[fso301]

Toland’s spedific source is not revealed, which I suppose could mean he learned of the parody at some point before the publication of the book and thought it would make a nice addition to his version of events. The sources given for the whole chapter does include "interviews with . . . numerous survivors of the Bataan Death March," and 'Bataan Deatch March,' doctoral thesis of Stanley Lawrence Falk." so maybe one of those is the source.

I read both of those but it was so many ages ago that I no longer have either book. "The Rising Sun" was a 1970's publication while "But Not in Shame" came out in the early 1960's. It's too bad Toland didn't cite a source. The stanza you printed is a word-for-word match to a stanza from Miller's 1949 ballad in "Bataan Uncensored" I posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2830494/posts?page=36#36

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I hate to mention wikipedia, but the entry there on MacArthur relates the Dugout Doug episode with a citation to what I guess is a three volume bio of the general by D. Clayton James. Vol. 2, pp 65-66. Anybody familiar with that?