographs.” Updated January 17, 2005. http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/photos.htm.

West-Point.org. “Taikoku Maru Roster.” Revised January 16, 2015. http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/TaikokuMaru/Taikoku-Index.htm.

West-Point.org. “Roster of Allied Prisoners of War Believed Aboard Shinyo Maru when Torpedoed and Sunk 7 September 1944.” http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/ShinyoMaruRosterJPW.html.

Whitcomb, Edgar. “Introduction.” Profiles in Survival: The Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines during World War II, by John C. Shively, 1–9. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012.

Whitney, Clarence B. “Graveside Service Announcement for Major Chauncey B. Whitney.” Salt Lake Telegram, July 18, 1949.

Wilson, Ralf T. “Obituary.” Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID), March 24, 2009.

Wilson, Ralf T. “Prisoners of War.” In Courage in a Season of War: Latter-day Saints Experience World War II, edited by Paul H. Kelly and Lin H. Johnson, 322–28. Privately published, 2002.

Military Records

Army of the United States. “Oath of Office, (Temporary),” of George Robin Brown, January 20, 1942, National Archives and Records Administration, 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138 (hereinafter, “NARA Records”).

Casualty Report, Form 52(b). Medical Department, U.S. Army, George, R. Brown 0-890150, January 27, 1942, NARA Records.

Clinical Record, Brief, Form 55a. Medical Department, U.S. Army, Bataan General Hospital, TWC, on George R. Brown 0-890150, NARA Records.

Enlistment Record, National Guard of New Mexico. George Robin Brown, December 19, 1940, Physical Examination at Place of Enlistment, NARA Records.

McBride, Allan C., Brigadier General, GSC, Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Philippine Department in the Field, United States Army, Special Orders No. 19, Extract, Paragraph 9, January 20, 1942, NARA Records.

National Guard of New Mexico. Enlistment Record of George Robin Brown, Serial Number 20,842,469, December 19, 1940, NARA Records.

Official Statement of Military Service and Death of George R. Brown, 0 890 150 by Major General Kenneth G. Wickham, The Adjutant General, NARA Records.

Report of Decorations Board. War Department, May 21, 1946, NARA Records.

USS Paddle (SS263). Report of Fifth War Patrol, B. H. Nowell, Lt.-Cdr. USN, September 7, 1944, 7–10.

Veterans Administration. “Problem Oriented Initial Assessment and Plan” for Franklin T. East, by Sam Atterbury, Social Worker, Veterans Administration Medical Clinic, Tucson, Arizona, April 18, 1985.

Wickham, Kenneth G., Major General, United States Army, The Adjutant General. Official Statement of Military Service and Death of George R. Brown, 0 890 150, NARA Records.

Family History Manuscripts and Interviews

Baclawski, Arthur M. “Personal History.” Unpublished manuscript in family records, a copy of which was provided to author by Charles Baclawski.

Bray, Rex D. “War Memories, 1941–1945.” Unpublished manuscript, 1998.

Brown, Ruby S. “Personal History of Ruby Spilsbury Brown.” Undated and unpublished personal history manuscript in possession of author.

Brown, Ruby S. “This Is a Very Sacred Story.” Ruby S. Brown Collection, Church History Library, Vol. 4, Item H.4,. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, December 16, 1953.

Brown, Ruby S., and Nelle B. Zundel. “George Robin Brown . . . His Story.” Unpublished manuscript, July 27, 1977.

Christensen, Allen C., “My Life Story.” Unpublished private manuscript, April 1961, copy provided to author by Cody Christensen.

Davey, Robert Gray. “Last Talk.” Fireside talk given by Davey after the war, transcript provided to author by Marilyn Springgay.

East, Franklin T. “Army Life of Franklin T. East.” Unpublished manuscript, November–December 1977.

Goodliffe, Charles LaFount. “Interview with Charles Goodliffe by Sam Orwin.” Undated copy of interview transcript provided to author by Bonnie Goodliffe.

Goodliffe, Charles LaFount. “Recollections of Charles LaFount Goodliffe.” Transcript of interview by David Morrell with Charles Goodliffe, October 23, 2003. Unpublished copy of transcript provided to author by Bonnie Goodliffe.

Hamblin, Orland K. “My Experience in the Service and as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese.” Unpublished manuscript, June 1956.

Hyer, Fern Brown. “Classy Grandmas All Come from Chupe.” Unpublished manuscript in possession of author.

Patterson, James. “Saving the Legacy: An Oral History of Utah’s World War II Veterans.” Interview by Luke Perry, Tape No. SL-283 & 284. Salt Lake City: Fort Douglas Museum and Marriott Library, Special Collections Department, University of Utah, August 15, 2001

Rohlfing, Carl Dennis. “Carl Dennis Rohlfing.” Undated manuscript provided to author by Dennis Autry.

Springgay, Marilyn Beth Davey. “Lt. Col. Robert Gray Davey, 2 May 1915–19 July 1968.” Unfinished life history of Davey written by his daughter, who provided a copy to author.

Wilson, Ralf T. “A POW Spiritual Experience.” Talk given at a prayer meeting in the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, November 13, 1998.

Zundel, Nelle B. “A Problem Solved.” Unpublished manuscript, copy in possession of author, April 2, 1992.

Zundel, Nelle B. “George Robin ‘Bobby’ Brown.” In The Life and Posterity of Alma Platte Spilsbury, compiled by Viva Skousen Brown, 297–98. Provo, UT: Privately published, 1983.

Zundel, Nelle B. “Story of the Family of George Andrew and Ruby Vilate Spilsbury Brown.” Unpublished manuscript prepared for Brown family reunion, June 1961.