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Author Freeman, Sally Mott, author.

Title The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / Sally Mott Freeman.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xiv, 588 pages, [16] unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Map on endpages.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-574) and index.
Contents April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- "This force is bound for Tokyo" -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape-and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- "Proceed to Kwajalein" -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, Lilac Hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties -- and sea power -- No peace at Lilac Hedges -- Final hours -- Epilogue -- Afterword.
Summary Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
Subject Cross, Barton, 1918-1945.
Cross family.
Cross, Helen, 1883-2009.
Mott, William C., 1911-1997.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.
Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisons and prisoners, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Philippines.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Indexed Term Cavite Navy Yard
Other Form: Online version: Freeman, Sally Mott. Jersey brothers. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] 9781501104176 (DLC) 2017015769
ISBN 9781501104145 (hardcover)
1501104144 (hardcover)
9781501104169 (pbk.)
1501104160 (pbk.)
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