The Doomed Horse Soldiers of Bataan: The Incredible Stand of the 26th Cavalry

by Raymond G. Woolfe Jr.

This is the story of the last mounted American troops to see action in battle, when, in late 1941, six-hundred men and their horses held off the Japanese invasion of Luzon in the Philippines just long enough to allow General Douglas MacArthur's forces to withdraw to Bataan. The 26th continued to fight on horseback until late February 1942 when, tragically, they were ordered dismounted and their horses and mules transferred to the Quartermaster's center...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442245344
• ISBN13: 9781442245341
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"