Gene S. Jacobsen is emeritus professor of education at the University of Utah. He and his wife live in St. George, Utah. He is one of sixteen men still living from the sixty-five members of the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron who returned home.
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Prologue 1. Attack on Pearl Harbor 2. Enemy over Clark Field 3. Japanese Invasion of the Philippines 4. The Orange Plan 5. Raw Recruits 6. Goodbye, Good Luck, and God Bless You 7. Christmas 1941 8. The Battle for Bataan 9. Surrender 10. Death March out of Bataan 11. Camp O'Donnell 12. The Tayabas Work Detail 13. Bilibid Prison 14. Cabanatuaan Prison Camp 15. Mother's Door in '44 16. Exodus from the Philippines to Japan 17. Camp No.17, Omuta, Japan 18. Still Alive in '45 19. Senso Yamu! 20. Waiting for the Yanks 21. Returns to the Philippines 22. Home at Last Epilogue Author's Chronology Roster of the 20th Pursuit Squadron, April 9, 1942 About the Artist, Benjamin Clark Steele
"Dr. Gene Jacobsen's remarkable work, We Refused to Die, is a rare find. Assembled within only months after the author had been released as a POW of the Japanese during World War II, this compelling account has a unique freshness, power, and vividness rarely seen in documentaries of the Pacific Conflict. It is hard to put the book down."--Harold S. Madsen, professor emeritus, Brigham Young University "One of the most readable and insightful accounts of an American prisoner of war in the entire World War II literature."--Allan Kent Powell, Utah State Historical Society