April 8, 1942
The enemy’s front lines are practically at our back door. I took my bath late this afternoon at the ravine, and a large piece of… Read More »April 8, 1942
April 1942
Wednesday April 8, 1942
Things don’t look good at all — that is they just look worse. News from up front is that most sections are in a confused… Read More »Wednesday April 8, 1942
April 8, 1942
My tour of sentry duty ended at five this morning. Ramon Cabrera relieved me. As I was about to sleep, I overheard the PC lieutenant… Read More »April 8, 1942
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
April 8, 1942
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
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
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
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
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