All day rain. Raw damp & cold. Held a council meeting tonight. Things look a little desperate. Information from the outside plainly indicates food becoming almost unobtainable…. There isn’t a chance in a million of any Red Cross Relief ship or any thing of that kind…. There is every reason to believe that as far as we are concerned, our country has scratched us off the list and charged us up to loss.
Thomas H. Hayes
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy; imprisoned in Bilibid Prison, Manila from July 2, 1942 until December 13, 1944; became chief surgeon in in October, 1943. Perished on the prison ship Oryoku Maru in 1945.
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