July 2, 1942
What a night! Last evening most of us Fil-Americans untied our bunk rolls and put up ow mosquito nets. The Filipino nurses however, did not… Read More »July 2, 1942
What a night! Last evening most of us Fil-Americans untied our bunk rolls and put up ow mosquito nets. The Filipino nurses however, did not… Read More »July 2, 1942
Happy, happy day! The Japanese commandant issued orders this morning that the hospital unit, composed of doctors, nurses, corps men, and patients, was to be… Read More »July 1, 1942
Phooey on my luck, I have a honey of a case of dengue and believe it’s high time to make out my last will and… Read More »June 27, 1942
We moved out of that hellhole of Malinta Tunnel today. We are now at the badly bombed Topside hospital. It has been simply heavenly to… Read More »June 25, 1942
Bataan medics establish “hospital” across road. They hold sick call and make diagnoses. They have no medicines other than gentian violet, which is specific for… Read More »15 June 1942
At Waldorf-Astoria. Story of Lt. Colonel Andres Soriano: Soriano said that it did a great injustice to Aguinaldo to call him a fifth columnist. The… Read More »June 13, 1942
At Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. I saw Quezon and Osmeña at 9 a.m. They both seemed depressed, and the latter was absent-minded. I learned the… Read More »June 12, 1942
Heavy rains make camp a quagmire. We dig drainage ditches for dysentery-ridden O’Donnell group. Paths to their latrines lined with feces each morning —men just… Read More »7 June 1942
At night at the Shoreham Hotel. Quezon told me the story of his visit to Corregidor in 1935 after he had been inaugurated as the… Read More »June 5, 1942