April 8/42
Things are very bad, our lines are cracking and it will not be long before we fall. I talked with several from the front today… Read More »April 8/42
Things are very bad, our lines are cracking and it will not be long before we fall. I talked with several from the front today… Read More »April 8/42
Big ammunition dump afire at Marivales [Mariveles]. Took one of my Lts. [Bruce Nixon] to the tunnel in an uncontrollable and violent state of combat… Read More »April 8, 1942
Today starts the 5th month of this mess and a new era for me. It is wonderful here. Hardly know a war is going on.… Read More »April 8, 1942
Intro from memoirs: But one day I had a scare. Old Pio Duran, who believed in the Jap-sponsored Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, if there… Read More »April 8, 1942
The last few days in Bataan there were many admissions of malaria & sane dysentery. Surgical wards were one crowded with medical cases. A few… Read More »April 8, 1942
[It has been suggested] that we should not order a fight to the bitter end [in the Philippines] because that would mean the Japanese would… Read More »April 8, 1942
Over 1500 admissions today. The firing is quite near now. It won’t be long now. Eddie Wernitznig & some of his detach came in today… Read More »April 8, 1942
First raid on the Rock—unknown number of HBs and 13 DBs—How many HBs shot down-one to No. 1 gun of James. From then on raids… Read More »December 29th, 1941 to April 8, 1942